Local Hour: What Did You Have For Dinner?

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[18] Hey, guys.

[19] Oh, man, what a day.

[20] What a day.

[21] Look, we're running lean today.

[22] Yeah.

[23] Still dealing with the after effects of a vice.

[24] virus that swept the entire studio, plus people on vacation, but I think we have what it takes here.

[25] We've got the right stuff.

[26] Yeah.

[27] I have a question.

[28] I'm going to start with Mike Ryan.

[29] Mike, what did you have for dinner last night?

[30] I, what did I have for dinner?

[31] Oh, I cooked a Turkish street cart turkey bowl.

[32] Oh, very nice.

[33] Jessica, what did you have for dinner last night?

[34] Lehman made me chicken thighs and Brussels, carrots, and, uh, you know, and, uh, you know, I think that was it.

[35] Chicken thighs, the most underrated part of the chicken.

[36] Roy, what did you have for dinner?

[37] I baked the chicken breast and had carrots.

[38] Okay.

[39] Two for two on chicken.

[40] A lot of bunnies here.

[41] A lot of chicken carrots, yeah.

[42] What did you got?

[43] I had spaghetti meat sauce.

[44] Okay.

[45] You know what Noel Al's had?

[46] He had the Bronzino.

[47] Oh, yeah.

[48] Nice and grilled, ladies and gentlemen, with a little squirt of lemon on it.

[49] All right.

[50] I have questions.

[51] Because I think it was weird because normally...

[52] What, that's set up?

[53] Well, that was also odd.

[54] And he didn't tell us what he had for dinner.

[55] Oddball, by the way.

[56] But so a lot of people enjoyed Noah Liles' failure.

[57] I understand why.

[58] But that usually goes against the Olympic spirit.

[59] But I've seen an extra dash of spice from people that come from basketball.

[60] Oh, really?

[61] Why?

[62] I hadn't noticed that at all.

[63] You know what I did notice?

[64] So if you don't know, Noel Isles, who won the gold in 100 meters, which isn't his strong suit.

[65] We've been talking about this whole time.

[66] But it does give him the distinction of fastest man in the world.

[67] Absolutely.

[68] Now, the interesting thing is even if you didn't know that, that 200 meter is his main event, right?

[69] That's his wife.

[70] The other event is his mistress.

[71] If you watched 100 meter, that was his quote, Jessica.

[72] We didn't just come up with that.

[73] I was going to say, how did you come up with that?

[74] I didn't.

[75] Siciliano did yesterday.

[76] No, Siciliano didn't.

[77] That's what Noah O 'Iles said.

[78] Noah Liles did a lot of talking.

[79] Before the race, he did a lot of meme posting.

[80] And this was, as Siciliano again pointed out yesterday, for all the Wheaties boxes, this was where he can become Carl Lewis, especially if he backs up all that talk.

[81] This is, he becomes one of the all -time greats.

[82] Yes, he does.

[83] And so if you watched the 100 meter, you can tell because he is a notorious slow starter.

[84] And then as the race goes, he picks up.

[85] speed and he closed out in the 100 meter.

[86] In the 200 meter heats, he lost in the semifinals, I believe, but it doesn't matter.

[87] You have to be top two in order.

[88] But he doesn't usually lose heats.

[89] Yes.

[90] And his face kind of said something that his mouth and fingers weren't.

[91] So, but he runs a race.

[92] He comes in third.

[93] And then afterwards, we learned that he tested positive for the COVID -19 virus.

[94] And everyone's like, oh my gosh.

[95] He must have been so exhausted and everything.

[96] And they had to come out and bring out the wheelchair.

[97] Do we have a picture of the wheel?

[98] There he is.

[99] Oh, my gosh.

[100] The poor guy.

[101] How did he even run the race?

[102] If you didn't, if you just watched the race, you would say, yeah, clearly there was something wrong with him.

[103] But here's the problem.

[104] This was him moments before the race.

[105] Doing his signature, I'm the most energetic man in the world routine.

[106] Look at him, folks.

[107] He's jumping.

[108] He's prancing.

[109] He's dancing.

[110] Arms out.

[111] He's basking in the energy of the, Thousands of people to start the fonts.

[112] Jennifer Love, Hewitt, what are you waiting for, spin?

[113] Yeah.

[114] I just want to point out that no allows is asthmatic.

[115] So, no one.

[116] And the wheelchair is probably a condition of that.

[117] Sure.

[118] These are all super - Wheelchair for asthma?

[119] Yeah, yes.

[120] Yeah, I mean, can you walk?

[121] Tony, I'm mildly asthmatic.

[122] You can run?

[123] I am mildly asthmatic.

