24. Wives Take Over: Olympic Talk, Abandoned Buildings, Pickleball, Ambulances, and Much More

Ever wondered what happens when our co-host Josh is away and our wives take over the studio? Join us for a hilarious and heartfelt episode where Rebecca and Amanda join us, adding their unique perspectives and personal anecdotes. We chat about everything from studio decor to late-night recording struggles, all while poking fun at Josh's vacation luck. Expect plenty of laughs as we share stories about spaghetti stains and the realities of juggling podcasting with everyday life.

This episode also takes you on a thrilling journey through the world of Olympic athletes and the Senior Olympics. Hear all about Suni Lee’s outstanding floor routine and Simone Biles’ historic win, along with Katie Ledecky’s future plans in swimming. We dive into the quirky origins of pickleball and the surprising economic potential of simple inventions. From the logistical wonders of Olympic swimming pools to the peculiar history of motorboat sailing and hot air ballooning in the Olympics, our conversation is filled with fascinating insights and fun trivia.

We cap things off with a mix of eerie and intriguing tales, including Paris' use of AI in public transportation and eco-friendly initiatives for the upcoming Olympics. Explore the allure of abandoned buildings and unfinished projects through our personal experiences, like navigating malfunctioning hospital elevators. Our shared love for the Olympics brings us to a casual wrap-up, with playful banter and plans for future episodes. Tune in for an episode that promises humor, insights, and captivating stories!

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Transcript

Studio Banter and Ambulance Etiquette

Speaker 1 0:00

all right. So we're here, but all of us aren't. But some of us are. We're down somebody's week. We're down josh, this week, this episode's about to be fun. I know he's gone Long he's gone. I like it. Josh-less Wouldn't talk about him Got a flat tire, flat tire To the beach, to the beach. Good for him. I hope he's having fun.

Speaker 2 0:35

It must be nice to have vacation, I know, right after a nice mission trip.

Speaker 1 0:39

You can just talk, I don't think so, we don't like each other enough to talk for like an hour and a half After that last episode.

Speaker 2 0:45

I was very unaware of how much you liked me. I know I called you ignorant, you called me a jerk, kind of just went for it. That's right, all in love, I think.

Speaker 1 0:54

I couldn't believe. You called me ignorant. Well, the statement was ignorant. The statement was ignorant and. I considered you, I did. I thought about that all night.

Speaker 2 1:01

I lost sleep over it. Got your feelings hurt. I did.

Speaker 1 1:03

I did. But what are we going to do? An hour and a half, we're going longer episodes, yeah, yeah. So an hour and a half, you think me, and you can talk about an hour and a half.

Speaker 2 1:10

I think we can. Okay, let's try, let's do it.

Speaker 1 1:19

All right, we got some spare tires, we do, we got one.

Speaker 2 1:22

It's my wife.

Speaker 1 1:23

Rebecca and we got one my wife Amanda.

Speaker 3 1:26

There you go, hey guys, if you listen to the other podcast this, that and the other you'll know who I am.

Speaker 2 1:31

That's right. You won't know who I am.

Speaker 3 1:33

Or me, and then we got my friend Rebecca hey.

Speaker 1 1:38

She's nervous, she don't know what she wants to say she just thinks she's nervous. She's not nervous, it's okay. Welcome, ladies. Well, thank you To three seasons Studio, is that right?

Speaker 3 1:50

Four seasons.

Speaker 4 1:50

Four seasons I got mixed up with my numbers.

Speaker 1 1:53

We're talking about three wheels down a wheel.

Speaker 2 1:57

Drugs getting after you there, jody, now we have four wheels.

Speaker 3 2:00

Yeah, yeah, y'all usually just have three. It's four today. So what's going on with?

Speaker 1 2:04

y'all Nothing. What do y'all think when we're at? What do y'all think about it?

Speaker 2 2:08

You like our studio.

Speaker 3 2:09

Uh-uh, I got statues staring at me.

Speaker 1 2:12

Statues Don't give too much away, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 2:16

It's a little creepy Secret location.

Speaker 5 2:17

Yeah, turkey pumpkins got the red, white, blue stars and stripes back there.

Speaker 2 2:24

I like that one. That's why we call it the four seasons that's a good one.

Speaker 1 2:27

What else we got?

Speaker 2 2:28

a little Christmas, oh the four seasons.

Speaker 1 2:31

I just now got it that's why it's the four seasons and we have snacks yep got the Reese cups.

Speaker 2 2:41

I brought my own. Thank you.

Speaker 1 2:42

So Amanda brought sweet tart ropes, I brought Sk own and the pretzels. So Amanda brought Sweet Tart Ropes, I brought Skittles.

Speaker 2 2:48

We also have the miniature Reese's Sponsor us. We haven't done that in a while, I know yet, sorry.

Speaker 1 2:51

Hey, give us a sponsor, I guess it doesn't hurt our help if you talk about it, right, I know it doesn't Tell us about y'allself you made us come.

Speaker 5 2:59

I was about to say I got asked and then got brought here.

Speaker 3 3:04

I wish you got asked oh. I got asked Y'all going to do it with us today?

Speaker 2 3:08

This works good for you, Amanda.

Speaker 3 3:10

Why.

Speaker 2 3:11

Because this is also this, that and the other at the same time. Thank you, spencer.

Speaker 3 3:14

No, two birds, one stone. That's right. Saturday will come around and Jody will say you want to go podcast, even though we can't hardly move.

Speaker 1 3:23

Well, I can say that about every night, about podcasting.

Speaker 3 3:25

What's my answer?

Speaker 2 3:27

No, so there you go. You only get two birds, one stone.

Speaker 1 3:31

Maybe, Do you realize we release on Mondays or Sunday night at midnight right. Right, so with Amanda it's like I think this past week it was 8 o'clock, 830-ish when we recorded yeah On Sunday night past week it was eight o'clock, 8, 30 ish.

Speaker 3 3:45

Oh yeah, when we recorded yeah on sunday night on sunday and I'm like because I didn't leave- I didn't leave church till eight o'clock so it had to be it was late.

Speaker 1 3:52

Yeah, poor jody, it was late. Nobody cares. Yeah, poor jody, what's the matter? Right?

Speaker 3 3:57

we just had to be up at three o'clock y'all just show up I was about to say yep, no, thank you. Yeah, what's been going on in your world?

Speaker 1 4:06

nothing nothing, nope, nothing, at all nothing if you. Whatever you want to say, say it he's gonna be asleep over there no I'm not gonna be asleep.

Speaker 4 4:15

I had back surgery a few days ago asleep, so I'm struggling he's struggling, struggling with my voice.

Speaker 2 4:20

He's dedicated yeah, I guess so he has a passion for the podcast I have a passion for the podcast, so to speak.

Speaker 1 4:27

Why is everybody looking at me?

Speaker 2 4:28

because we expect you to lead us you're the leader you're talking because nobody else is.

Speaker 5 4:33

Rebecca talk, hello I'm like, like somebody take over this is only my second podcast, I know, but y'all should be like like chipper what I cooked supper before we came up here.

Speaker 2 4:45

What'd you?

Speaker 3 4:45

cook Spaghetti bake.

Speaker 2 4:47

Why didn't you bring us in? Because Nicholas ate half of it. Did you see how much he?

Speaker 3 4:50

ate.

Speaker 1 4:51

I think part of it's on her shirt right there that's terrible.

Speaker 5 4:56

Yeah, she pointed that out to me earlier.

Speaker 1 4:57

I got one here and one here, and yeah, I know we got here and I rode in the back seat because I couldn't ride in the front and she's like you didn't tell me I had something on my shirt.

Speaker 5 5:07

Oh, so you're being chauffeured around oh yeah, I have to chauffeur him. Nice.

Speaker 3 5:14

Then he hollers when I hit the pothole, I hit every one of them.

Speaker 2 5:17

On purpose. That's just rude. No, they just jump up in in recovery.

Speaker 1 5:21

I think it's on purpose.

Speaker 3 5:22

I really do they just jump out there, these old, good Walker County roads. Some of them do Every time.

Speaker 2 5:29

It's not nearly as bad as Louisiana, though. Back in the homeland of Louisiana.

Speaker 5 5:35

It's terrible. Yeah, some are better than others.

Speaker 1 5:38

Rebecca, do you always use your blinker or do you like, sometimes forget?

Speaker 5 5:43

Most of the time time 99.9 percent of the time I use my blink so it's like on your mind, you know to hit it yes okay, yes, because I get mad when people don't use their blinker I don't blame you, I'm the same way.

Speaker 3 5:55

But if you're at a stop sign and you can't go straight and you, they know you're going one way or the other. You still got to use it. I don't use it, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 6:03

So you're saying you're at a stop sign, the road goes left or right, there's no going straight. Yeah, you need to turn your blinker on you know.

Speaker 3 6:08

They know I'm turning.

Speaker 1 6:10

They know I'm about to turn yeah, if I'm turning in, I'm going to turn.

Speaker 3 6:13

Well, if you're at the stop sign at my house, this is when I don't use it at my house. Okay, it's at your house, not my house.

Speaker 2 6:20

The road the road.

