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Ep. 193 - What the Olympics Fever?!

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[MUSIC] >> Yeah, baby, Olympics week. >> [LAUGH] >> Olympics week. >> Yes, it is. >> Here on What the Podcast. [MUSIC] >> I'm Ryan. >> I'm John. >> And together, we're representing Ryan and John. And representing the couch, Cara Tofoya. And representing the other side of the couch, Annie the Scove Scovement. >> Woo hoo. >> And coming at you from the floor, what is this? Arthur, all right. >> [LAUGH] >> You can't see him, but he's here. >> He's here. >> Arty, come here. >> The music change. >> But hey, how about you represent? >> It was incredible, represent the couch, represent the couch. >> I don't know if you do that. >> Yeah, I know, it was so perfect. >> You know who wrote that Olympics theme? >> John Williams. >> I was gonna guess another John, but. >> John. >> All right. >> Krasinski. >> No. >> Okay. >> John Hancock. >> I'm not gonna say that. >> Go ahead, say it. >> Legend. >> No, I actually, I mean, yeah, I was gonna say John Legend probably. >> Dude. >> The Olympics themes on? >> I know, it's all, it's all, it's all, it's all, it's all. >> But that's okay. >> The Olympics have been in full swing. I know, you know what? I've seen the most Olympics on my TikTok. >> Really? >> Well, not my TikTok, my Instagram, my Instagram. >> Because it's all, everything live starts at 4 AM. >> It kinda does, it's pretty late in the evening. But they replay stuff, it's like prime time Olympics. >> Yeah, but all of them are like little influencers now. >> Yeah, oh yeah. >> I keep seeing team Australia complaining about the beds. >> Oh, it's the cardboard beds, they didn't sleep together. >> Yeah, allegedly, I don't know if that's true. But they are technically, or not technically, allegedly they call them anti-sex beds. Because you get over to that Olympic village, and they do be banging over there. >> I mean, you're in a hole. >> Apparently, this, just this weekend they gave out 400,000 condoms. >> That was the thing I always heard. >> Is that the Olympic village is basically a sex fest. >> Yeah. >> And that they give out Olympic condoms for Olympic sex. Imagine two Olympians. >> I mean, two humans in peak physical condition, high off adrenaline. >> Yeah, I don't know why they would be so upset about that. >> If anything, they're breeding the next Olympians. >> Well, they need to, also like, isn't there a case that they're probably tense in the sense that they're getting ready to go into Olympic games? >> No, it's probably the coaches. The coaches don't want them focusing on the team now. >> They don't want them to lose their edge. >> Which is horny. >> Come on. >> They don't want them getting hurt. Try something crazy in bed. The cardboard bed gives out. You twist your ankle right before the hurdles. >> Yeah. >> You have to hurt all the things. >> You have to hurt all the hurdles. >> There's already a couple of gold medals for the US, right? >> Yeah. >> Where we are in the standing of America. >> We're still the highest medal count. >> We have 543 athletes this year. >> I know. >> Whoa. >> Couple countries set three. >> I'm going to look up our standings currently. >> The gold medal so far. >> I mean, like, how special would that be if you were the one of the three that your country set? >> Three gold medals so far. >> We've got 20 total. France has 14 total, four gold, seven, seven, so, you know, and as a full-breaker. >> Oh, wait. >> We have the most medals, but we have more bronze. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> What the hell America, get it together, bronze. >> Is that better or we're getting more bronze, but, like, we have more medals, but fewer wins like gold and silver? >> No. >> Yes. It's still the most battles. >> Gold are nothing. >> Yeah, give us gold. >> Silver's the first loser. >> Here we go. >> First place loser. >> Second place loser. >> Second place loser. >> Second place loser. You're done. >> Just disgusting. >> Get out of here. >> Oh, my gosh. Looking at how much they make, how much each country, like the athlete makes, forgetting a certain medal type. Give it to me. The U.S. for getting a gold medal, mind you, you train four years to become the best in this category. >> Can we guess? >> And you win gold. Yeah, go ahead. >> 400 bucks. >> No, I'm tired of that, obviously. But it's 400. >> That's insane. They're like, you're, it's really for glory. >> What are we talking like, 10 Gs? Like something low like that? >> No, you get, just guess. >> A thousand dollars. >> I say all in on, you get $100,000 for a gold medal. >> No, no, no, no, I'm gonna say $25,000. >> Just like a one, like Michael Phelps wins the gold, he gets 50 grand. >> He gets $37,000 in something awesome. >> Based on what? >> From the U.S. >> From the U.S. >> From the U.S. The U.S. based on that, forgetting a gold medal. You know, like, in other countries, it's like, it was so funny because other countries were more and somewhere less, and there was some countries where you just didn't get anything. And then there was like, I think it was like Scandinavia or something, some obscure country was like, you get a three bedroom house. >> I was like, what? They're like three bedroom house? >> We give you a plot of land and ten cows. >> That's worth more than $35,000. >> That was so awesome. >> You have to live out in, you know, ancient Scandinavia. >> Also, I wanna know, I wanna know where, where these houses are, like, is it all? >> That's what I mean. >> One neighborhood. >> No, no. >> Which had new Olympic Village? >> Oh, it's the Victor's Village. That's, of course. You get a house, of course. >> Would you imagine me like, yes, I just scored a little house? >> Like, we're gonna sell it probably, nobody lives out in the, you know, the sticks of Norway or whatever. >> Except for the Olympic gold medal. >> Scandinavia, yeah, well. >> Maybe it's like a badge of honor. >> The sex village. I mean, maybe. >> I wanna live in the village, so