[124] I can tell you right now, nothing triggers an asthma attack like getting my ass beat.

[125] I swear to God.

[126] All of us, like, if I lose at something, oh, I can't breathe at all.

[127] Mildly.

[128] Man, I'm telling you, that whole video of me with the jump shot, I was, I had to hospitalize you.

[129] You were in a wheelchair.

[130] You did.

[131] Why didn't you tell us?

[132] We would have completely dropped that whole bit, by the way, if you had just told us this was during an asthma attack.

[133] It hit immediately up to the ball released.

[134] It was amazing.

[135] Right after it.

[136] American Ninja Warrior, the same thing happened there?

[137] Ninja Warrior, when I took that first step, all of a sudden, the asthma started creep up on me. I mean, athletes know their body pretty well, and he was gassing himself up, not just right before the race, but sending out memes before the race.

[138] I mean, he oozes confidence, and he's certainly not oozing confidence at the end of that race.

[139] If he was, if he felt at all impacted by COVID -19 physically, don't you think he would have hedged a little bit?

[140] He didn't cut any of that stuff back.

[141] Maybe he didn't know exactly until he got into it.

[142] I think it's a very fair thing.

[143] We're still learning so much about this virus.

[144] I do find it funny that we've gone from canceling the Olympics and shifting it a year to like, okay, yeah, you go ahead and race with it, track and field athlete.

[145] And then he did an interview post -race, and he had a mask on and on NBC with the mic, and I said, you've got to trash that mic immediately, right?

[146] Given what we know about the river, I don't think, you know, the safety of the athletes, the health and safety of the athletes is really as paramount as it used to be.

[147] I was actually surprised to learn that there weren't any COVID protocols at the this Olympics.

[148] I kind of assumed that if you tested positive, you wouldn't be allowed to participate, but apparently it's left up to the team if you can participate or not.

[149] So I think the obvious concern is, did he get anyone else sick?

[150] Because if he wants to compete, anyone, I think any one of us would try to if we were in that position.

[151] And these are all athletes that have had parts of their careers significantly impacted by COVID, not just if they were in the Tokyo Olympics, but they've had to deal with all of these travel restrictions and getting sick and recovering and like all of these like things that we've all had to do with too.

[152] Worst timeline to be a professional athlete, especially in those non -revenue sports, it's a terrible time for them.

[153] And some athletes miss the Olympics altogether because the peak of their athleticism was 2020 and you shift at 2021 and there goes my shot.

[154] Now, Jessica, you asked if he got anybody else sick and there was actually a outbreak of people who were just sick to their stomach.

[155] That's everybody who hates on USA basketball, you MFers, double middle fingers.

[156] gonna do it because we're live on air right now, but double middle fingers to all of you because guys, we got the game.

[157] First of all, I know Noah Liles was sick watching that.

[158] Oh yeah.

[159] It's so weird.

[160] Oh my God.

[161] Hold on.

[162] Wait, can we just like unpack this mindset?

[163] Because I think there's a lot of fans that are Noah Lyle's haters because they're NBA supporters.

[164] God damn right.

[165] If you're an NBA supporter, you're either a Yokevic like defender or you're a Novak?

[166] Yeah, whatever is it.

[167] Joker.

[168] The Joker.

[169] The Joker.

[170] They're both jokes.

[171] Which one?

[172] I knew I was going to f*** that up.

[173] You had your bets.

[174] Or you're an American NBA fan rooting for Team USA.

[175] But I feel like there's all these sort of branches coming off of this tree right now.

[176] I'm very confused what the mindset is.

[177] It's like Game of Thrones.

[178] I get it.

[179] I understand why NBA folks and basketball folks wanted to go at Noah Liles.

[180] I'm curious of Noah Liles after that failure turned on the Serbia -USA game and became the biggest Serbian basketball fan on the planet.

[181] Mike, let me tell you, I was watching that game, and I don't think I've ever, ever, other than watching South Sudan, I don't think I've ever cared about Olympic basketball as much as I was like, come on, man. Get Embed out of there!

[182] LeBron had that, first of all, no, Embed in the second in that.

[183] In the second, yeah, but there was plenty of frustrating International Ball in Bede there.

[184] I'm just telling you, like, you know, first of all, shout out to Grant Hill, because he had the foresight.

[185] He knew this day.

[186] day was coming.

[187] If you needed him for one game, it was against Serbia, and he came in and he delivered.

[188] But when LeBron hit that layup that was like this, he could have gone up with his left hand, but he went up with his right hand instead, and they went up one, I think.

[189] That's his offhand, as you know.

[190] Yeah, he's quick to remind us with his right hand as his offhand.

[191] Dude, I let out the loudest, most partisan, most xenophobic cheer.

