Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] So yeah when I have a thought I gotta let it out It's a bright spot that I can't even doubt my opinions, my point of view Even if things are a little tripped and sweet so yeah even if you disagree so yeah Even if I'm not in your pedagree so yeah Especially if you agree I so yeah so, so, so, so yeah.
[00:00:38] Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever and whenever you're listening to it. Welcome to the so yeah podcast with your girl, Caroline M. Diamond.
[00:00:54] And I'm coming to you with another. We've had so many special episodes for this season of the Sew yeah Podcast and we're gonna going, okay, we're gonna keep the special podcast episodes coming and this week's episode is special because the Olympics have just finished. And you might not know this about me, but I am a die hard Olympics watcher. Okay? I love the Olympics. I've always loved the Olympics. Okay? Like since birth, been watching the Olympics those two weeks I am planted in front of my television and I do, I would say I would. I like the Summer Olympics just a little bit more than the winter ones. I feel like for me there's more sports that I enjoy full circle in the Summer Olympics than the Winter Olympics. But alas, I so watch it. I'll watch kind of anything. Although I have to say that this year I was stuck and I mean stook watching figure skating. And I don't know if my memory is eluding me, which it probably is.
[00:02:13] I'm 31 now, so I can't remember everything anymore.
[00:02:18] I don't recall that the Olympics and during the Olympics that figure skating went on for this many days. I swear to God it was two weeks straight of figure skating.
[00:02:29] Has it always been that way? Because I swear it was like four or five days of figure skating and then I would have to watch like skiing and snowboarding. Like I don't recall that. I watched figure skating for literally 12 days. But alas.
[00:02:43] Am I complaining? Absolutely noodly. No. But I was just like, oh my God. Every day I'm like, it's like a part time job at the Olympics for me to watch any of the games and I was, I wouldn't watch prime time because like I want to know what everybody and how everyone is competing. So I would watch the feed, okay? Not the venue feed because I don't like the camera angles that they provide, but the, the full part one and part two of all the skating. And first of all, before I get into like all like the people and Stuff like that.
[00:03:17] I have a bone to pick with NBC slash peacock. Okay.
[00:03:22] There were a couple days where I couldn't watch the figure skating within the 24 hours. Like the full kitten caboodle. The full episode, I would say. And after 24 hours, it would go off. It would go off the replays. And I, I reached out to my handy dandy tick tock and I asked what the is the problem here? Because I got a bone to pick. I got issues at hands, and one of my lucky fans, or God to the hashtag whatever, said that it's because of music licensing. And I say that's.
[00:03:57] Keep it on line.
[00:04:02] I'll say it again.
[00:04:04] Keep it online. Why can I watch a hockey game? That was two weeks ago at this point, and I can't watch figure skating from two nights ago? That is a travesty.
[00:04:15] And there were a lot of performances that I missed. I missed a lot of the pairs, and I love pairs. I love the rhythm dance. I missed Evan Bates and Madison Chalk. I needed my chalk and Bates.
[00:04:28] I missed it, and I was upset. Did I watch it at prime time? Yes, but that's not enough.
[00:04:35] That's not enough for me. Okay, so talk about the good, right? Let's always, let's, let's compliment sandwich this.
[00:04:47] The best part, obviously, was that the US Brought home a team gold.
[00:04:57] So all of our figure skaters from the US Got to go home with a gold medal. I love it.
[00:05:03] I love it. And then also another peak of the mountain was obviously Alyssa Lou. Like, I'm obsessed with her. I love that we have like an alt princess that's like, in this very, like, you know, princess, princess, kind of ivory that usually figure skating has. And she is just so if you don't know her lore, her backstory, she was basically a child prodigy. Like, I think at like 13, she won like gold at Worlds or something crazy like that. And then, you know, as in most of these type of situations, she didn't have, like, a lot of autonomy. She was told to starve. She wasn't given, like, what she could wear or what song she could pick. And then at 16, she said, Fuck this shit. I'm out of here. I'm retiring from the Sport at age 16. 16, and walked away from it. And then I think it was that she, like, went on, like a ski trip with some of her friends, and she thought to herself, oh, my gosh, like, is this.
[00:06:04] Can I feel this happy and have this much fun with figure skating? And then she ended up going back to the sport and decided to have like a different mentality this time around. I'm picking what I'm wearing. I'm looking how I want to look. I'm dancing to whatever the I want to dance to, okay? And you know what happened? She brought joy. She brought less pressure. And guess what? That got her an Olympic gold medal.
[00:06:34] And that's on ownership of your body. That's on ownership of your creative talents. And I love to see it, especially with a young woman taking the reins. All these older people, you could do whatever you want to do. My diva. And she did it. And the other two ladies that place on the podium shout out to Japan. And I didn't know this, that figure skating is the same second most popular sport in Japan behind baseball. America sport baseball. No, it's Japan sport baseball. Okay. Sh. Otani. Does that ring any bells? Yes. Our Japanese king.