Speaker 3 6:21

oh it, there is a lane and then there's another lane that goes to the left, so I'm in the one that goes to the left. Why do I got to turn it on?

Speaker 5 6:30

Because it's the law. Meh, they'll get you.

Speaker 3 6:34

I mean, if they wanted to, they'd get you. They don't get me, they get my husband.

Speaker 5 6:39

My dad when he wouldn't use his blinker. Sometimes we would say when he wouldn't use his blinker. Sometimes we would say, dad, god moves in mysterious ways, but you don't have to Use your blinker.

Speaker 3 6:48

That's a good one. I do use my blinker most of the time Not right there, though I don't so Spencer and Joris got on to me because we had this discussion about ambulances passing.

Speaker 1 7:01

And we talked about ambulances passing. You know I don't want people. It makes it sound like when they're going by you, but they're coming to you. You're on a two-lane road.

Speaker 2 7:08

Like you're meeting them, you're meeting them Like you're going north, the ambulance is going south.

Speaker 1 7:11

Yeah, you see them in the distance. They're coming towards you. You're going that way and they got their lights on. They're coming when they get, like a funeral procession Pull off to the side.

Speaker 3 7:23

If they're coming towards you, yes, and nothing else is blocking. They, just got straight away.

Speaker 5 7:29

Yes, that's what I was always taught.

Speaker 3 7:32

Correct answer. I keep going.

Speaker 2 7:34

I'm proud.

Speaker 3 7:34

Why do you pull off?

Speaker 5 7:36

Well, I think it's also kind of respect. What if?

Speaker 3 7:40

they're just showing off. They're like hey, watch this.

Speaker 1 7:46

Respect for the driver of the ambulance or respect for the person that might or might not be in the back.

Speaker 5 7:50

Both, because think about it If you were driving an ambulance and you're probably stressed out you're going like really really fast, like I'd be nervous.

Speaker 3 7:58

But there's nothing in front.

Speaker 5 8:00

But still, you know what if you lose control and all of a sudden, bam, you smack into the ambulance. But if you pulled off to the side? But you shouldn't, but what if you run off in the?

Speaker 3 8:10

ditch when you're pulling off to the side and you flip your car.

Speaker 5 8:13

Well that's why you slow down?

Speaker 3 8:15

Okay, so you run into the ambulance. This could be crazy.

Speaker 1 8:21

Y'all keep on.

Speaker 5 8:24

I like following the rules of the road. I'm a rule breaker, I guess so we know.

Speaker 3 8:31

Rule breaker.

Speaker 1 8:32

What else? What else driving did we talk about? We talked about what. Because we haven't got the women's point of view.

Speaker 2 8:38

The women's point of view.

Speaker 1 8:39

But y'all really thought I was crazy because I don't do anything, I don't check up. If I is crazy because I don't do anything, I don't check up. If I see an ambulance coming my way, I'm like I'm not affecting him.

Speaker 3 8:46

He's not affecting me.

Speaker 1 8:48

If somebody's in front of him.

Speaker 3 8:49

I will pull over, because if they're being an idiot or something, Coming your way and there's a car in front of him which that car should pull over.

Speaker 1 8:57

Actually, I think you can gauge the situation. You can figure it out as it gets closer to you, can't you?

Speaker 5 9:03

I always slow down and like go toward the side the I think I do slow down.

Speaker 3 9:08

Shoulder, that's the word. I think I do slow down been watching too many sports I don't pull all the way off.

Speaker 2 9:15

I think I slow down it depends on the situation, that's right.

Speaker 5 9:20

Well, it just depends now it gets real awkward when you're like on the interstate and you're divided by the huge median. It's like my body wants to pull over and slow down, but there's literally no way it could get to me no sense in that, no.

Speaker 1 9:33

I know, but I just feel like I need to. I don't even know if I'd notice if I saw one. Do I pay attention to people on the other side of the median?

Speaker 2 9:40

You said you didn't.

Speaker 5 9:51

I don't think I do well, I don't know. They're on the other side of a median on i-20 where there's nothing like barely any trees. I mean, you're looking what's in front of you, so it's kind of obvious. You got you kind of have to look over there, and that's where I drive most of the time I guess I was thinking more of the interstate, more of like more, more lanes, and all that metro, yeah like a birmingham or at a Birmingham, or.

Speaker 2 10:03

Atlanta or Dallas.

Speaker 1 10:04

Something like that we might have, like the divided highway. I guess that's what I had pictured in my mind when you said that, oh, I was thinking, a regular road. Yeah, I got you.

Speaker 2 10:11

But on the interstate I have noticed lately, the past couple of times, like if I see a cop coming, I don't slow down. I don't slow down, I just keep driving and acting normal.

Speaker 1 10:26

But the first thing you do is look at your speed. I do, I check the speed and make sure, I'm, not speeding.

Speaker 2 10:32

My cruise is still going. I'll get over to the right lane so he can have the left lane. Most people hit the brakes hard.

Speaker 5 10:45

This is because we were coming home from Georgia and this exactly what happened. It's like we're in the left lane and Spencer pulls over to the right. Cop passed us and like four cars in front of us Like slam on their brakes. So, Spencer had to pull off in the left lane and pass them all, I just Tailgated the cop.

Speaker 2 10:57

I mean he's already got you, if he's gonna get you, or whatever, in this case his lights weren't even on, he was just driving down the interstate.

Speaker 5 11:03

He was just cruising along.

Speaker 2 11:06

He was just speeding his self. He was using his cop privileges.

Speaker 3 11:09

That's right.

Speaker 1 11:10

When people see lights, they act crazy. It causes something I don't know. They want to hit their brakes.

Speaker 5 11:16

Yeah, it gets a little nerve-wracking. Sometimes you feel like your heart's in your stomach.

Speaker 3 11:21

I had one pull out behind me a while ago, one car behind me, so it was two cars behind me.

Speaker 2 11:27

Did your heart race.

Speaker 3 11:28

No, I didn't let up. I'm like, well, if he's going to get me, he's going to get me. When was this he's concerned.

Speaker 1 11:36

Today.

Speaker 3 11:37

Earlier today. Oh Yikes.

Speaker 2 11:39

No, we went like one place.

Speaker 3 11:40

Well.

Speaker 2 11:46

That One place. Well, that one place. You was speeding, I went too. She went so fast, you didn't even know All right what's going on.

Speaker 1 11:50

The Olympics Y'all watch the Olympics, absolutely. I was about to say.

Speaker 2 11:54

Another thing that would get your heart going would be trying to compete in the Olympics, knowing you're representing your country.

Speaker 5 11:59

My heart rate picks up when I'm watching it.

Speaker 2 12:01

I was like you do get a little over-passionate about these things that don't matter at all.

Speaker 1 12:05

They do. Are you the one going go?

Olympic Athletes and Senior Olympics

Speaker 5 12:08

go, go, Swim faster swim faster, literally. Today I was watching the women's gymnastics all around and I was like it was the last rotation. Suni Lee had to score really big in order to even medal and she, like, when they put up the scores, she had to like do the best floor routine she's ever done and I literally every pass I was like go suny, go suny, go suny.

Speaker 3 12:30

she even knows them by name oh, absolutely, is that the auburn girl? I?

Speaker 2 12:34

just know there's one from the auburn. Okay, she is. She talks about all of them like they're her best friends well they are. I love them oh, me and simone the other.

Speaker 5 12:45

They made history today, by the way.

Speaker 1 12:47

She won right.

Speaker 5 12:48

She won and Suni got third.

Speaker 2 12:49

They're the only like Well this will be two weeks ago. They made history. Whenever this comes out.

Speaker 5 12:56

Oh well, they made it today, but the day of recording. Yes, they're the first ever like to be two Americans in the all-around. And then Simone she's the first US gymnast to win twice in the all-around.

Speaker 1 13:15

So how many medals does she have total?

Speaker 5 13:18

A lot. It was like eight. I think today was like eight.

Speaker 1 13:20

Well, that one swimmer.

Speaker 5 13:22

Katie Ledecky. Yeah, was it 13?, was it something?

Speaker 3 13:23

like that I think Well that one swimmer.

Speaker 1 13:24

Michael Phelps. No, the female swimmer, katie Ledecky. Yeah, was it 13?, was it something like that?

Speaker 5 13:27

I can't remember. I just know that she has 20 of the fastest times in the 15 meter 15 meter 1,500 meter, my bad.

Speaker 3 13:37

She knows her stuff.

Speaker 5 13:39

I watched it yesterday I watched it.

Speaker 1 13:46

But how old will she be? Because she was saying she was going to compete in the next one. I saw this just a couple of days ago. Now I've got all my numbers. I was thinking she was going to be like 31.

Speaker 5 13:51

And I thought that's an old age. Yes, I think that's right. Yeah, I think she's close to that.

Speaker 2 13:55

She's almost qualifying for our Senior Olympics.

Speaker 1 13:58

We talked about a couple episodes ago.

Speaker 2 13:59

That's right, and Rebecca mentioned that they actually do a Senior Olympics.

Speaker 5 14:03

There is a Senior Olympics. Is there really? Yeah, it's for senior adults. What's considered senior adult? I don't know. I should have looked it up before. You should have.