[192] I was so ecstatic, man. I need to feel in those ways, I need Team USA to go up against a team that you respect with high stakes.

[193] International basketball, especially for the U .S., it's such a skewed perspective because they just kind of sleepwalk through the qualification process.

[194] For the World Cup in soccer, it's hard to get to the World Cup.

[195] The actual tournament, what's known as the World Cup, that's actually the finals.

[196] They call the World Cup finals.

[197] The qualification process takes years and years, and it's very hard.

[198] For Team USA, they sleep walk through the entire thing, they usually somewhere along the way automatically qualify, so you don't really have the connection points to those teams.

[199] You need them to actually you need to fear.

[200] And you feared yesterday because they were live underdogs.

[201] They were plus 250 at one point entering that fourth quarter and then they go on this incredible run.

[202] When my boy hit that four point play I was like, oh my God, this is over.

[203] Who's your boy?

[204] I don't know the guy's name.

[205] Abramovich.

[206] Some vich, somewhere.

[207] Yeah, Abramovich.

[208] He was, he was, he was killing.

[209] He was ripping from three.

[210] But at that point, I was like, oh, I think that put him down 14.

[211] And I was like, oh my God, this can't be happening.

[212] So that was, I think that was in the second half.

[213] Teamers had cut it to like five or six.

[214] And then we're like, okay, now, playtime's over.

[215] And then Serbia went on that run again.

[216] I'm like, oh, crap.

[217] Like, this is going to need a vintage performance.

[218] And we got a vintage performance from LeBron James and Steph Curry at the same time.

[219] So damn cool to see them cooking at the same time with steaks.

[220] I never thought I would say this, right?

[221] Dream Team 92, obviously all the legends there.

[222] Redeemed Team 2008, like that forcefulness and whatever.

[223] But I think yesterday was the greatest moment in USA basketball history because we got to see LeBron and Steph Curry at the same time.

[224] Being great on the same team.

[225] It felt like.

[226] While Mello was coaching them.

[227] I'm going to, I think I'm so good to go with Redeem.

[228] team because that that Spanish team was really special.

[229] That's not to say the Serbian team isn't special in its own right.

[230] They probably have the best basketball player on the planet in their own right.

[231] The international basketball because of stuff like the dream team has totally changed.

[232] But that redeem team narrative was legitimate.

[233] And Spain was almost every bit as good as that team.

[234] And it took Dwayne Wade coming off the bench.

[235] You had Kobe.

[236] And time has been kind to that redeemed team.

[237] Mello, LeBron, peak of the powers, LeBron.

[238] though yesterday it kind of seemed like it was peak of the powers lebron triple double yes triple double in olympic history but we got to see kd steff lebron all cooking at the same time and it was it was genuinely special it's really cool to watch lebron kick out to step curry and step curry realize i i'm rarely this open and i'm just going to absolutely cook this guy what was he nine of fourteen from three nine of fourteen from three thirty six points on twelve of nine of nine shooting overall, and he could have had more.

[239] Steve Kerr pulled him out.

[240] The record, I think, for Team USA's 37 is mellow.

[241] He could have had more.

[242] But, I mean, it was, I can't describe.

[243] And it's the combination of, wow, what a great game.

[244] Obviously, Yoko, as you said, it's the best player in the world, but they had to, you know, because in a 40 -minute game, we talked about this yesterday.

[245] It's like, having depth only means so much.

[246] Like, if you got a guy who can play.

[247] 38 out of 40 minutes, like, what are you going to do?

[248] Having said that, with the Noah Liles thing hanging over, it made it so much more, like, the stakes, that's why I say it's the best ever because.

[249] Because of Noah Liles.

[250] Because the stakes have never been higher.

[251] Like, they could, if they lost that game, dude.

[252] Dude, I think the stakes were higher against Spain.

[253] No way.

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[268] Don Lebertard.

[269] Offhanded to me and Chris before we started playing.

[270] He's like, seems like that Tony guy gets triggered.

[271] pretty easily.

[272] And I laugh the hardest out loud I've ever laughed in my life.

[273] Stugats.

[274] Triggered pretty easily.

[275] That guy.

[276] That's so ridiculous.

[277] It's the most incredible.

[278] It's crazy.

[279] You know what I've realized?

[280] People love putting their athletic insecurities on me. Don't project that shit on me. You suck.

[281] Not my problem.

[282] Chris Cody leaves a game early.

[283] Oh, let's support Chris Cody.

[284] Whatever the f*** billy does, let's support that.

[285] Mike Ryan, let's go to Buffalo, all of us go to Buffalo.

[286] Like, give me a real.

[287] You're totally proved that you weren't at all unhinged.

[288] Thank you.