I have to go get a gold medal and then they'll give me a house up there. >> Allegedly, I don't know if this is true, but somebody that we know, like, was on an Olympic team didn't actually compete but was like a manager or something. And they had a bunch of silver medals and they said, actually, technically, the silver medals, just the medal, is worth more because it's pure silver as opposed to the gold medals are like a gold alloy. >> Yeah, the silver medal is pure silver, the gold medal is the silver medal, dipped in gold. >> Yeah. >> They said, like, if you melt down, I just watched a video about that. >> Really? >> That's crazy. >> It was like, if you melt down the gold, it's only worth, like, it's like jewelry. Yeah, it's only worth, like, $1,000 or something. >> Yeah, I think it's something that, like, you know, the second place people just tell themselves, like, this is actually worth more. >> It's worth more. >> Yeah. >> Because I'm the first loser. >> Oh, I'm not the first loser. >> I truly, in my childhood, I thought I was going to be an Olympian. >> Okay. >> I did. I fully was, what, what thing? What was your thing? >> Well, my thing in reality, I was like, I'm going to be an Olympic volleyball player. But then after you watch it, you're like, I could really do a lot of this stuff, except for running. Running was really the only one that I had. >> I feel that. >> My favorite memes is that when people are like, a lot of them are being like, they show like an Olympic person messing up and then they're like, on their couch, they're like, oh, I suck, I'm going to do that. >> I'm like, that is so true. That is literally everyone right now being like, oh shoot, he really biffed out an eye. I could do it on a Sunday night. Simone Biles, like, you know, got back on the, she did a whole routine. >> I know after she walked out last year, or last year, emotional. But there was a video that was like, give me five shots of tequila and like some French fries and I could do this. And it was her like, absolutely like, destroying. Like she was amazing. >> What's crazy is I saw a video from like the 1980s Olympics for like men's gymnastics versus like now. >> Good or bad? >> It was just like, the bar was so much lower. They're like, oh, he jumped over, that's awesome. And now it's like, they're doing five flips in the air. >> Oh, which is crazy because it's a couple of tricks are opposite for women's. >> Yeah. >> There are some things that they've had to ban from the Olympics because it was so dangerous. >> No, twisty cheetos or something? >> No, there's like a specific bar, like double bar trick that women used to do. And it fully was like that nope, that is way too deep. Like there's one that you can fall into like crack your head and type of thing. >> Was it twisty cheetos? >> No, it wasn't a twisty cheetos. >> It was a spicy cheetos. >> I'm getting mixed reports on how many medals we have, but I think they just need to update them. >> Yeah. >> I think we just have a lot. >> The U.S. in the last ten years has been sweeping and digging a lot. >> I think we've had propaganda that says that. >> No, I think we definitely have because we send the most people. So of course we're going to go. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that's kind of like it's kind of like stacking the bag. >> Okay. For one, we have Michael Phelps, who's the most decorated Olympian of all time. By far, by the way, Michael Phelps, 28 medals. He's got like 24 gold and like four silver or something like that. >> I think the next one up was like 15 medals. >> It's 10. It's 10. >> I think that guy was also an American. >> 37,000 times. How many? >> I'm not sure. >> I think he was a Jewish American. I think I saw a whole thing about- >> I thought you're American. >> I might be- >> No, it's a- >> I think the second one is a girl. >> He has 23 gold- >> Right below him. >> Oh my gosh. >> Pump it up. >> Pump it up. Let's get to the bottom of the- >> Yeah, I just for a second while he's looking that up. So Michael Phelps has 23 gold medals, and if you apply that 37,000 now, it probably has changed over the years. He has made- >> Yeah. >> If we just go with 37,000- >> I mean his brand deals and stuff, right? >> Outside, I mean, I'm talking about- >> You're saying just the medals, it's $851,000 he's made. >> You know, it's crazy. >> That probably doesn't- >> Some change, probably doesn't cover- >> Yeah, that dude, the multi-millionaire. >> I'm saying his brand deals are bigger, but I'm just saying- >> Yes. >> That's crazy that he got that much from a government stipend, I mean, that's a lot of medals too. >> But what's crazy is 37,000- >> I mean it's spread out between how many years? >> Yeah, two and a half or four years, yes. >> You know? >> You know? >> But- >> Hey, $7,000. You're probably spending easy 10K a year on training. >> More than that. >> On like- >> More than that. >> Yeah, like getting two different competitions. >> No, but don't you think like when you're on the Olympic team, the Olympic team pays for a lot of your- >> No, yes, yes. >> I mean, yeah, when you're trained, like, I don't know, I don't know. >> I mean, it's not to keep going back to the Hunger Games, but it is very Hunger Games. >> Oh, it is Hunger Games. >> Like, what do you call it? >> Sponsors. >> People that give you money. >> Sponsors. >> They get sponsors, and they get, you know, a little screen time where people send them a little thing on a parachute, a little package. >> [LAUGH] >> That's crazy. >> They don't do that? >> Keep it up, buddy. >> Yeah. >> So he's been in- >> You're doing okay. >> One, two, three, four, five Olympic Games. That's crazy. >> Yeah, he, like, retired and came out of retirement because he was, like, just kind of wanted to be an asshole or something like that. >> Yeah, do you guys track that whole thing that he was, I think we may have talked about it. >> What? >> But- >> Then he raised the shark. >> The Australian, that was like, oh my God, there was this Australian girl, that she was