Speaker 3 14:12

But I assume it's, it's right there. I'm assuming Jody's creeping. Jody calls this a little black box.

Speaker 5 14:20

Yeah, Spencer will say that sometimes.

Speaker 2 14:22

I say, get out the box.

Speaker 5 14:23

Yeah, he does.

Speaker 2 14:25

I can't stand it. This is changing the subject, but I can't stand when we're sitting in the room and it's either just me and Rebecca or, even worse, when it's like your whole family sitting around, like our whole family in the room and everybody's just staring at their phone.

Speaker 5 14:40

As the person sometimes when we go out to eat just the two of us he will be on his phone.

Speaker 3 14:45

I said even worse. You've got to put your phone up when you're out to eat by yourself Also the Senior Olympics you have to at least be 50 years old.

Speaker 5 14:52

Darn, I didn't think 50 was old. I remember learning about this in classes in college, about the Senior Olympics.

Speaker 2 14:58

You were a sports major in college.

Speaker 5 15:00

That's what I'm saying. That's why I knew it was a thing when y'all were talking about it.

Speaker 1 15:03

But do you want to compete? Do you really feel?

Speaker 2 15:05

like you're an elite athlete at that age still I went and played golf and I'm 24 and I went and played this morning and I'm sore right now Like as a 24 year old. I can't imagine as a 50 year old.

Speaker 3 15:16

What are you doing? What kind of games are there? Are they the same thing, or or are they?

Speaker 2 15:20

I don't know, swimming is less.

Speaker 5 15:21

Well let's look it up how to qualify.

Speaker 1 15:23

It's not a full-fledged thing, right, it's going to be in San.

Speaker 5 15:25

Diego and Pasadena. This year it's going to be this year.

Speaker 3 15:30

Well, maybe 2025.

Speaker 5 15:32

Oh, oh, there's lots of you have to click on find contact information. Oh, too much.

Speaker 2 15:38

Too much. So basically you've got to and say, hey, I want to in, and then you go do it.

Speaker 1 15:42

They don't want too many people involved. Apparently that's right.

Speaker 5 15:45

Guess not, guess not.

Speaker 2 15:47

What else you got, Jody?

Speaker 1 15:48

Oh, I got all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 15:50

Other than awkward silence.

Speaker 1 15:51

Did y'all see the guy that had to dive in the pool to retrieve one of the caps?

Speaker 5 15:56

I did see that. Did you see that? It was funny.

Speaker 1 15:59

Bob the Cap Catcher.

Speaker 5 16:01

The cap catcher.

Speaker 1 16:02

Yeah, bob the cap. Catcher, catcher, bob the cap. Do you want to see the video?

Speaker 5 16:06

And he was so proud. He was so proud.

Speaker 1 16:09

Catcher, catcher, catcher, catcher, catcher, catcher, whatever the cap catcher that he was called upon to do this.

Speaker 5 16:15

It was very strange.

Speaker 3 16:16

Is that his only job? Was that his job?

Speaker 2 16:18

Probably so, just to make sure to fell off. Oh, I got it, but what the crazy thing is Was it in the middle of the race?

Speaker 5 16:24

No, nobody was in the pool.

Speaker 1 16:25

Oh, it was right before. Another one was fast started.

Speaker 3 16:27

You can't just get the Like a net the net.

Speaker 1 16:33

You can't just get the net. How about the swimmer that lost the? Hat Go get your hat, go get it.

Speaker 5 16:39

I say a hat the swim and get your own cap. Yeah, you wear two.

Speaker 1 16:42

They say a lot of them wear two. How do you wear two?

Speaker 3 16:44

I think a lot of them wear two of them and then your other one on top.

Speaker 5 16:48

A lot of them do that. How tight is that? That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 16:51

I think it's mostly the women who do that, though it's because of their hair Headphones are killing me right now.

Speaker 4 17:06

I couldn't imagine those things are tight. Y'all want to hear Bob, about Bob, let's hear about Bob. We can't have that at the bottom of the pool, so we're going to have to have someone dive in and go get it, but until then, these ladies Olympic. Oh, there it is, there it is.

Speaker 5 17:15

It's the swimsuit for me. Why?

Speaker 3 17:16

do you?

Speaker 2 17:17

have it on.

Speaker 4 17:33

I mean, look at that, right there he is ready.

Speaker 2 17:36

It was literally like barely in.

Olympic Events and Snoop Dogg

Speaker 4 17:41

Yeah, like he barely jumped in and won that. Oh, there it is, he's got the. Now he's ever going to live to keep the cap? That's the question. See, does that guy get a name? The Cap Catcher? That's what we need to call him.

Speaker 5 17:53

Bob the Cap Catcher, and now he is famous. Good job, bob Great job Bob. He was waiting for that.

Speaker 3 18:01

He was waiting for that.

Speaker 5 18:03

That was his.

Speaker 3 18:03

Olympic moment. That, for that he was waiting for that. That was his Olympic moment, that was the highlight of the day for him.

Speaker 2 18:06

So is that the Zamboni drivers the swimming.

Speaker 1 18:09

So he was ready to strip it all down. He was gone too.

Speaker 2 18:12

He had to have the zip up or rip off pants. He just ripped it off. If we'd had video of that.

Speaker 1 18:21

But I was hoping he was doing a 35 foot deep dive all the way to the bottom. But I was hoping he was doing like a 35-foot deep dive all the way to the bottom.

Speaker 5 18:25

Yeah, I mean because I was not impressed at all I know, he barely went in the swimming pools. Aren't that deep, right right, it's not like it was the diving pool.

Speaker 1 18:33

I need something more. They built it up. I heard the story before I saw it. They built it up and I'm like this was nothing.

Speaker 5 18:39

They build a pool on top of I don't know ground, I don't know. Yeah, even watching the videos is weird. They did that for the US Olympic swimming trials too. In where was?

Speaker 3 18:51

it Indianapolis. Yes, that Josh tried to go to. We heard about that. Oh, josh tried to go to. How long did?

Speaker 2 18:56

y'all hear about that About three weeks.

Speaker 5 18:59

It was really cool.

Speaker 3 19:00

I watched it he never went, which at that point went to about nine episodes.

Speaker 1 19:05

And Spencer, did he ever go? Absolutely not he got sick, he didn't go anywhere. He got sick. He got sick. Yeah, he built up a lot of trips he went to the beach.

Speaker 5 19:13

That's where he's going now. Yeah, the beach.

Speaker 1 19:16

So what about the river that they had? The competition?

Speaker 5 19:20

in oh, the Sim River, yeah, competition, yeah, that was unsafe to swim in well, the women swim in it, was it? Yes, was it this morning? I watched it may have been this morning, you know.

Speaker 1 19:28

I feel like that was kind of bad. Hey, we're gonna postpone the men, we're gonna let the women go tomorrow.

Speaker 5 19:34

But listen, the men swam and there's like video of this guy like they're like violently throwing up after swimming in it what was wrong.

Speaker 2 19:41

What's wrong with it?

Speaker 3 19:42

it has a high e coli um, and they knew this before doing this. Oh, they've known this for years, then why are we?

Speaker 5 19:48

doing.

Speaker 1 19:48

They spent billions of dollars trying to clean it up 1.5 billion, billions.

Speaker 5 19:54

Why are we doing over?

Speaker 1 19:55

the last nine years.

Speaker 5 19:56

They because I think, like the first olympics in paris and like the 1900s, they swam in it, and so I guess they want to be like yeah, yeah, we hosted it again.

Speaker 2 20:06

Why would you want to swim in a river of sin?

Speaker 3 20:10

No, good one.

Speaker 1 20:14

No, once they found out that they were going to have the Olympics there. The French government spent the last nine years cleaning up and is at 1.5 billion.

Speaker 3 20:21

And it still ain't good enough and it's still not clean.

Speaker 1 20:23

Well the rainfall.

Speaker 5 20:25

It had to do with all the rain during the opening ceremony that created all this that mixed with sewage and it overflowed, went into the river.

Speaker 1 20:34

and there you go, I'm out.

Speaker 3 20:36

As a swimmer. Why did you take that chance? Just because it's the Olympics?

Speaker 1 20:40

Well, you're gauging it by what they're telling you to do.

Speaker 5 20:43

If they're saying hey, this is the pinnacle of your career, but also you've got to think that these are like the triathlon people they swim in who knows what type of water anyway, because they're probably not training in a pool all the time.

Speaker 1 20:57

True, but you're thinking they said too, this thing. It's been a century. Nobody's been allowed to swim in this. Yeah.

Speaker 5 21:04

They said it's a law. You can get arrested if the French people or tourists or whatever, go and jump in the river. Yeah, but now we're going to have the Olympics. I'm impressed. You know all this because I'm obsessed.

Speaker 1 21:17

I know nothing. Oh don't, it's ridiculous. Oh don't. Let me say something. Amanda's got her head turned to me. She's looking at Rebecca. She's impressed about all the knowledge Rebecca has. I'm spurting out all kinds of facts over here.

Speaker 3 21:28

I don't have it written down. You've got a piece of paper. I'm sorry, she's got no paper.