[289] Thank you.

[290] This is the Dan Lebatar show with a Stugat.

[291] I want to get into the mindset of someone that roots against Noah Lyles, but also roots against Team USA because they like Yokic so much.

[292] Because that person definitely exists and probably there's more of them than we can imagine.

[293] I might be sitting in the studio with them because it means got such a complicated.

[294] relationship.

[295] Dude, I always root for USA Basketball.

[296] The only time I don't South Sudan is the only time I'm like, I want South Sudan.

[297] But it seemed as though your rooting interest wasn't necessarily so much to the USA as it was anti -Noa Liles.

[298] No, yeah, I should adjust that.

[299] I honestly don't care most of the time who wins.

[300] But like yesterday was one of those ones.

[301] I'm like, oh, is this what it feels like to be a fan?

[302] Like, were you like, I can't have my team lose because then I got to walk in to this room tomorrow or later today and have to hear it from this dude.

[303] And so like the combination of him losing And there isn't a Serbian Bill Simmons I think you would have been fine There is a look so what Jessica's referring to And we got the tweets From Kevin Durant responding Who was cooking all night And all morning in Paris Good for him man Excellent job by Kevin Durant here You got someone saying cheering against Team USA You mean like all those Americans Who are making fun of no lot It was not winning gold in his latest race Good old double standards And my man KD said to all you Nuggets fans.

[304] Nobody gives a y 'all.

[305] Lames believe is the best player in the league.

[306] Players got major respect for the Joker.

[307] We don't worship him like y 'all do, but most are in all of his brilliance.

[308] Trolling you cornballs for rooting against us is part of the game.

[309] Deal with it.

[310] He did the athlete apart, which is a part, one word, as opposed to a part.

[311] He also went on, someone tweeted this exact thing he's talking about has existed since the exception of the NBA.

[312] You think people weren't worshipping MJ and Byrd and being divisive then?

[313] I hate to be that guy.

[314] But it only seems like it's a problem now, like guys like Janus and Yokitur getting the same treatment.

[315] And K .D. responds, that's what y 'all do.

[316] Y 'all clowns.

[317] Use players to push these corny agendas y 'all got.

[318] This is a brotherhood, fam.

[319] You're not a part of.

[320] Again, there's the athlete apart.

[321] It's a problem now because social media got you clowns walking around with your chest out like you mean something.

[322] You don't.

[323] Your takes don't matter.

[324] He told you, Wes.

[325] That's another one.

[326] It's an odd way to prove to somebody their take doesn't matter.

[327] Your takes don't matter in all caps.

[328] Yeah.

[329] He gives off a lot of I don't care.

[330] Here's the last one.

[331] You read the actions and you very clearly cares and that's fine.

[332] That's his fuel and I'm not going to talk anymore because he'll hop in my mind.

[333] Does he still follow you?

[334] Yeah, he does.

[335] Learned a lot about U .S. sports culture today.

[336] A lot of flexing for only just beating a nation of 6 .6 million in a sport they invented.

[337] Acting like Yokage fans are committing treason.

[338] We here would never do this to a small Pacifica nation in rugby league.

[339] We blah, blah, blah.

[340] Nobody cares, Josh Barnett, wherever the hell you're from.

[341] Katie says, let's talk about the fan culture that's been created recently.

[342] A lot of huge egos who believe they are the reason for the advancement of a sport.

[343] A lot of idol worship, a lot of hate and division based off wins and losses, a lot of disrespect of the work being put in by these incredible athletes, mostly by people who don't know what it takes to be good at anything.

[344] Is that the athlete a lot?

[345] Besides talking.

[346] It was the first one.

[347] Go do something and get out the way?

[348] Too long didn't read.

[349] Oh.

[350] That's a paragraph.

[351] This is a nuance quote tweet always.

[352] It's just the bulk of it.

[353] It just always, it always gets skimmed.

[354] You think KD paid for the blue check?

[355] No. No?

[356] I don't think so because LeBron didn't pay for the blue check.

[357] No?

[358] He made a point to not and then he just got one.

[359] This all started with an account that tweeted.

[360] Serbia just took the most talented team in the history of the planet to the wire with a metal on the line.

[361] Team USA was a 16 point favorite.

[362] The whole country should be proud with a picture of Yokic.

[363] And then Kevin Durant replied, where are you from?

[364] And that was at like 5 a .m. local time in France.

[365] Oh, wow.

[366] But like that's a good point.

[367] I mean, I mess with it.

[368] Like, he, credit to him.

[369] Sometimes he'll, he does a lot of hopping in DMs, too, from what I've heard.

[370] Because I've had friends that, like, they put tweets out.