also, like, very decorated Olympian, and this was her last year to compete. >> She's like, a little race mockerel. >> They're interviewing her, and she's like, they're like, oh, yeah, tell us about your wins. Like, every time I'm so glad that we don't have to hear the US National Anthem, the Star Spangled Banner. >> Oh. >> She's like, it's so annoying. And every time it's just ringing your ear and you're like, please stop. And they all chant USA, USA, and they ring a cowbell. And she's like, and she's Australian, she's like, it's so annoying, right? >> Yeah, her whole thing was like- >> I'm over it. >> America sucks. So I'm glad when any other country but America wins. And they show Michael Phelps and he was like, that would have just made me win more. >> Wow. >> We'll show you the video. He gets fired up, like he was about ready to go out of retirement. And he's like, okay, he's like, I'm not done. He's like, see, I never saw this video, you showed me this for the first time. >> The craziest commercial during the Olympics. >> Yeah. >> He goes, if I would have seen that when I was competing, I would have watched it every night. He's like, I would have watched that girl say that every night. See, that just shows how different he is. He's like, I would have just let that fuel my fire and I'd prove them wrong. He was so, it was so good, it fires me up. >> Awesome. >> The best cherry on top of that Sunday is that girl didn't qualify this year. >> Yes. >> And it was her last eligible year to qualify and she's like, I'm so sorry, I couldn't do it. >> What's that mean? >> Last eligible year, is there an age cap in Australia? >> No, no, it was. >> She was like, this is, I don't know if it was an age gap. >> It's not, there's no eligibility. You can be as old as you on the Olympics. >> But she said, she was like, this is my last chance. I don't know what that means. >> She's probably like 25, 30. >> That's such a crazy thing to say. I mean, I guess, do you think a lot of the other countries hate the US and it comes to the Olympics? >> Well, absolutely. >> Why? Why are we any different? >> Because we're the best goddamn country in the entire world. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Amen. >> You woke up. You woke up. >> Also like, look at our little blazers we had, they're jealous. >> I mean, they're jealous. >> We do have a blazer. >> I like the blazer. You don't think? >> I thought our outfits are ugly, but I think all the outfits are ugly. Like every single year, they make a whole deal of so and so is representing America by designing the Olympic opening outfit. >> Uh-huh. >> And then they roll up and I'm like, look ridiculous. >> You know what I hate about them is that they're made by these like bougie companies. >> Yeah. >> I wish it was, I wish it was like, and I know this is probably crazy. But I wish it was like, find a local, like, brand that was built or made in the US and let them make it. And I don't really think about these particular brands. They might be originally US started, I guess. >> I missed it. >> We're off Lauren in this year. >> Yeah, I was gonna say Polo. >> Is that, is Polo at all? >> Yeah. >> Okay, well then- >> I think that's- >> It's not a super bougie brand. >> I thought you were American. >> I feel like- >> Yeah, it was jacket multiple times. >> Have you seen, you could buy them on their website, they're like $600, which is nuts. >> No. >> That's actually not that bad. >> Yeah, we're not gonna do that. >> I mean, honestly- >> I don't want to know. >> Those are pretty cool. >> Let me check them out. >> They're affordable, I'd freakin' rock one of those on Fourth of July. Tell me you wouldn't. On Fourth of July, you wouldn't come in with that. >> No, I don't think on Fourth of July, when we have a Fourth of July themed lip sync battle. >> Yes, I just found this $600. >> Unfortunately, next year is Olympic's themed lip sync battle. >> Yeah. >> Olympic. >> We tried it. >> We tried it. >> A lip sync. >> A lip sync battle. >> Oh my gosh. >> That would have been perfect this year. >> For this year. >> Would it be Olympics, but it doesn't matter. >> We didn't think about that. Anyway. >> Yeah. >> Controversy circling around that opening ceremony of the Olympics. Let's dive into that, okay? I'll be honest. I haven't seen the whole thing. I've just seen what TikTok allowed. >> The whole thing was cool. Like, I don't think I've seen the whole thing either. >> There you go. >> We wanted bits and pieces. It was so long. >> Like, bulk of it. It was a very long opening ceremony. I mean, France, you know, is already pretty artistic, right? >> Yeah. >> Those French people. They were-- >> So they were really-- >> So the whole country gets to just to do the whole opening. >> Yes. Oh, yeah. And it's a whole big thing. It's supposed to kind of be like around their culture. >> Celebrating. >> Like their country. >> Their country. >> Okay, cool. Love it. >> So they did this whole-- it was like all over Paris and they had boats. It was really-- it was pretty spectacular. I'm not going to lie. The amount of production that went into it. >> They had the parade. >> They had Lady Gaga. They had-- she was like singing and doing this kind of like to lose the trek thing. They had like performers out on these barges in the sun, like going by, playing the piano, and they kept cutting away to like all these crazy costumes and lights and everything. And then at one point, they had-- correct me if I'm wrong. It was like a gaggle of drag queens. And they-- >> A gaggle. >> A gaggle. >> And they were recreating what-- American. A lot of Americans we now find thought that they were recreating the Last Supper. >> Yeah. >> Oh. >> Turns out-- >> Not it. >> -- spoilers for the controversy, turns out not the Last Supper. They were recreating a French piece of artwork called the Feast of Dionysus, which apparently inspired Da Vinci's Last Supper, but we'll get into that in a second. And Christians didn't like that. >> Yeah. >> We didn't like that. >> I feel like totally when people recreate the Last Supper, they try and do it to like the final tee. Like they do the pose. They do everything. They didn't do that. >> The Last Supper gets made fun of all the time in like-- >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Like a little bit of-- >> People do like crossover, Bobby. That was one of Bobby's ideas for him. >> My time is doing Last Supper? >> I love it. >> I want to make a giant canvas across the stage and have him be at the center and like all the people on the side. >> I think-- >> You know what? It's kind of giving arrested development. >> Yeah. Totally. Totally. Where they recreate the creation of Adam, right? >> Yeah. >> Classic. >> And every year they do the big display thing. >> Yeah. >> But forgetting Christians is the Last Supper is not a picture. It's a piece of art. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> It's not the real depiction. I mean, it's depicting what could have been Jesus Last Supper. But it's not like a Polaroid they pulled out of the Bible. So I think like holding that in such a steam is like kind of crazy. >> Yeah. Also it wasn't that. So get over it. >> But it wasn't that. So that's beside the point. >> An interesting take I saw this morning. >> Yeah. >> Joey from Barstool Sports. He and another-- I should know more about it. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> But that's this podcast. >> But here's the take. >> Joey Kessomatoes. He's like kind of like the iconic gay guy in Barstool Sports. >> Oh, he's so funny. >> He's so funny. >> Okay. >> If I showed you like a clip of him, you would know what he would talk about. >> Sure. He was like in Jersey Shore. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. He like had the whole thing with Snooki. >> He has a whole life before Barstool. >> Yeah, but he's really good. And he, I saw a clip of him today getting showed it for the first time. He was like, this is why people hate gay people. >> [LAUGH] >> He was why we're putting more of a target on our back than we already are. >> That's pretty funny. >> He's like, first of all, some of these countries don't believe in this. >> Yeah. >> And you're insulting these countries. And now you're just making a target for trans and queer people. Yeah, how about we just piss off all those countries that don't believe in this as they bring their like strongest people to our country to make a map? >> That entire section of the Olympic opening has been taken down off of any like official site. >> Because of that? >> No, because one of the drag queens in the background decided to, in his little tiny Spanx, pull them to his side, took the side and his balls were hanging out the entire time. And it got, it got put on TV. >> Maybe that's why they're so upset. >> I was gonna say, going back to making yourself more of a target, like, people are already gonna have a problem with that. >> Listen. >> Listen. >> Listen. >> The French crazy. >> Another part of the opening. >> Yeah, go ahead. >> Which probably pissed people off, was it was a very, it was during the like, the kind of like step up, like water, dancing like hip hop part, they fully would, they would cut back to pre-recorded things, and they did one in a library, and it was, it was all about like sexual tension, and like these three people are reading books separate from each other, and they keep holding up books that are like sexual innuendos in French, and they end up having a threesome. >> That, and that they like- >> Hey, Minajitwa. >> Yeah, Minajitwa. >> Yeah, Minajitwa. >> Look, the French know what they got, okay, and they're putting it on display, all right? They said, listen, come to French, and we give you a sex, and we give you- >> Minajitwa. >> And we give you Lady Gaga and feathers. >> And we give you Lady Gaga and feathers. >> And who's going to hold the Olympic torch as Snoop Dogg. >> Snoop Dogg. >> It's Selmaic. >> I love. >> That was wild for me, like why her? >> Yeah, yeah, I mean, they designed the Olympic torch to look like a giant joint, so- >> Literally. >> It was good that Snoop Dogg was holding it. >> Yeah, it wasn't really good. I also think it's been funny, I've been seeing this kind of competition within the US Olympic teams. >> Yeah. >> Of getting another famous person to be like, I'm their biggest fan, and so the Olympic, the US women's rugby team went up to Jason Kelsey, they're like, come on, this team has this person, this team has this person, can you just be our super fan? >> Like, you just look into this camera right here and say that you're a biggest fan. >> It's true because Snoop Dogg has that one swimmer with the wife and the baby. >> Wow. >> Yeah. >> And then- >> It's literally like Hunger Games. >> John Legend and Chrissy Teigen were watching gymnastics, Lady Gaga watching gymnastics. >> Bro, everyone watch gymnastics. I- >> Simone Biles. >> Simone Biles, my queen, you're back. >> She's queen. >> Love her. What was her flying squirrel or something was her little nickname, the First Olympics? >> No, you're thinking of the jumping shrimp. >> No. There was something squirrel. >> That was true. >> She did get an Olympic, like gymnastics move named after her because no one had ever done it before. It was called the Simone One. And this year is the first year that someone attempted it and landed it, and it was another girl. >> That's exciting. Honestly. >> They're calling it the Simone Two. >> I don't know. >> That's crazy. >> Wow, I would, next, next Olympics is LA. >> Yeah. >> That's right. >> Are we going? >> 28. We're going to do a live podcast. >> We're going to be doing a live podcast from the 2028 Olympics, post up in the parking lot of Sofia Stadium. >> Tailgate, though, Olympics. >> We don't actually know what happens because we'll be on the outside of it. >> Where would it be? >> There's an Olympic center. >> It has to be multiple places. So it'll probably be forum, Sofia, Staples, like literally everything, like big stadiums over there. >> Done. We're there. It's one thing. >> The vibes