Speaker 1 21:32

I even brought video of a guy in a Speedo.

Speaker 3 21:35

And she knew about it without the video.

Speaker 1 21:37

Well, she didn't bring the video I did not, I did not provide the video.

Speaker 5 21:41

She didn't know she could.

Speaker 3 21:43

She didn't know she could bring it I know I wasn't prepared for resources.

Speaker 5 21:47

If I did, I would have already looked up the Senior Olympics.

Speaker 1 21:50

Ask Spencer what he brought today.

Speaker 5 21:51

What'd you bring today? Me myself and I, you brought Rebecca. True.

Speaker 1 21:58

He did bring me. I kind of set you up. I didn't mean that.

Speaker 5 22:00

I just meant that you had no information.

Speaker 2 22:02

The most supportive part, gee.

Speaker 1 22:05

Thanks, jody, sorry I forgot we've got to stick together, since we're on this side of the table, that's right, the women are pulling together.

Speaker 5 22:12

We got this.

Speaker 1 22:13

All right, y'all want some facts about the swimming.

Speaker 2 22:16

Not really. Okay, never mind, then I like them.

Speaker 1 22:21

How many athletes do you think is competing?

Speaker 5 22:24

594.

Speaker 1 22:25

At least one A little bit higher.

Speaker 5 22:27

Oh wait, Was this Wait Total or US? I was specifically talking about the US.

Speaker 1 22:32

Let's go the whole shebang.

Speaker 5 22:34

Well, US is 594. So the whole.

Speaker 1 22:36

Olympics. How many we got 10,332. 10,332. Wow.

Speaker 2 22:43

You were very close. Come on.

Speaker 1 22:45

Maliki, if it was Josh saying that, you'd still be off by thousands.

Speaker 2 22:50

We're in the ballpark, 100,000.

Speaker 1 22:54

10,500. So how about?

Speaker 5 22:56

that that's a lot, a lot of people and you know they're featuring a new sport this year.

Speaker 1 23:01

Yes, what is it? Break dancing, and sport climbing.

Speaker 5 23:04

There's two new sports.

Speaker 3 23:05

What's that?

Speaker 5 23:06

I think sport climbing is new. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 1 23:09

Probably rock climbing, I assume, I know.

Speaker 5 23:10

No, it's called sport climbing is what it's called.

Speaker 3 23:12

But it is.

Speaker 2 23:13

It's rock climbing basically, but it's called sport climbing. Is it racing you?

Speaker 5 23:17

racing up a rock. They haven't premiered it yet.

Speaker 3 23:19

It hasn't happened. I guess I know what we're doing tonight. Jody, we got to watch the Middle East.

Speaker 1 23:24

Yeah, yeah, I can break dance. I thought you were going to break dance.

Speaker 5 23:27

But yeah, break dancing is new, that hasn't premiered yet Y'all might have to come see me tomorrow.

Speaker 2 23:31

Break dancing but they don't have baseball in there this year.

Speaker 1 23:34

Well, look, break dancing hasn't been around since what. Maybe, there's a small group.

Speaker 2 23:42

You and Amanda are on an island right here, I don't know about you?

Speaker 3 23:46

I was born in the 90s.

Speaker 1 23:47

There's two islands in here and we're not on the same one, no doubt. But there might be a small pocket in the world that's still breakdancing. That small pocket of people has got a big influence because if they got this on the Olympics, it's probably Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 5 24:01

It has to be represented.

Speaker 2 24:02

He's done everything else with it. What is up with Snoop?

Speaker 3 24:05

Dogg I don't know, but if you haven't seen him, you want one of the new pins, don't you? Is it Snoop Dogg pins?

Speaker 5 24:11

No, I do not want that. I'm confused why he's such a big deal this year in the Olympics.

Speaker 2 24:17

Sorry, snoop, it's all because with Martha Stewart.

Speaker 1 24:20

I blame it on Martha.

Speaker 3 24:21

What's Martha got to do with it?

Speaker 1 24:23

Yeah, remember they had a big thing.

Speaker 3 24:24

They had a show together and all that.

Speaker 1 24:26

So, yeah, I just blame it on her. Why not oh?

Speaker 5 24:29

well, I mean he carried the torch. That's like reserved for, like the highest of athletes we gave it to Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 1 24:39

I mean, come on.

Speaker 3 24:44

When's the last time he's done a push-up? I'm gonna keep that calm.

Speaker 1 24:45

I don't know how to lie, I'm just saying he's a skinny guy, I'm just saying he's not an athletic person, he's a rapper and he smokes dope.

Speaker 4 24:55

That's what he's known for. That's all he's known for.

Speaker 1 24:57

Let's put him.

Speaker 3 25:00

He's at the pinnacle of his career.

Speaker 5 25:06

He's coming after us, and then they have him talking like he's a sports journalist.

Speaker 1 25:09

I know let's pick him.

Speaker 5 25:10

I mean he gets the Olympic gear. That's not cool. We need his agent. That's not right.

Speaker 1 25:13

We need his agent because he's got a powerful agent. He's got a good agent.

Speaker 5 25:16

Yeah, yes, carry that torch. He yeah Torch. He's definitely got a good one.

Speaker 2 25:20

I heard him commentate badminton the other day.

Speaker 5 25:23

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 25:24

Made badminton 100 times more entertaining, not going to lie.

Speaker 1 25:28

He'd make anything more entertaining.

Speaker 2 25:30

Oh, it was hilarious.

Speaker 5 25:32

Oh, no doubt.

Speaker 1 25:33

I don't understand that as a sport either. In the Olympics Badminton, yeah.

Speaker 3 25:36

I love some badminton. Oh, I'm not saying it ain't fun. Why don't they?

Speaker 2 25:39

have pickleball in there.

Speaker 3 25:40

That's what I wonder.

Speaker 2 25:41

I'm waiting for it. I really am waiting for it. It's probably going to be in LA.

Speaker 5 25:44

I bet it'll be in there it has to be recognized To be an Olympic sport. It has to be recognized by so many countries in the world. So many countries have to participate in it. Are we late to the game? Probably so. But, I mean pickleball's been around for like forever. It's an old game.

Speaker 1 26:01

How long is forever, though. What's your forever? How old are you?

Olympic Sports and History

Speaker 5 26:06

I know that when I was a freshman in college so that was 2016, fall of 2016, spring of 17,. Pickleball was a thing. I went to observe a PE teacher and she was teaching pickleball to her kids and she's like it's the next up-and-coming thing and I'm like, okay, never heard about it again until, like you know, in the last couple years. But she was right, it's huge. But if you look it up, it was like created or whatever, a lot like a long time ago 1965 I wonder why it fell off I don't know, pickleball has been around yes, really, people think it's new, like it's brand new, but it's not.

Speaker 5 26:42

It's been around.

Speaker 2 26:43

Here's the story of Pickleball Three fathers From Bainbridge Island, washington, bill Bell what a name it involves a dog Named. Pickle Joel.

Speaker 1 26:53

No, barney, I admit this has been proven wrong.

Speaker 2 26:56

I think you're wrong, rebecca.

Speaker 5 26:58

No, wow. So there's these three dads. And in 1965, wow, they were.

Speaker 2 27:03

I do so there's these three dads, and in 1965, they were looking for a means to entertain themselves and their kids at one of their houses. And so, the three dads, they were going to say, hey, let's play some badminton.

Speaker 2 27:13

But they couldn't find the little birdie that you play with in badminton. And so instead they got a wiffle ball out, and so they had many other plastic balls and finally set on the a wiffle ball out, uh, and so they had many other plastic balls and finally set on the little wiffle ball they use. So they use different rackets, they use tennis, table tennis rackets, they use badminton rack well, why did they call it pickle?

Speaker 3 27:33

I ain't got there yet, man come on I can't read that fast.

Speaker 2 27:39

Uh, that's a low word.

Speaker 5 27:41

Let's see they say's about the dog, but people say that's also not true, there's like three stories. Yeah, there's like three stories about how it came up.

Speaker 2 27:49

How did pickleball get his name?

Speaker 5 27:51

But you just. I mean, if the dog story is one of the way that it's got his name, but there's also a boat story. I've not heard the boat story.

Speaker 2 28:00

So which is accurate? I don't know.

Speaker 5 28:03

We may never know because we weren't there. I was not alive in the 60s, Me neither. But the dog narrative is the official story that the United States Pickleball Association recognizes because of its commercial potential.

Speaker 1 28:24

Well of course I mean. Who wouldn't want to play a game that was named after a cute dog named Pickle? So is there like one person that trademarked this and is sitting back raking in?

Speaker 2 28:31

all kinds of dough right now you think Probably. Figures. That's what we should talk about one day Inventions that make you a lot of money, that seem like useless stuff.

Speaker 5 28:41

Bring it to the table, man, I just brought it listen, the little um things, the cardboard pieces that you put on your hot coffee, like how much money is that person making?

Speaker 2 28:51

oh, that's like oh yeah, you know what I'm saying, yeah I'm thinking more like the reflectors in the middle of a road oh, we're talking about things that are useless they're useful, but useful they seem useless well, what you're talking about is like something you're like.