[371] there and he'll just he won't put it out for public consumption like and he'll go at folks you're sitting next to someone who's who's been a victim of the the kddm he goes he goes he goes that for hours i mean yeah had an asthma attack immediately after a wheelchair whatever fuels him man it's it's a joy to watch him play it's a joy to watch this team i don't think it's the most talented one though oh i don't think it's the most talented one i'm just saying that was the most invested i've ever been including 2008 which by the way i worked for team usa 2008 i got a t -shirt for the gold medal by the way like yeah yeah where is it it's at home it's it's one of the it's literally one of like a lapel pin team USA won gold medal at the Olympics you have an Olympic ring tattoo because I think that qualifies if you work for like team USA you get you can do that oh man look I've if if I if I start traveling no I didn't this is all this is all remote this is all from from Phoenix I'm like I basically yeah I had an asthma attack I couldn't get on the plane for that you get the Olympic logo tattooed on yourself no man Oh, come on.

[372] Yeah, that's what we're saying.

[373] Like, if he traveled, though, I think he qualifies.

[374] He can do that.

[375] Oh, yeah, absolutely.

[376] I didn't travel, so I did it all from the safety of my home, or my office, I should say.

[377] Steve Kerr should get it.

[378] Steve Kirsch could get it.

[379] It is a pretty buttoned -d -up operation.

[380] We notoriously here in this country don't fund our Olympic programs, but Team USA basketball is a pretty decent operation.

[381] Shout out to the man who kicked that ball rolling, which is Jerry Colangelo.

[382] He got it to a place where they were making money, fundraising and stuff like that.

[383] And in turn, it is funded a bunch of other programs, the youth programs, the women's program, all that stuff.

[384] That's Jerry Colangelo, who got that going, and Grant Hill is continuing that legacy.

[385] Again, USA beat Serbia 95 -91 after being down double digits for a lot of that game.

[386] And I was elated.

[387] Elated and combining that with Noah Liles in that wheelchair.

[388] So strange.

[389] The first thing I thought of was like, you know what's the difference in Noel Liles and NBA players?

[390] our guys in wheelchairs walk away with the gold or with poop in their pants and a gold though and a gold ball I find the Noah Liles hate like a bit strange because he did win the 100 meters it doesn't matter Jess I'm putting blinders on right now if anyone can get down with the idea of an athlete really emphasizing an injury or a health scare because they lost it's the NBA it's NBA players what are you talking about oh come on what am I talking about what are you talking about I also think Noah Liles is so great for the Olympics and for track and field.

[391] There was a press conference.

[392] I think we have video of it of Tobogo, who won the 200 meter.

[393] He's from Botswana, and he was asked, like, do you think you could be the face of athletics?

[394] And his answer was so funny.

[395] I hope we have this video.

[396] I think we have the video.

[397] By the way, I love the idea that his name is Tobogo, because it reminds me of Trinidad and Tobago.

[398] We apparently don't have the video.

[399] But I would love to hear the perspective of someone that is, like, in their starting gate as Noah Liles is doing the Jennifer Love Hewitts man. I'd be like, please stop.

[400] What is this?

[401] I'd be so insulted by that display.

[402] And I know he does it all the time, but he's got to be met with so many eye rolls from the other athletes.

[403] Mike, like congratulations, your nose hair faster than me. What is this?

[404] Mike, what would you do if you were running the 200?

[405] I would take an asthma attack probably.

[406] If you saw him, you saw him coming out and you did that.

[407] I'd be pissed.

[408] I'd be pissed.

[409] Let's say, like, if I were an athlete of comparable speed, I'd like to say, like, I'm going to, you know, get out of this starting block so well, because I think it, I mean, I do kind of, the athlete that I am with like a Louisiana -shaped bruise on my hip because I missed a beer league soccer ball and crashed into the pole.

[410] I do kind of think Alphabet that day I did I mean I got my hands to it But then I ricocheted off and then I ran into the pole It's actually pretty nasty I'll show you during the break But there are times like you know You get in heated arguments Some guy talks shit to you And I do kind of feel like I lock in a little bit more That's the kind of gamer I am I mean If I had seen him come out and do all that stuff I would say no no your asthma The COVID it might have drained you You hate her Shut up I mean I mean is a You want a goal.

[411] It's weird, though, when the team USA.

[412] Does not matter.

[413] He hates USA soccer.

[414] You know what?

[415] Where are you with that now?

[416] And they didn't want to hold.

[417] Well, now, I don't know if you guys talked about this, but there was a rumor that Thierry -on -Ree might be the next manager.

[418] Yeah, I'm not crazy about that.

[419] I'm going to tell you right now, if you want to get me back.

[420] Why?

[421] Because, man, that's...