are going to be electric. >> Let's go to something that no one else goes to so they feel loved. >> Yeah. >> Like shock put or something like that. >> I love it. >> I don't know if there's a single event in the Olympics that you won't go. >> Yeah, if you could come up, a little bit of respect on the shot put. Thank you. >> I love the track and field. >> Pink. >> I love the ping pong. >> We're watching. >> We're watching Badminton. >> Oh my gosh. >> Love Badminton. >> They said the shuttlecock can get up to 220 miles per hour when they're playing. >> They shut the clock. >> They shut the clock. >> That's crazy. >> Okay, John, what Olympic sport would you be in if you could be? >> I think we did this, but I'm willing to hear again. >> Wait, were the Olympics around our first year? >> No. >> We talked about this. >> No, not last week. But a couple weeks ago, we were like the Olympics as a podcast in terms of like going through the Olympics as a podcast because we haven't been around for that. John Albright taking the stage. >> I don't know what I'd be in. I don't know. >> Is he going to take the putty on tonight? >> Something really obscure probably. >> Something really obscure. >> I feel like you'd be a Badminton person. >> Something obscure. >> Yeah. >> That's interesting. I'm so sorry. >> John Albright. >> I guess I have no idea. >> He doesn't know. >> Okay, John. >> I don't watch the Olympics, but Badminton, I'm at Badminton, there you go. >> And John Albright grasps the shuttlecock. >> Jeez. >> And then he hits it back and forth. >> Okay, okay. >> Over the net. Okay. >> No, that's enough of that. >> That's enough of that. >> Cara, your Olympic sport. >> Already said it gymnastics. >> Yeah. >> What would be like your signature move? >> Oh, I don't think I was doing that week. >> I don't think I was doing that week. >> Surely you were. >> I don't know. I would do floor. >> Sorry, I'm going to change my mind. I'm going to do diving. >> Oh. >> We did watch the, would you do the synchronized dive? >> Yeah. >> Dude. >> Oh my gosh. We should watch. You guys should practice. >> We should go to a pool. It has those high jumping things. I mean, it's probably so dangerous, but we'll do it. >> No, you guys got it. >> We watch the US women's do it. They were keyed by the way at their last names, bacon and cook. >> And cook. >> They've known each other since they were eight years old. >> Dude, cook and bacon. Are you kidding me? >> Also. >> You know, they have a really cool hand. >> Synchronized dives aren't that high dive. They're not high dive. >> And then what everyone puts their hands on, it's like, presents like a piece of bacon. >> She's like, I'm the bacon. I'm cooking. >> I'm cooking. That's their hand jig. >> What? It's their hand jig. >> And they do it every time before they, they dive. >> They don't do it. They are out of sync. >> Die. >> But they're crazy. One, two, one. Go. >> But first. >> And they don't even look at each other. >> First. >> They go. >> Are you ready? >> Yeah. It was like we were under their press. They fully had telepathy. They're like, is it time for breakfast? He goes, she goes, better start cooking bacon. Die. >> Like a really dramatic, like, is it, is it time for breakfast? Is the skillet on? And I guess it's time to cook bacon. >> I love that so much. >> Totally. >> Totally. Awesome. You guys don't even get it. You don't get it. >> It's called Pride in your Country. It's called Pride in your Country. >> If you could, okay, now this is a wild, if you could play for the Olympics in any other country, what would you choose? >> Great question. Great question. >> Here's something to think about when you're, okay, let's think about what we're thinking about. >> As they're called on the banner, the People's Republic of China, so. >> You're staying with all these people. So part of it is kind of a sex thing. Like who do you want to be in the Los Angeles? >> No, you're making it weird. >> And now you're making it weird. No, you're making it weird. >> Oh, you don't think that the Olympics are about sex? Why are you watching the gymnastics, huh? >> What? Hold on. >> Yeah, you're sex queen. Do you pervert? >> Speaking of pervert. >> You pervert. >> Yeah, I'm going to choose not the country with the pedophile competing. >> Which is the, it's the Dutch, I think? >> Yeah, which country has the pedophile? >> Let's go ahead and look it up. >> I, German. >> He is Dutch. >> Carol, hit us with the facts about the pedophile of the Olympics. >> Wait, what? Okay, I had to pull it up. All right. >> I got it. >> Oh, you guys go. >> Okay, his name is Steven Van de Valdi, Valdi. He's a Dutch beach volleyball player. He's ranked 10th in the world. >> And what would bring him 10th? >> Well, he was sentenced for, well, 10th in the world. >> Well, we'll probably have the first nine. >> He convicted child rapist and registered sex offender was booed by spectators as he competed in beach volleyball at the Olympic Games on Sunday. >> We're reading the exact amount. >> Steven Van de Valdi, a Dutch beach volleyball player on a team ranked 10th in the world. So it's not even like, you're 10th in the world. You're not going to be like ninth by putting the rapist on your show, on your team, sure. >> Yeah, why don't we just get the guy who's 11th in the world? >> He was sentenced for four years in prison in 2016, and he only served one year. And now he's active on the UK's sex offenders registry. >> Yeah, he's not let sex offenders out early for a good behavior. >> And you don't even create- >> How about not at all? >> Well, they're on the list for life. >> He's part of a duo. >> A duo of rapist or- >> No, a duo. >> And his partner does press, cuz I was telling you guys, they don't make him do press. They have a special entrance in exit. He doesn't live in the same Olympic village, everybody else. But his partner was asked about him and his partner's like, it's in the past. Basically, it's in the past. >> What? >> It's like bro. >> He's a great volleyball player, and I'm