Speaker 1 29:03

Why did I not think of that?

Speaker 5 29:04

Yeah.

Speaker 1 29:04

Okay.

Speaker 3 29:05

I thought that's the direction we're going. After the McDonald's incident they had to come up with that. The McDonald's incident.

Speaker 1 29:10

There's a McDonald's incident.

Speaker 3 29:11

Yeah.

Speaker 1 29:12

The hot coffee, the hot coffee and the lady getting like $15 million for getting burnt.

Speaker 5 29:17

I did not know about that one because they're young guns, anyway.

Speaker 3 29:21

Anyway, back to our story.

Speaker 2 29:22

Back to Olympics. What were we talking about?

Speaker 1 29:25

We were talking about. They added the two sports yeah. All right. Did you know that motorboat sailing used to be a sport that they took it away?

Speaker 5 29:33

That'd be fun, that would be fun, I know sailing is a sport.

Speaker 1 29:36

Yeah, I saw a video the other day.

Speaker 5 29:40

It is Most of the time. It is regular sailing.

Speaker 2 29:42

Well, there was a sailboat but there was like four guys on the side of a sailboat and they were like pedaling. What kind of sailing is that? Is that normal sailing?

Speaker 5 29:50

I don't know. I'd have to look it up.

Speaker 2 29:52

It was like four guys in the cycling position, literally riding a little tandem bike in there. That's weird and it was propelling the. I guess it was propelling the boat, like there's lots of different kinds, but there was also a sail.

Speaker 5 30:04

Because even with rowing there's like the four men, the four women, the eight, then they have like doubles, like there's lots of different things that go within like one division.

Speaker 2 30:13

I'm aware of that, so I don't know. I just want to know what kind of sailboat that is.

Speaker 1 30:18

I've always wanted to be the guy that sits on the front to tell, yeah, did y'all ever? Did y'all see that movie?

Speaker 3 30:23

the boys in the boat no, oh, it's a good one it's so good.

Speaker 5 30:27

It was about the olympic team that won gold um back in like the 80s, they did it again it was the four men that did it. I know it was so sweet 64 year.

Speaker 3 30:35

First time in 64 years they won I thought you was gonna say as a 64 year old no, it was these.

Speaker 5 30:42

They were young. They were probably in their 20s 30s. They looked young and they talked about how? Um no, I think they're like in their 20s, because I think the at least three of them row like for their school, or at least they did so in their 20s so did you know hot air ballooning was a thing also in the olymp?

Speaker 1 31:01

How do you do that? I did not know that. How do you raise a hot air balloon Exactly? But also, how is that athletic? And go.

Speaker 5 31:07

How is that athletic? You just gotta pull the fire. Thing right, like. That's like saying you're racing planes.

Speaker 1 31:15

That's not athletic, I know, but that's funny Look at that chilly little guy pulling the lever on the fire.

Speaker 5 31:25

Let somebody run in that a chilly little guy pulling the lever on the fire, let some air out of that thing. Oh no, that was a costly mistake.

Speaker 1 31:29

Too much air, drop the sandbag.

Speaker 2 31:33

We need Josh's female commentator voice.

Speaker 1 31:36

That was so terrible If he would have just said commentator. It was a perfect commentator voice. But he said female.

Speaker 4 31:43

I was like you're a guy making a weird noise.

Speaker 1 31:46

He was like it's kind of like if you're a horse rider and down the stretch they come. And he was saying it was his female impersonation. I was like no, that's just a commentator.

Speaker 2 31:53

That's just a commentator.

Speaker 3 31:57

Oh, poor Josh, Poor guy.

Speaker 1 31:58

We can talk about him. He's not here.

Speaker 3 32:00

That's right, he can't defend himself.

Speaker 1 32:01

All right, tug of war also used to be a sport Now that's something I can get behind.

Speaker 3 32:05

That would be fun. I have seen that in there.

Speaker 1 32:07

I have too. That would be so fun, yeah, but why do you do away with it? Yeah, that's why I'm saying why?

Speaker 2 32:18

Because when we Could you imagine, a bunch of Russians.

Speaker 1 32:22

So they're not in it, right no?

Speaker 5 32:24

they are not, yeah, because of all the bad things they've been doing.

Speaker 1 32:32

Just a bunch of guys named Vlad. Let's see, it's talking about things you're voted into and then sometimes you're voted out. Some disappear, then return like golf rugby. It has to do with.

Speaker 2 32:46

Rugby's bad right.

Speaker 5 32:48

But it has to do with the country that is hosting it too. So the country that's hosting, they get an opinion of requesting that certain sports are in it. So Tokyo won a baseball, and in LA in 28, we want softball. So we're going to add those things back into it. So, like Tokyo wanted baseball and like in LA in 28, we want softball, so we're going to add those things back into it.

Speaker 2 33:07

How about that? We're getting softball, let's do baseball, let's make some softball.

Speaker 5 33:10

Well, baseball may be in it too.

Speaker 2 33:11

I just know softball will be I don't know, softball is more fun to watch than baseball is.

Speaker 1 33:15

for being honest, the best fact that I saw and maybe y'all know this Rebecca might know this.

Speaker 3 33:20

Rebecca knows it. Rebecca knows it If.

Speaker 1 33:22

I'd have had her phone number, I'd have shot her a text and said hey, just bring all the Olympic knowledge you got to this and we're going to listen All right. Did you know that on these games, the gold, silver and the bronze medals in this year's games contain metallic elements? She's shaking her head over there.

Speaker 4 33:38

From the Eiffel Tower, from the Eiffel.

Speaker 3 33:40

Tower. Can I speak? She stole it from me. He does not like to be invited. That's where I live with. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 5 33:47

I'm never going to be invited back. I can mute your mic he will Mute it, he will.

Speaker 1 33:54

So it's got metallic elements from the Eiffel Tower's original frame, so I thought that was pretty cool. I thought that was really cool, so do they have like a beam that was like thrown underneath the Eiffel Tower and it's hey, let's use this.

Speaker 5 34:05

We'll melt something down and throw it in the sea. They remodeled, or like. What is it called when you fix something like that Refurbish. Refurbish. It was like from like when they refurbished it.

Speaker 1 34:18

I can't remember what year it was now.

Speaker 5 34:19

I would like to have something that Paris, like France, did, or Paris did.

Speaker 1 34:23

I hate that you bursted my bubble. I'm sorry, I was pretty excited about that.

Speaker 2 34:26

It is exciting.

Speaker 5 34:29

I mean that's cooler than the poster they get when they win, Like that's kind of lame.

Speaker 3 34:34

A poster.

Speaker 5 34:34

Yeah, so you know, they get their medals and then they get handed this cardboard tube. It just contains a poster.

Speaker 1 34:46

It's the official Olympic posteric poster.

Speaker 5 34:47

But like that's lame compared to like what they've gotten in the past, like the cute little mascot and flowers. That's way. That's way cooler than just a poster poster.

Speaker 1 34:54

I don't want a poster either how much are the medals worth now? 15, was it like 15 000 or something that.

Speaker 5 35:01

And you know that the athletes, when they win a medal, they get money too Do they. Mm-hmm, the countries supposedly pay them. So I saw earlier that Simone, for winning gold, is supposed to get $15,000 from the US.

Speaker 2 35:17

Is that?

Speaker 5 35:17

all I know, maybe it wasn't $15,000. Maybe it was a little bit more, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 35:28

But there was some other country that their gold medalist was getting like extremely more like way more than like we we would. I wonder what the rules are on sponsorships, because I bet they like hold you in a fine line when it comes to you know it should be an olympic competition.

Speaker 2 35:36

What, in 2028, is that, when the next one in la is gonna be next summer?

Speaker 5 35:40

to be.

Speaker 2 35:40

It's the next summer one A Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Speaker 1 35:43

Heck yeah, or heck to the yeah.

Speaker 5 35:46

That would be disgusting. I would not watch that I watch every sport in the Olympics, but I will not watch that.

Speaker 1 35:51

And then, right behind it, the lemonade drinking contest. Did you see that?

Speaker 5 35:56

It was chugging. There was a lady, I don't know, I've never heard of a lemonade drinking contest.

Speaker 1 36:01

That's a good segue, yeah, when they were chugging and then when they let it rip I'm talking it was the worst thing I think I might have ever seen.

Speaker 3 36:12

The thing about it was why do you want to do that?

Speaker 1 36:16

The person was not going off the stage, or nothing.

Speaker 4 36:19

I don't know.

Speaker 1 36:19

It was almost like the person was frozen when they started throwing up.

Speaker 3 36:23

Gross and it was just going everywhere, that's disgusting.

Speaker 1 36:25

It was like the guy beside was kind of patting him on the back.

Speaker 5 36:30

Oh, I'm sorry I've got to go back to this.

Speaker 1 36:33

I'm sorry, we're done. Hold on, no, I've got to correct.

Speaker 5 36:35

So US athletes, if they win gold, they get $37,500, $22,500 for silver and then $15,000 for bronze.

Speaker 2 36:46

Bronze.