[422] I like Tieri -on -Ree just as much as the next guy.

[423] I think he's a great personality.

[424] I think he was a wonderful player.

[425] Got away with a handball, knocked out Ireland from World Cup qualification.

[426] I am part Irish.

[427] So I resent him for that.

[428] But who is the Emma Hayes of men's soccer?

[429] Because that's what men's team needs.

[430] Yeah, they do.

[431] And there's rumors that they're talking to Pochitino right now to take over the men.

[432] I do, let's not even get to my poach takes because he was a Chelsea manager and I got plenty of them.

[433] He's a career loser.

[434] And I, even though he does, he's a career loser.

[435] He's a career loser, dude.

[436] He found a way to like not really rack up trophies with PSG.

[437] Like, that's amazing when you consider how, how game the system is for PSG and that.

[438] League, but I do want to concentrate a little bit about U .S. women's soccer because this is a massive game, and it's great storylines, because Marta is an icon, one of the greatest soccer players ever, men or women, and she has her send -off game in the gold medal game against Team USA, which Emma Hayes, it may be frustrating sometimes.

[439] I know from a substitution perspective, and we can dive in a little bit deeper, Jess, but you know how big of an Emma Hayes fan I am because I used to work with Chelsea.

[440] How are you feeling headed into this gold medal match?

[441] Honestly, I had very little expectations for this tournament because the team has had such a small amount of time with Emma Hayes so far to get prepped for this Olympics.

[442] They've only played a handful of games together.

[443] So I was like, okay, if they make it out of the group stage and win one knockout round game, I think that would be a really good, like, a good follow -up from last year where this team was like at rock bottom a year ago when they lost to Sweden in the World Cup.

[444] I'm curious who Amin is rooting for, though, because I know he's a big Brazilian men soccer fan and a team USA hater in a lot of sports.

[445] not basketball.

[446] So what do we do with women's soccer?

[447] I love U .S. Women's National Team.

[448] I think they deserve a lot more resources, given that they are successful and they are popular, unlike the guys on the other side of the aisle.

[449] But this is a tough one for me because I typically root for U .S. women's national team, but Brazil is Brazil, man. Are you a big Marta guy?

[450] Oh, come on, man. It's a legend.

[451] She's amazing.

[452] If they lose this one, I think that everyone that is a fan of the game can acknowledge, like, this is a really cool way for Martyr to go out.

[453] I'm definitely rooting for USA here.

[454] Like, I'm also a big fan of them.

[455] But, like, that would be one small thing that would make it the loss, not sting as hard.

[456] Plus, you get a silver metal out of it.

[457] Yeah, there's a joy in winning a silver.

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[499] But for video, let's focus on Kenny Bednerick's face here.

[500] Teammate slash opponent because they do race against each other, but they're also on Team USA together and do relays together.

[501] I think for me, I can be the face of athletics because I'm not an arrogant or a loud person like Noah.

[502] So I believe Anwar is the face of athletics.

[503] That's a co -sign.

[504] Yeah, you know, absolutely.

[505] One of my favorite stories is if you watch, like, Kobe getting punched by Chris Childs.

[506] Oh.

[507] Like.

[508] In the throat.

[509] Yeah, in the trot, right?

[510] If you watch that video, go back and watch Shaq.

[511] And it's like, Shaq is, there's so many fights I've seen where Shaq just comes in and start shoving people.

[512] And when Chris Child's two -piece of Shaq is just like chilling back there.

[513] I said, that speaks volumes.

[514] It's the same thing with Caitlin Clark earlier this year when she got roughed up by Kennedy Carter.

[515] It's not that she got roughed up or whatever.

[516] It's like nobody on her team even reacted or flint.

[517] I said, that speaks volumes, man. And so right there, my man, like not being offended in any way.

[518] And finding the humor in it.

[519] Oh, my God.

[520] But it's like the classiest put down ever, right?

[521] He literally's asking, you want to be the face of athletics?

[522] I can't be because I'm not a jackass.

[523] Like, no, that's why he's the face of athletics.

[524] It was so matter of fact.

[525] And, yeah, Bennerick has, like, made comments about Noah Liles in the past, too.

[526] And, like, just Noah Liles obviously is known for his antics as well as for being incredibly speedy and fast.

[527] And I also heard yesterday he will not be competing in the 4x100 relay because of COVID.

[528] I think he, like, kind of announced it, but made it not definitive in his announcement.

[529] But it seems like that probably wouldn't be a good idea.

[530] So TBD, if they're able to break that, like, 4x1.

[531] curse because the men's four by one relay team hasn't been doing well lately.

[532] I kind of feel for Noah Liles as someone that I don't follow track and field outside of these major events.