like, wait, what? >> Maybe they both shouldn't do press. Just get a whole public assist. If you're gonna be complicit, let me tell you the best part. When he was convicted in court, the judge said to him. Your hopes of representing your country now lie as a shattered dream. >> And as Laura said, he's lost a stellar sporting career. It's a career ending moment for him. >> And he said- >> Psych. >> And they still brought him back. >> That's what country was this? >> It says he's Dutch, so I don't know what- >> But look up what country he represents cuz sometimes they have people from other countries. >> Dutch Olympic Committee stood by its decision to include him in the team, explaining that Steven would not live in the Olympic Village or speak to any other media. >> So Dutch. >> Yeah, he's spelled his Dutch. But then it's so funny cuz like the Dutch- >> Is that Holland? >> The Netherlands. >> The Netherlands. >> The Dutch Olympic Committee says Steven is not a pedophile. You really don't think that the Dutch Olympic Committee would send someone to Paris who is that big of a risk. >> They did. >> They're like do you think a pedophile could play this good volleyball? >> Jeez. >> If he was number one, at least they could get away with the Michael Jackson thing. They're like, well, separate the art from the artist, like. >> But he's 10th, so. >> Yeah, he's 10th, so boo pedophiles. >> Boo. >> I guess it depends on how many volleyball players they said. >> They said- >> There's gotta be, we needed one more. >> There has to be more. >> Okay, so- >> He's married with the son, he has a son. >> So they're just complicit in it. They know it happened. They're just turning a blind eye to it cuz he's so good at volleyball. >> Never going to another one. >> Dude, there was a petition to urge the committee to ban the sex offender from competing. And there was nearly 81,000 signatures on that petition. How many people they got in the Netherlands? >> 82,000. >> There's gotta be other volleyball players, right? >> 81. >> 81, in the Netherlands signed it and they still went with it. Even the committee signed it and they said, nah. >> Look at the evidence, he's that good, you guys, he's 10th in the world. >> I think that that is just a shame. You're really putting a mark on your country by doing that. >> Do you think that represents the whole country? >> You know how he got caught? >> How do you get caught? >> Well, he had sex with a 12 year old girl, which is really sad. But the reason he got caught is because he didn't use protection. And so he told the 12 year old girl to go to the store and get a plan B pill. And the police questioned her when she was trying to buy a plan B. >> Yeah, when a 12 year old trying to get plans. >> And he figured out that it was this guy, he traveled to the UK. >> He traveled to the UK to meet up with this girl. >> That's horrible. >> Yeah, crazy. That's what he, again, that's what, I don't know how it could get any worse. But like it seemed, the more and more facts come out and she's like, yeah, it's bad. It's a terrible, terrible thing. Like they should not have many Olympics. >> And like, the Olympics seems like a big deal. But like, really? Like you're gonna give up your morals and your everything. >> Yes. >> Like, he can go play volleyball. >> Yeah, by the way, not even third place. >> Yeah, they're losers. So was it worth it? >> It's totally crazy to me. I think, like you said, I think there needs to be, there are certain things in life that exclude you from, I don't care how good you are, how hard you work at something. There are certain things in life that exclude you from going to something like the Olympics. And I think that is definitely one of them. I think, I don't care how reformed or all these things that he's trying to prove to say he's different or changed. I'm like, you make that mistake, sorry buddy, you're out, you're out. >> You feel that you're done. >> I don't think you have to live in like prisons forever or you have to live in squalor. But at the same time, you can't go to the Olympic Games, that's one thing that should exclude you. >> I think that should be part of what we're choosing for these people to represent our country. I think not that there should be a morality test. But I think they should be genuinely good people that represent what this country represents. >> Which most countries do that. >> Well, unfortunately you don't. Because a lot of these people, all they care about is winning. A lot of these Olympians eat, sleep, and breathe every day of their life competition. >> Yeah, but they're also good people. >> Yeah. >> Most of them. >> Are they? >> Yes, most of them are. >> I think that- >> Certainly definitely assholes. >> Yeah. >> But our Olympic teams, like our individual teams, I feel like America, one of the big things America says like we have, it's like this melting pot of culture. I think that all of our Olympic teams should represent that. I think they should be diverse and I think they should represent multiple cultures in ethnicities. Because that's what, as America, as the melting pot, that's what we say we represent so our teams should reflect that. >> And you know what else- >> Which one of them do? >> And you know what else should reflect that? Our presidency. Let's fucking go Kamala Harris. We have to talk about it. It's Brad Summer for Kamala. We have to talk about it. >> I love all the, I love all of the conservative political guys trying to be like, they're calling her a brat. And then it's like the women trying to be like, no, like brat, like she's brat. >> Like brat, it's not like it's brat Summer. >> And they're like, it's not good calling a leader a brat. And they're like, no, not a brat, she is brat. >> They're like not the leader of the free world. >> No, she is though, she is brat. >> I don't think that even with brat Summer behind her, I don't think anything will be as like comparable to the Bernie Sanders memes that came out during his presidency. >> I don't know if she's really gone for it. >> I