Speaker 1 36:46

Bronze yeah, wow, well, that's right there. A lot of them probably say, hey, I'm for the cash value more than just winning that thing around my neck, hmm, all right?

Speaker 2 36:58

Did y'all see the boxing news with the Olympics? Which one? The one where the biological male Punched a Biological female?

Speaker 1 37:07

Shame on him. Right, I know, right that first punch.

Speaker 2 37:10

And then she, the girl she's like. No, thank you.

Speaker 3 37:12

She's like that was the hardest punch I ever had in my life. Well, duh.

Speaker 1 37:16

I had heard that it might have Broken nose also. I don't know if that's true.

Speaker 5 37:19

I'm thoroughly shocked. They let her in, but they Him that's biological male that wanted to be let in for the women's swimming got denied but by the us though but I also heard that it might have something to do with what's on your uh application what do you need to get out of the country?

Speaker 2 37:42

passport passport that it depends on what your passport, but the one with the us the, the guy that was trying to compete the women swimming in the us, I think the us olympic. You're right, I think it in the US.

Speaker 5 37:52

I think the US Olympic. You're right, I think it was the US Shut that down at the trials.

Speaker 2 37:54

They said no, thank you, Goodbye.

Speaker 5 37:56

Because it's wrong.

Speaker 2 37:57

So you can go swimming with guys.

Speaker 3 38:05

Well, as a woman, I don't want to fight a man. I don't want to.

Speaker 2 38:09

I mean a man does, why would?

Speaker 3 38:10

you as a woman, that doesn't make any difference. I don't know how far we're going to get into this, but I just want to say we just might better hug.

Speaker 1 38:17

Say what you want to say, it doesn't matter. But I'm just going to say me being who I am, I just don't feel it's right if I try and act like I'm a female and I emails up what kind of? What I mean.

Speaker 3 38:30

I mean take it out of the box. So, if everybody, if everybody forfeits they just win gold.

Speaker 2 38:37

That man is acting like a in the women's sport.

Speaker 5 38:40

But look, I think they just want to do that because they know they're not good enough to win in the men's bracket. Exactly, exactly.

Speaker 1 38:47

It's like an esteemed thing. Well, I'm not good enough for this. I'll go over here and beat these people up.

Speaker 2 38:52

All right, let's get off of that.

Speaker 5 38:53

Anyway, good one who brought it up.

Abandoned Buildings and Unfinished Projects

Speaker 2 38:55

I'm the one shutting it down too.

Speaker 1 38:57

All right. Did you know that Paris' public transportation system has approved more than 3,000 agents with AI-supported translation devices that help hundreds of thousands of people navigate through the city? That's cool. I thought that was kind of cool Look at AI yeah look at AI go.

Speaker 5 39:12

I know actually doing something useful, right, Instead of writing people's papers, exactly.

Speaker 1 39:19

That's not useful.

Speaker 5 39:20

No, it is plagiarism.

Speaker 1 39:22

What do y'all think about this? There will be no air conditioning in the athletes' rooms.

Speaker 5 39:29

Yeah, and they're sleeping on cardboard beds, like their beds are made of cardboard, like the frame they have a mattress though but the mattress is like that's cardboard fishnets from fish.

Speaker 5 39:38

It actually is holding up pretty good, and I saw this one at I think he's on the men's volleyball team. He was like he sat on something like the cardboard, something he's like I don't know what this is, but it's not just straight cardboard, because there's no way that it would withstand this, so why it has to do Paris like. So. The problem with the Olympics period is like there's lots of cities.

Speaker 2 40:02

That's the other guy, Jody.

Speaker 5 40:03

Sorry, this is my master's coming into play. Learn about this.

Speaker 1 40:07

I'm going to mute my mic.

Speaker 5 40:12

But there's a lot of cities that don't even want to host the Olympics anymore, because it's like they spend billions of dollars to do all these venues and like all this stuff and then, after the Olympics are over, like what happens to it? Nothing, like they don't use it. So Paris is trying to like, be eco-friendly. That's what. So like a lot of their venues are just temporary, like they're going to be torn down or whatever paper straws too, yeah probably so that you know they probably don't even have straws, probably don't even offer the straws.

Speaker 5 40:35

I'm done, I ain't going to paris I watched a documentary one time about paper straws.

Speaker 1 40:39

They went to about paper straws yeah, that's why disney world too unbelievable how interesting it was. I bet it blew your socks off, amanda's gonna choke.

Speaker 5 40:50

Amanda's going to choke.

Speaker 1 40:55

It was about all the Olympic complexes that had been built in all these countries that grass was growing in it.

Speaker 2 41:00

They look creepy and there was no busted wind and stuff.

Speaker 1 41:05

I want to go walk around these abandoned stadiums. Yeah, and they also said that none of these countries ever make money. They spend billions of dollars to build this stuff and don't make money off of doing it.

Speaker 2 41:12

I want to go walk around these abandoned stadiums, but also to me. It's dumb.

Speaker 5 41:17

Why would you not make it into a stadium? It's already a stadium.

Speaker 2 41:21

In Atlanta. They did with the football stadium when football was in the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996.

Speaker 5 41:27

Because us Americans are smart.

Speaker 2 41:29

Well, they just turned it into the baseball stadium, to the Braves stadium. It's Turner Field.

Speaker 5 41:34

Yeah, and I mean they've already talked about LA. They're going to use some existing stadiums for the LA Olympics.

Speaker 2 41:42

Why would you not? That's like in Georgia.

Speaker 1 41:46

I visited a place where it was the river where they're going to do kayak and whitewater raft and all this kind of stuff. They had a museum set up to where it was, uh, with the river, where they're gonna do kayak and whitewater raft and all this kind of stuff. They had museums set up to where it showed, where they brought in the boaters and stuff and they put them in there to make the water, you know, rapid. You know that they could use, which is pretty cool and all that I mean, it wasn't something that you're you know you're gonna do away with.

Speaker 1 42:04

It's just stuff like that.

Speaker 2 42:05

Well, I mean in in georgia, around gainesville, up around lake lanier when they rode in 1996 Olympics. You can still see the tower that was there. They still do rowing stuff out there. That's where at least some of them were actually training at Lake Lanier when I was in college.

Speaker 1 42:26

Up there, some of the Olympic people Crazy, they were saying, about this air conditioning thing Paris has pledged to host, to be the greenest ever when it comes to this they're trying to be eco-friendly, why do you give? Her the air do you think the government officials don't have air in their offices?

Speaker 5 42:46

I'm not sure they do but what's really funny is that one of the men's gymnasts from the US. He ordered a mattress and sent it to Paris so that he would have a mattress when he got there. That's thinking right there and he posted a video about it and it was hilarious.

Speaker 1 43:03

You're talking about abandoned stuff. Me and Amanda got on the thing yesterday of mansions on YouTube that have been abandoned. One was Barbara Mandrell and one was Kenny Rogers.

Speaker 2 43:15

I'm subscribed to some people on YouTube that go through and they fly drones through abandoned schools and hospitals. Hospitals are creepy. I wouldn't want to do that.

Speaker 3 43:23

Well, these were mansions, the schools and the mansions.

Speaker 1 43:25

They were cool. I'd like to walk through those. And it told a story about how they've gone from investment company to investment company. Right, they bought it for millions of dollars and it's still just sitting there.

Speaker 2 43:35

Yeah, you know it ain't done yet. There was even a church. There was one that I saw that was an old church, a mega church, yeah. You seen that one? Yeah, it was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 43:45

I want to go walk through these places.

Speaker 2 43:46

that stuff just run but it's still so cool, though, when you get all through the ruins of something oh yeah, and you just get to imagine what this used to be like.

Speaker 1 43:56

Yeah, but it's prime I like ruins from like a hundred or plus years ago not from, like you know, 25 years ago because, we ran out of money to finish the that.

Speaker 5 44:06

Well, there's a place, there's a church back home. It's close to Sibley, which is close to Minden, if you don't know, louisiana.

Speaker 2 44:15

You don't have to tell them their address.

Speaker 5 44:17

I don't know the address, but anyway, there's a church that it literally was being built. I remember traveling to ballgames when I was in sixth grade and it was still being built. And here we are now, however, many years later and so and like it's still unfinished it's literally, you can see the scaffolding you can see the scaffolding still there like it's like somebody.

Speaker 2 44:38

Just they just quit, they did they brick the whole outside, but they never put windows in, and so no windows, yeah you just see the framing on the inside. They never finished the inside at all in the church.

Speaker 5 44:48

Supposedly, the church that was building it was building it like a little bit as a at a time when they got the money and it was supposed to be right next door.

Speaker 2 44:56

Well, now you drive by and the church sign isn't even in there, isn't even there anymore, so it's like the church may not even exist I kind of want to walk through it next time we go, but I don't know who owns the land and I don't want to get arrested or trespassed.

Speaker 3 45:06

Well, isn't that like a house by your grandmother's house Used to? They built the house but then nobody ever lived in it. Never got finished, did it?

Speaker 1 45:16

So they built a house Really nice house, nice house. Now, this was 30 years ago now or longer. Yeah, really nice house. They had rolls of carpet in the basement and all that stuff ready to go in there and the guy had passed away, had a heart attack or something like that Passed away, and so it never got finished and it sat there, and then it sat there, it sat there, I sat there I don't know. I don't know how long it might still be there.