[533] And I know the characters there, but he is the world's fastest man and somewhat a punchline at the exact same time.

[534] And I don't understand how you manage that.

[535] You're the world's fastest man and everyone's having to go at you for not being fast.

[536] By his own doing though.

[537] Yeah.

[538] Everybody's taking a hack out of who did.

[539] Exactly.

[540] Who did this?

[541] He's got a lot of fans too.

[542] Like I don't think everyone hates him.

[543] I I think he's got a lot of fans, and I think people do find his whole thing, like, pretty funny and entertaining.

[544] And, like, look, we're talking about men's track for, like, an entire 30 -minute segment today.

[545] And I think it's because he's such a huge personality, like, the guy who beat him in the 200 said.

[546] But, Jess, I want to say, like, if you think about Usain Bolt, who's always going to be the standard.

[547] Like, we talked about him for damn your entire shows.

[548] We still talk about him.

[549] Because there's a way to do it that's fun and not aggravating.

[550] Yeah.

[551] And it's not like he lacked for.

[552] confidence he was also though like one of the great like no one will ever do what he did so but kind of sets himself apart from just one one win in the Olympics beyond beyond the performance though like as a character he like there's a positivity that Usain Bolt got out like you guys were losing the Usain Bolt and be like oh you know he's a they like them too you know I agree with you I think though I'm just saying like I don't think it's a universal like we all hate this guy I do I do see that he has a lot of fans.

[553] Yeah, but people that follow the NBA certainly feel some kind of way about him.

[554] I know we're in the days of standem and you have to feel really passionately about it.

[555] I do kind of, I have some sympathy for what he's going through right now because, but at the same time, I do find the humor in that you're to blame.

[556] Like, if you just did all this humbly, and if you knew that you were sick, like, why aren't you putting out precautionary measures beforehand to kind of like let people know that you're going through some stuff?

[557] But he wasn't changing his demeanor at all.

[558] He kept true to himself.

[559] I would have rather let the whole Olympics end and then reveal, you know, by the way, I was tested positive for COVID, but I still tried and did it out there, whatever.

[560] It didn't seem like he wanted it to get out from what I tell.

[561] What about getting in the wheelchair?

[562] What's that?

[563] I think he was having a legit, like he couldn't breathe an attack afterwards.

[564] He also couldn't win.

[565] Okay.

[566] Yeah, he didn't win.

[567] I'm just There are other things going on there.

[568] And we got to acknowledge that COVID does probably compound.

[569] It's a respiratory illness.

[570] That definitely compounds his asthma.

[571] And it also compounds as an event goes on.

[572] If you're before an event, and then 20 seconds later, it's so bad.

[573] I've got to be in a wheelchair.

[574] But before it, I can jump and hop into everything.

[575] Before he hadn't sprinted a 200 -meter sprint for a medal in the Olympics.

[576] So I buy it if your asthma acts up after the race.

[577] What if he wins gold?

[578] What are we doing if he wins gold?

[579] Is he in the wheelchair if he wins gold, or is he running around?

[580] No, he's running around.

[581] He's running around.

[582] Okay, just making sure.

[583] Yeah.

[584] But he is telling us that he won gold while having COVID for sure.

[585] Yeah.

[586] It's a double -edged sword because on one side, A, I won bronze, but I'm in a wheelchair, my asthma.

[587] But then I overcame if I won gold.

[588] I had COVID, I have asthma, like, all this stuff.

[589] It's like, you can't have both sides.

[590] It's safe to assume.

[591] He does not lose heats.

[592] It's safe to assume that he had COVID during the heat as well.

[593] So, I mean, if you have a guy, that's his best event, and he loses, I understand.

[594] He did all the cocky stuff on the front end.

[595] What, it's safe to say this had an impact on him.

[596] I don't care.

[597] That's fine.

[598] You can be a hater.

[599] You're entitled to being a higger.

[600] I'm down with that.

[601] Like, I'm glad that you're just wearing it.

[602] I'm trying to both, like, I'm trying to show the other side, so this show isn't just like us being a bunch of haters all the thing.

[603] No, no. I also think that, like, you know, we always complain about, like, oh, this guy's so boring or like this, this is boring, the sports boring, blah, blah, blah.

[604] And so for someone to inject some, like, personality, whether you like it or not, I think generally is fun.

[605] So I got another Olympic thought, especially in August, that goes with this theme of, like, people talking trash, right?

[606] And do you guys see the men's 1500 meter?

[607] Oh, yeah.

[608] Right?

[609] The rivalry between Kerr of the UK.

[610] Inbregson.

[611] And Engbertson of Norway.

[612] I'm struggling with names today.

[613] No, explain it to me. Okay.