forgot about Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders, I'm asking for your financial compensation. >> And then when he, like, when he was still just like a little Senator and he was all cold, bundled up with his mask. >> Was that at the inauguration? >> I think so, something. >> So cute. >> Yes, it was, it was the inauguration. >> I love her. >> What happened to him? >> He's retired, right? >> He was an old white dude. He was a little too, no, he's still a Senator. He's a little too far left for him. >> Hey guys, if you're over the age of 60, retire out of our political system. >> And that's the final word on it, I feel. >> If Mitt Romney was like, yeah guys, we need to. >> Just go finally, just go. >> Get out. >> Yeah, he's 82, Bernie Sanders. >> Surprise, he didn't run. >> Apparently Joe Biden wants to, before he checks out, he wants to establish 18 year term limit for the Supreme Court, 18 years. >> As opposed to like a life sentence that they do. >> He's never gonna happen, but he should have an 18 year term limit. >> He should be an 18 year term limit period. >> Yeah, I'd say so. >> If you're on a elected official, you can work for 18 years as an elected official, spread out whatever, and then you're done. >> And then you're gonna hear your thoughts on the lifetime like Supreme Court justice. >> In the constitution, there's about the like original constitution prior, you know, multiple amendments. There's about like 30 sentences on the Supreme Court. So most of what the Supreme Court looks like today is from the Marshall Court. Originally the Supreme Court was like a gaggle of people that met in basically a clerical office. >> Yeah. >> And they'd met like every couple years. Like it has nothing to do with anything. And the Marshall Court is when they run in the robes, and they did all this. And they made it like basically like let's define what power we have. >> In the same way that Dick Cheney really changed the vice presidency and gave power to the vice president where before it was really just kind of like a figurehead. So unlimited life, like life. >> Lifetime. >> Lifetime seats. >> Sentence. >> Stupid, life sentence, it kind of is. You're on there, you're dying there. Life sentence. >> Yeah, it's crazy. >> That's horrible. >> Dumb, you think it's dumb? >> Dumb. >> So you'd be a four out of 18 year term limit. >> I don't think anyone should be in a position for their entire life. >> Yeah, no. You're holding all the biases. >> 18 years feels like baseline because that's like you served for a whole generation. >> Yeah. >> Like 18 years. >> You got a solid run of evil and then. >> I feel like you could bump it up. >> Go away. >> No, I like 18 years. >> I like that it's just not. >> If you can vote at 18. >> Yeah. >> So question, I just don't know enough about string court. Can you like resign from your position? >> Yeah, you'd sit down. >> Oh, you can't. >> Yeah, a lot of people do. The whole thing. >> That's the only way that seats become open. >> Yeah, I must- >> No, they die. >> 2016, the Democrats were pushing for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign. And because Obama was in office and they were like, if she resigns, Obama gets to pick the next person in the Supreme Court. >> They made some guy step down, it was a dude recently. Like in the last couple, when Biden was president, they made him step down and he, that's how he got the newest person. >> Yes, you're right. >> Yeah, they had him kind of stepped down. >> He died, didn't he? >> No, no one died, he stepped down. >> No, it's just- >> Just to close that loop. >> Most people have- >> Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn't step down because she said she wanted to step down during a female presidency. She was so convinced that Hillary was gonna win and then Donald Trump won and then she died of a broken heart. >> And so then Trump got to pick the next Supreme Court justice. >> And then all of her hard work as the woman who basically helped create- >> The freaking champions, Rover Swade, yeah. >> Got to Wallace right after her. >> Bye, bye, that's where woman- >> She is rolling in her grave. >> I mean, poor, I mean, she made a bad decision, you know? >> That goes to show you that the grip that people have on power, they're like, I'm so, I don't wanna let it go, I don't wanna let go. And then you die and then it's like, well now, what does that say about your legacy? You were so- >> Did you ever see that movie about her? >> No. >> No. >> On the bias of sexes. >> On the basis of sex, yeah. And it's basically she argued one of the first cases for sex equality equality. And it was a man working as a caregiver to his mom. And it was over something where they basically were trying to get it where he wasn't allowed to do it. Because it was like a female job and so it was like that he was unjustly being discriminated against because he's a man. >> On the basis of sex, it was like the whole big ticket. >> And she was like one of, her life story is crazy, but I could see she was one of the first women allowed to go into law school. And all this stuff and I could see if you've crawled and clawed your way up to be like, if you're finally sitting at the Supreme Court. Be like, no, I'm dying here. I'm not stepping down, no man taking my seat. >> Do you think you die in your Supreme Court seat or do you get a- >> I would die if I would take seat. >> I have to read the room. And I think what I'm glad about is that our soon to be formed President Joe Biden read the room. >> Yeah. >> He said, look, I am getting up there in years. And up until he literally made the, he was like, I'm never leaving, like, I gotta run. I gotta see this through, but him and his cabinet had to make a decision that was, hey, I'm not gonna run again because I'm so goddamn old. And I think that a lot of- >> Also because multiple, multiple people sent in. >> Yeah, we're talking about the oldest president of all time, of course. But I think that- >> Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm not sure how much. I think politicians- >> Like it was up to him. >> At some point, stop reading the room. They're like, my own interests are most important to me, I am gonna end my people that I'm getting money from, my little constituents all over the place. And it's just like, you're losing the thread, like who are you representing? Are you representing people from your generation or you're representing the next generation? I don't know. >> Yeah, a lot to think about. >> We'll see. >> Big election year. >> I think, I've been thinking about this a lot because it's an election year. And the whole race has changed with- >> Drastically. >> When we were talking about these two options, I was like, I don't particularly like either of them, and then honestly, when comic came in, I'm like, I don't know that I really like either of them either. But I think what I have to, I keep relying on is that your life really won't change. There will be things that will get slightly better and things that might get slightly worse. But ultimately, I don't know, it's like, does it really, you think about your whole life, and even just your adult life. We've been through two elections as adults for the most part, maybe three. >> Three. >> Three. >> Three. I'm like, how much has really changed for you personally? And probably not much. >> I guess four. >> And not much, and that's why I'm like, maybe, like I said, I'm not a huge fan of Kamala. But at the same time, I'm like, maybe it's time for America to have a female president. I don't know. >> It's hard to go off with like, the giant things that have happened during the presidency. So like, back in the day, when we were kids, like, how's the market, how's market, how's market crisis? >> Yeah. >> Like, we didn't know what was going on, but that was a big thing for that president at that time. >> Sure. >> And then, COVID was a big thing. >> That was crazy. >> How they handle, you know, world events. I mean, I will say like, a lot of times when you hear any president get on the horn and address the nation, it's like, it does do a lot for like, yeah, the psyche, right? Or like, it is kind of their duty to go, okay, you know, we need to, and I feel like, you know, when Donald Trump would jump on the horn, it's just like, crazy. >> Yeah. >> Just like, he'd say weird stuff. And it was just like, like, blabber and like, just like kind of fear mongering a little bit. And then it'd be like, no, we fixed COVID, it's the best COVID, we're the best. It's like, what are we talking about here? I need a little bit, and you know, this isn't my endorsement moment. But like, Kamala has already jumped on the horn a few times and gone, look, we need to like, get our shit together. >> Yeah. >> Basically, as the whole. >> And it's like, like we said, like, it's a young person. It's not a geriatric. >> We're talking about this. >> Again, if they get to another debate. >> Yeah. >> Cuz I still kind of feel like, I still kind of feel like I don't really know. >> Yeah, sure. >> But I think in the next couple of months, we'll start to see the information come out, and I think it will become clear. Yes. >> I have an idea. >> That's a good one slide I wrote. >> We, in, okay, we've all agreed that we're sending the best of the best we have to the Olympics. >> Okay. >> She's rounding the, she's rounding the round. >> Good job. >> Okay, we said the best of the best of the Olympics. >> Uh-huh. >> After we have all of our gold medalists, we then have an American Olympic game where we take all the gold medalists, we put them through, you know, different cognitive tests, maybe a golf test. >> Uh-huh. >> Maybe, you know, like, yeah. >> No, not a golf test. >> Or a child should round a golf, child should debate, do all this stuff. Maybe we can see, like, we'll do a presidential fitness test one more time just to make sure. >> For the president. >> Well, no, and then whoever wins the American Olympics out of the gold medalist, they are the president, okay? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Let's make it easier. Let's take the two candidates after they debate. They should fight physically. >> We better, we put them through the presidential fitness test one more time. If you can't pass the presidential fitness test, you can't not fit to be president. >> I know, like, I know we couldn't do that. >> But we should fully do that, right? >> I say this is my campaign. >> Uh-huh. >> Annie Scopman for, let's just make it easy, 2050. >> Oh. >> Well, I just, I couldn't do the math. >> Yeah, no, of course, of course. >> You can take a minute to do the math, if you need to. >> No, no, no, Annie Scopman running for president 2050. I'll do the presidential fitness test, and I will play. >> I'm pretty sure the only person who did it was Michelle Obama. >> Whoa. >> Cuz she was fighting for, like, the healthy schools, like, let's put healthier food. Let's do it. >> I saw him play his football game. >> Oh, he was probably good, but Michelle Obama did it, like. >> Now Joe and Trump, neither of them could pass the president. >> No. >> That's my camera. >> Well, it's time to wrap up the show for the day. >> Michael Phelps for president. >> We wanna thank our Patreon supporters. Hey, head down to the link in the bio. Sign up to be a Patreon supporter. Get access to the post show. Get access to behind-the-scenes content. Get access to the merch drops. On the couch, as always. Cara Tafoya, and in the scope, Sculpin. I'm Ryan. >> I'm John. >> We'll see you next week on- >> What the fuck cast? >> Wow, that was awesome. >> That was pretty cool, huh? >> So awesome. I think we need to do that every episode. >> Of the Olympics? >> The Olympics are over. >> How long are the Olympics? >> They're a month and a half. >> Years, how long are the Olympics? >> What if we just become an Olympic podcast? >> Forever. >> Forever. >> See you guys in two years. >> Wait, we should even talk about this. >> We should all pull a clip. >> A lot of like this is over. >> She got the next time, thank you.