Speaker 4 45:40

Just sitting there.

Speaker 1 45:41

But you could.

Speaker 5 45:52

You could go over there and look in the house.

Speaker 2 45:53

I just like either I've heard this story before or there's been another story like that that I've heard, probably another story.

Speaker 5 45:56

Well, seems to happen a lot, probably.

Speaker 3 45:58

Sadly Around here.

Speaker 2 46:01

I would like to go. I would like to go on those, those what are they called, I don't know Point of view drones where you put the little headset on and you can see literally what the camera is, and fly around one of those places, like the abandoned stadiums and stuff.

Speaker 3 46:15

What was the drone we watched yesterday? What did it fly through? Oh, the peak, the highest peak which is one of those mountains it sure is oh, what's his name? Everest, yes, yeah not our josh not our josh, not our josh. Well, josh gates, yeah, josh gates, yeah, so we watched, so we watched.

Speaker 1 46:35

They had a drone that was cool. It went from base camp one base camp one all the way it went up to the very top. I didn't even know they could take a drone up there.

Speaker 2 46:42

I didn't know one could go that high I didn't know it did Cool, it was good. I watched some drones lately. Spring crops.

Speaker 1 46:52

If you watch. I didn't mean to kill you. I was like I'll forget what I was going to say Go ahead. But if you watch it, you really, because they're doing it fast, you know they sped up the video to where you see people that are actually trekking up the side of the mountain that you see. You get a better opportunity of like how far it is to get up there. It just, it goes and goes and goes and some people don't make it back down.

Speaker 2 47:18

Yeah, Sad oh green boots Green boots, I was about to say there's a guy that died.

Speaker 1 47:23

A lot of times when people die up there, they just that's where they're at and they never come back down Because they can't, they can't move them, and there's a guy that's on the main trail and he's got a pair of green boots and, uh, everybody just steps beside him as they're going up and they come back by him that's terrible, I think he was there for three years, I think it was, and then they finally just recently moved him. That's the only reason I knew it, because they moved him. So how about that?

Speaker 3 47:47

so how about we got off?

Speaker 4 47:48

subject so would, so would you get so yes, now we're off

Speaker 5 47:51

the, since we're off the Olympic path. We're off the beaten path. We're off the beaten path. Yeah, I have nothing to say now.

Hospital Elevator Panic and Olympic Highlights

Speaker 1 47:56

So if you so? Rebecca's done, so yeah, y'all are good with like breaking into abandoned places then and checking it out.

Speaker 5 48:04

Oh, that's creepy.

Speaker 1 48:05

Hold on, don't let me. You can change that. The door is unlocked. You might not have permission.

Speaker 2 48:10

I would want permission.

Speaker 1 48:11

All right. All right, we have permission, I would go.

Speaker 5 48:14

I'd totally go, but they say watch out Is it in the daytime.

Speaker 1 48:17

Because there's bad vibes up there, I'd go.

Speaker 5 48:19

I'd go?

Speaker 1 48:20

Would you go to an insane asylum?

Speaker 2 48:22

that's been shut down, Absolutely not In the middle of the day yeah.

Speaker 1 48:25

I think the daytime, I think. I would, because you'd end up in the basement. You wouldn't know it was daytime.

Speaker 5 48:31

And what, if, you like, a door shuts behind you and it's like one of those like protect security thing and you get stuck.

Speaker 2 48:43

I did watch a video of somebody trying to sneak into an old prison.

Speaker 1 48:45

Oh, you get locked in.

Speaker 2 48:46

They got trapped, no, they got in, but the prison was still being watched by somebody in the government, you know. And so they got in. They were walking around and all of a sudden, all the alarms just start going off, the fire alarms all the alarms, and so they just panic. They just hunker down in the basement of the prison. They just hunker down until folks walk by and then get out of there.

Speaker 5 49:06

Yeah, no, thank you.

Speaker 2 49:08

I wouldn't want to do that because that was at night.

Speaker 3 49:10

No, thank you, I wouldn't want to do that because that was at night Speaking of locked in somewhere when we were at the hospital Monday I almost started freaking out, did?

Speaker 2 49:16

you get locked in.

Speaker 3 49:19

The elevator would not go anywhere.

Speaker 5 49:20

Did you have to have a special key card?

Speaker 3 49:22

Yes, but we didn't know that.

Speaker 1 49:26

You were trying to wear the no, it was messing up.

Speaker 2 49:28

No, it was messing up, so you weren't supposed to.

Speaker 3 49:29

So we got out Like it didn't go anywhere and I'm like we're going to get locked in here and we went.

Speaker 3 49:38

We had to go up or down, I can't remember Down, okay, so we went down. Well, that was the only key access. So we had to come back up the steps oh no good. And the steps oh no good. And we've done it again. We got back in the elevator and tried it again and it still didn't work. But these other people were going, we were going to three and they were going to two, so it would go to level two.

Speaker 3 50:01

but it wouldn't go to three third floor so we finally went and told the nurse and she's like oh, it's not working again, you need my card. So she comes over there, swapped her card and it worked well, we were leaving like I was.

Speaker 2 50:14

I got I was freaking out, so we walked out into that little hallway where we were gotten elevators and we were on like level three, I think, at that time and we were trying to go back up to level four and I pressed up but we did not go to the same level four that we came from.

Speaker 5 50:32

No, it was a completely different space there was random jerseys.

Speaker 2 50:36

everywhere it was from the doctor that works there.

Speaker 3 50:38

It was really cool because the doctor oh, were y'all in the wrong elevator? Yeah, probably were. Y'all were in the wrong elevator. I didn't know there was a difference in elevators, it was cool because it was the guy who did Drew Brees' surgery.

Speaker 5 50:51

It it was cool because it was the guy who did Drew Brees' surgery. It had Drew Brees' jersey and his helmet. It's like thank you for saving my career. So I took a picture of it.

Speaker 4 50:57

It was awesome and so we ended up going back.

Speaker 2 50:59

That's where all the we went back in and then went down a level and ended up on the right level.

Speaker 3 51:04

It was like whoa what it was weird when you go to Jody's doctor.

Speaker 5 51:08

That's what it is. It's Andrew Sports Medicine, Andrew Sports Medicine. Yeah, it was really cool. I was in awe. I was like this is awesome.

Speaker 2 51:14

Well then, we got to the parking deck and we parked on the other side of the hospital because we didn't know where we were going. Women's and children yeah, but there was this lady came up to us and she said y'all could just hide me in here. I don't know where I'm at. And so then we get out into the parking deck and we drive around, no hold on.

Speaker 5 51:33

So she follows us into the elevator or whatever, and so we get to the part where it's like the lobby. The lobby where you have to exit one elevator to go to another elevator to get to the parking deck. And so she's like, well, this kind of looks familiar, so I'll kind of walk around here. And we're like, okay, so we leave her and she starts walking out to the parking deck. Well, we're exiting, and here she is just wandering around the parking deck and I was like poor lady.

Speaker 2 51:58

She's literally in the middle of the exit line.

Speaker 5 52:00

She's just like where am I going? That's horrible. Bless her Lost. I hope she made it out.

Speaker 1 52:06

You know that is a difficult hospital to maneuver.

Speaker 2 52:09

That was the first time I've ever been there. It was wild.

Speaker 5 52:11

I don't want to go back. That was a lot.

Speaker 2 52:14

And I know that UAB is worse than that one.

Speaker 5 52:16

Yeah, uab is bad, and that's what she said.

Speaker 3 52:17

She said and this ain't nothing compared to UAB.

Speaker 2 52:20

I said well, I ain't been there either, so I don't know. Yeah, it was massive.

Speaker 3 52:26

It was crazy. That was my scary story this week. I just knew we were going to be stuck in the elevator and we were going to miss the surgery. Because we're stuck in the elevator, we can't get out Elevators.

Speaker 2 52:38

Do freak me out, but you weren't really stuck.

Speaker 1 52:39

You were just pushing the button and it would just stay red for a minute and then kick off.

Speaker 3 52:42

I know, but I felt like we were stuck.

Speaker 5 52:45

Well, there was a pregnant lady on the elevator with us and I was just like Lord, please don't let her go into labor and this elevator gets stuck.

Speaker 1 52:52

Oh, ain't that? Yeah, Don't put me on the elevator with a pregnant lady. Nothing against a pregnant lady, but I ain't delivering no baby.

Speaker 2 52:59

My first aid certification. Ain't handling that Amen.

Speaker 5 53:02

It's like I know first aid and CPR, but mm.

Speaker 1 53:05

That corner of that elevator ain't deep enough. Enough for me to hide in Crawl on the roof.

Speaker 5 53:11

No.

Speaker 1 53:11

Oh my goodness Craziness. Anything else. With the Olympics I got more Always.

Speaker 5 53:20

I love the Olympics so good, rebecca says she can talk all night on the Olympics.

Speaker 2 53:25

So, what do you want to know? What do you want to?

Speaker 3 53:26

know about the Olympics. Which sport are we?