[614] So Engbertson won.

[615] gold at the last Olympics, right?

[616] And he is generally considered the best at the 1 ,500 meters in the world, right?

[617] But then Kerr, who's from Britain, wins gold at the world championships last August, and starts talking a lot of trash.

[618] And so what we've had over the last year pretty much is this war of words.

[619] It's not a cold war.

[620] It's very outwardly, you don't really see it in that sport where guys are like, I don't like him, I think he's a clown, da -da, and the other guy's like, he never says that when I'm around.

[621] He never says it to my face.

[622] And so we had this whole buildup of these two guys, who's going to win gold, the world champion or the defending Olympic champion.

[623] And then the 1 ,500 meter race happens.

[624] And Team USA comes from nowhere to win gold and bronze, right?

[625] And, you know, it was basically neck and neck between Kerr and Engbertson until the last.

[626] Yeah, the last like 100 meters.

[627] And like Inbrington, I can't say that name.

[628] He was setting the pace the whole race, and he was going so fast that the entire time the announcing team was like, this is a blazing speed.

[629] This is going to be really hard to keep up for the entire 1 ,500 meters.

[630] And sure enough, like he pulled up towards the end and didn't even end up meddling.

[631] But you know what the tactical mistake he made.

[632] He's running.

[633] He had the inside lane, the American runner, Hocker.

[634] Cole Hocker was like, he's not going to be able to pass.

[635] If you're going to try to pass, he had to go all the way on the outside.

[636] That would have been crazy.

[637] but because Kerr was on Englebertson's right, he was so concerned.

[638] They were racing each other.

[639] Yeah, and so he goes away from the inside, and that opened the lane for a Hawker to just zoom right up.

[640] And I think when that happened, it broke him.

[641] It broke Engbertson because he was so concerned about Kerr.

[642] He was like, what the hell did they didn't get that license plate over there?

[643] And zooms right in, Hawker wins.

[644] Kerr comes in for the silver and then Nogoussa for USA Who went to Notre Dame by the way?

[645] Did he?

[646] Yes, he did, Jared Nogus.

[647] There was a lot, like Team USA has been killing it in track and field this Olympics which is why I feel like I've been so locked in yesterday.

[648] Tara Davis Woodhull won the long jump which was just great.

[649] She jumped over seven meters and her husband is a Paralympian so their celebration afterwards was like it was a real tearjerker in my household.

[650] They were on the Today Show this, Oh, really?

[651] Good for that.

[652] That's cute.

[653] And then Sidney McLaughlin -Lavroni with the 400 -meter hurdles, just like doing the Katie Ladecki thing of like she's so far ahead that the rest of the runners weren't even in the picture when she crossed the finish line, winning her second gold medal was crazy.

[654] And then Grant Holloway, who's the 110 -meter hurdler for the U .S., he won gold, too, yesterday.

[655] So all of this between like 14 o 'clock and like 16 o 'clock yesterday.

[656] I was just so locked into Team USA.

[657] Opening ceremonies tend to matter more for the Olympics.

[658] It's kind of strange, but Katie Ledecki mentioned her.

[659] She's going to be the flag bearer for the closing ceremonies.

[660] While it's an honor, the opening ceremonies is the assignment that you want.

[661] Because Coco was a flag bearer in the opening ceremonies, Coco is already back, like working on her career.

[662] She's not going to hang around for the closing ceremonies.

[663] Why is that?

[664] We got Tom Cruise for this thing.

[665] No one really ever talks about the closing ceremonies.

[666] I mean, I'm sure it probably costs a lot of money to stick around, like, past when you're, not that it matters for someone like Coco who probably has a lot of money from playing tennis professionally for four years already.

[667] But it probably is like you got to get back at some point in train.

[668] If Katie Ladecki maybe doesn't need to get back right away for any sort of, you know, she doesn't have the U .S. Open coming up in a week.

[669] Yeah, exactly.

[670] I think that's the big thing is do you have competition that's happening?

[671] If you have competition that's happening, you can't waste time hanging out.

[672] but for a lot of these as you've mentioned just like a lot of these athletes are people who have day jobs right like these are regular people who happen to be amazing at something and so for them yeah i'm going to continue this paid vacation in france and hang out in the Olympic village and it's the chocolate muffins that everyone's raving about apparently the chocolate muffins in the Olympic village are insane not croissants but there's uh muffins but there's also worms in the food allegedly the Olympic organizers are like no there's not.

[673] What are you talking about?

[674] There's no worms here.

[675] Look at how great we've been treating everybody.

[676] Forcing them in the E. Coli River.

[677] R. F .K. Jr. is nowhere near the Olympic Ocean.

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[679] Yeah.

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