Speaker 1 53:27

talking about now I don't know what do you want to? We can go which sport? Are we talking about now. I don't know. What do you want to go back to? Should we spice up?

Speaker 5 53:32

a sport. Can we talk about the men's gymnastics winning bronze for the first time since 2008? That was so sweet.

Speaker 1 53:39

Tell us about it.

Speaker 5 53:40

So sweet it was, it was awesome. And the crazy thing is the guy, the oldest guy on the team. He just relearned how to walk from a massive knee injury, literally like from like last year, like insane and he came back and he, you know, competed on all the events and they won bronze. And can we talk about the one guy that?

Speaker 3 54:04

he was only there to do the pommel horse. We haven't watched anything. I don't know any of this. Oh no, we haven't watched anything.

Speaker 5 54:10

Have you seen the guy that was just there to do the pommel horse? No, and it was the last event. It was like Clark Kent. The last event of the entire team final and he was the last one to go, and so he comes out and it's up to him for them to medal. It is up to him and he comes and he kills it.

Speaker 1 54:26

No pressure, no pressure.

Speaker 5 54:28

He killed it.

Speaker 3 54:30

It was awesome. Do you record this if you're not home and then watch it?

Speaker 1 54:33

I stream it live, you have to remember. The only thing I watched was a guy in a Speedo jump down and get a cap out the bottom of the water. Nothing, I've watched a little bit. You know they play the replays at like 2 o'clock in the morning At primetime.

Speaker 5 54:48

Well, they do primetime at 7.

Speaker 2 54:49

Yeah, they play it again at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 5 54:50

Yeah, they do. That's what I'm getting at, because I've watched it. Well, they replay primetime at 2.

Speaker 2 54:54

Every time it comes on, yeah.

Speaker 5 54:55

But no, I stream the men's final and I stream the women's final if I'm not home.

Speaker 3 55:00

Oh my.

Speaker 5 55:01

And he takes okay, what's crazy is he takes his glasses off to do the pommel horse horse and he even said in her interview with hoda from um hoda from the today show that he cannot like when he takes his glasses off. He doesn't see his daughter he just it's a feeling he can't see, like I'm like, oh my gosh, this guy's crazy that's how I feel when I take my glasses off, exactly I cannot like.

Speaker 1 55:25

He's awesome. That's why I wear mine so I can see.

Speaker 2 55:27

That's why I wear mine every day.

Speaker 5 55:29

I need to do it yeah, we need to do some adulting things we do schedule dentist appointments, eye doctor appointments you know all the fun things?

Speaker 1 55:40

did y'all notice how the water there's always water like falling in the pool for the divers.

Speaker 2 55:46

Yeah, it's so because if it's, if it's still, so they can see the surface of the water.

Speaker 5 55:50

Yeah, because if it's still, they can't tell where the surface is and they could misjudge their landing.

Speaker 2 55:54

Very good. It seriously hurts. Very good. See how simply I put that and she just had to explain it for 30 seconds.

Speaker 1 55:59

She had a woman explain it to you. That's right.

Speaker 5 56:01

I'm the kid on the like the essay question, not the essay questions like where your teacher's looking for like one sentence and I write like 75.

Speaker 1 56:09

All right, rebecca, miss Know-It-All. What's the temperature of the Olympic diving pools? Probably in, like the 80s. I want the Celsius.

Speaker 5 56:22

I don't know conversions.

Speaker 4 56:25

I'm from the United States.

Speaker 5 56:26

We don't use that system here.

Speaker 1 56:29

Roughly 82.

Speaker 5 56:30

Yep, celsius, no Fahrenheit. I was going to guess 81. I knew it was in the 80s.

Speaker 1 56:35

Yeah, we'll give it to you Close enough. You didn't go over, so we'll give it to you.

Speaker 5 56:39

There you go, I was under.

Speaker 1 56:41

So how deep is an Olympic-sized diving pool? It's like 20-something feet, I wanted meters.

Speaker 5 56:48

I told you I live in the United States. We do not use the metric system.

Speaker 1 56:52

I'm asking the question remember 16 foot, I said 20.

Speaker 5 56:56

How?

Speaker 2 56:57

many meters is that.

Speaker 1 56:59

Five meters, five meters. I would have known that. I don't know conversions.

Speaker 2 57:03

Meters are about a yard, three yard. How long was a meter? About a yard.

Speaker 5 57:07

I have absolutely no idea 16 foot.

Speaker 2 57:09

No, that couldn't be right.

Speaker 5 57:10

I haven't done that in forever, I don't know, and it was like listed for me.

Speaker 2 57:14

I should probably know that.

Speaker 5 57:16

Yeah, you taught math last year. You should. You probably had to teach them how to do these conversions.

Speaker 2 57:21

No, I taught kids how to add and subtract honey.

Speaker 1 57:23

All right, let's test her right here. Oh my gosh this is stressful. Darn. What colors are the five rings?

Speaker 5 57:32

um, green, yellow, black red. Green, yellow, black red. Oh, it's on a white flag, so it's not white gold. Wait, I already said that one green, yellow, black, red, blue.

Speaker 1 57:49

That's pretty good.

Speaker 5 57:53

I forgot the first one. Pretty good, I knew it wasn't white, because it's on a white background. I could have told you she's stumping. I ain't got nothing else.

Speaker 1 57:59

You could have asked me how many rings are there, and I could have said I know how many were there.

Speaker 3 58:03

I could have guessed, not the colors.

Speaker 2 58:05

Yeah, what's the colors? What's the colors mean? I can't remember.

Speaker 1 58:10

I don't want to read about it. I've got it right here. I was like I don't remember. Why is there a specific?

Speaker 2 58:13

number of rings.

Speaker 5 58:14

It says it right here, it has something to do with like the countries or whatever.

Speaker 1 58:19

Let us know in the comments there you go Listener participation. It got canceled in 393 A later, when it started back Right.

Speaker 5 58:29

In Paris, so that's why it was such a cool thing, like the people that created the modern day games, like they were in Paris.

Speaker 1 58:38

Cool. How many times has it been in Paris?

Speaker 5 58:40

Paris. This is the third. Very good, my goodness.

Speaker 1 58:45

What were the years?

Speaker 5 58:46

It was like I think it was 1900, 1924, and 2024.

Speaker 1 58:50

Good night. She knows it all. I'll be back here if you need me. Me too, I love the Olympics. The first Olympic Games took place in Greece, athens. What year BC?

Speaker 5 59:04

I don't know. I learned that a long time ago.

Speaker 1 59:07

Like BC.

Speaker 5 59:08

I literally learned that in my history of health and physical education class.

Speaker 2 59:12

It's 400-something BC right.

Speaker 1 59:14

I'm disappointing Dr Tinsley. Actually it was Coach Tinsley. It says 776.

Speaker 5 59:19

BC. I knew that I taught that to my students two years ago too. Should have known.

Speaker 1 59:24

An ancient Greek festival.

Speaker 3 59:26

Yep, hmm, all right Well there you go and women were not allowed to compete in those first ones let alone even like oh my gosh, they weren't even allowed to be there.

Speaker 5 59:41

They weren't even allowed to watch. Where did we go wrong?

Speaker 1 59:44

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 59:45

You know, this is the first Olympics where there's 50% women and 50% men competing.

Speaker 1 59:50

I saw that. This is why I'm not watching it, yeah.

Speaker 2 59:52

Isn't that so cool Can't have. I'm not watching it.

Speaker 1 59:55

Whatever Can't be 51-49%, can it? Nope, got to be 50-50.

Speaker 4 59:59

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 1:00:00

If we'd have kept it like it is, that guy wouldn't have punched that girl in the box and wouldn't have been talking about it, whatever.

Speaker 2 1:00:08

alright, I think it's about time for us to wrap this puppy up.

Speaker 4 1:00:11

You think so?

Speaker 2 1:00:11

I'm ready for these Olympics to be over and this puppy no, we still have a whole nother week of Olympics.

Podcast Planning and Goodbyes

Speaker 1 1:00:16

I'm tired of Rebecca being over it all over. I love the Olympics I have a feeling if we're trying to go into something else, she's going to bring it back up.

Speaker 2 1:00:27

She's going to go home.

Speaker 1 1:00:27

Yeah, no, me and Spencer are looking at each other, me and you just talking.

Speaker 2 1:00:30

That's right.

Speaker 1 1:00:31

Forget them right now.

Speaker 2 1:00:32

Build the wall, build that wall.

Speaker 1 1:00:37

Hey, we enjoyed having y'all here, yeah, thank you for being on Enjoyed being here. You want to invite them back for the next episode. I think that's good, we can do that. We can do it episode.

Speaker 2 1:00:52

It'll be thursday's episode, sure, why?

Speaker 1 1:00:52

not. I think that's right. Yeah, josh won't be back yet. I'll be good, I'll come back. Thursday early, thursday morning very early this thursday all right, you know I had something else I was going to bring to the table I'll do it next episode, maybe next time. Yeah, because I'm tired Me too, Alright, thanks for listening. Listen to our next episode, when you might hear Spencer say hey, follow us, hang out with us, bye.