[00:07:12] So I didn't know that. But also, great job to everybody who did the figure skating. The one part about the women's figure skating, that hurt my heart. So basically what happens with your scores, Your score is a combination of the short and the free skate. And that would be how you place or medal.
[00:07:30] And our girl, Amber Glenn, 26 years old, which is considered like an old ass bitch basically in the game, which is crazy because 26 is so young.
[00:07:40] And she.
[00:07:42] In the short, you have to. You have to complete three jumping passes and you cannot do anything less than a triple.
[00:07:50] And in one of her combinations, she did a double.
[00:07:54] And that, that singular mistake, that one mistake knocked her off the podium. Can I tell you, when she came off that ice, she knew. She knew that she would not meddle because of that one mistake. I was sobbing. Honestly, in general. In general, the Olympics make me sob. Okay? Because you think about it, people work their entire lives for this one moment every four years, okay? And some people, they only get that one shot.
[00:08:26] They only get that one shot. And when you make one singular mistake and you've learned your entire life for this moment, and you make one mistake, it all comes down to that one moment. And it makes me so upset. I cry for them. I cry for their parents. I couldn't imagine.
[00:08:45] I couldn't imagine being an Olympians parents, okay? I don't even know these people. And my stomach hurts. My stomach's in knots. If I birthed them and I saw their training and I had to go watch it, I'm puking. You all know I puke. I'd be barfing all over myself. And everybody in the vicinity called the splash zone. All Right. Throwing up, crying, shitting. It's everything. I'm full excretion process. If I was an Olympian's parents. Okay? And then I'm also, like, crying out of, like, joy, because, like, again, they. They work their whole lives for these moments. And when you can do it and you have that perfect Olympics performance.
[00:09:26] So big.
[00:09:28] I'm so big. It's.
[00:09:31] It's truly. It's an indescribable feeling. Okay, now in pairs. So I talked a little bit before about Madison Chalk and Evan Bates. They have, like, a beautiful story. They were. They were partners for a long time, and then, like, six years in, they were partners. And then Evan was like, no, I actually, like, love her.
[00:09:52] And he was like, I might ruin the friendship, but, like, I love you. And she's like, wait, what?
[00:09:59] I don't know. Hold on. Let me think on it. Let me sleep on it. And then she was like, we actually, like, I kind of love you too. And they're married, and they're still dancing together. It's so beautiful. I love it.
[00:10:11] But they place. They got a silver, so they got second place. And it actually was a little controversy because the people who placed first, I believe they were from France. They have a lot of issues, okay? They have, like, different partners and, like, sexual assault stuff. A couple, like, boom, boom, boom stuff. Like, I'm a little scared. And then they come together and they win gold. And a lot of people were like, that's not good, because they got a lot of these allegations out here.
[00:10:40] But, alas, the leader of our country doesn't even have allegations. They have facts against him, and he's still the president of our country. So I don't really know about our metrics of this world, even though wrong is wrong. All right. Across the board.
[00:10:53] And then the biggest upset is Ilya Malinin. And that was so difficult to watch. I was crying for everybody. So 18 out of the 20 male figure skaters who performed that night fell.
[00:11:16] So that leads me to believe there was a problem with the ice, okay? Because everybody, Basically everyone fell. There's a problem with what's happening on the ice. And it came out a little bit later that it was, like, soft ice, which I don't really know. I don't know. I don't know. I wasn't there. I wasn't feeling nice. I don't know the difference between hard ice and soft ice. Okay. But I do feel like there was a lot of pressure that was put on Ilia, and they were like, he's the quad God. The Quad king that he's the only person that could do a quad.
[00:11:47] And he sucked on his performance. And that was so terrible to watch.
[00:11:56] And we need to stop. We need to stop putting so much pressure on these athletes before they even get there. Let them compete, let them perform, let them do what they do, and then we can hype him up after the same thing happened to Lindsey Vaughn.
[00:12:13] My queen, Lindsey Vaughn. That was horrific to watch.
[00:12:19] And a week before the Games, they were. I don't know if she was competing or on a practice thing. She blows her acl. I mean, blows her acl, blows it. She doesn't have an ACL anymore and she decides to still compete. You know what?
[00:12:39] First of all, you're not going to tell an Olympian or an athlete what to do. You're also not going to tell a woman what to do. All right.
[00:12:46] Should she have performed? Probably not the best idea. But she. It was this whole, you know, story. She's 40 years old. Oh, my God, she's a grandma. She's so old to be competing.
[00:13:00] Everybody's crazy. And she retired. She came back to the sport. It was all this pressure.
[00:13:07] And then when she gets out there, it's a 90 second run from the top of the hill down to the bottom. Alpine skiing, 13 seconds in. It looks like her.
[00:13:19] I don't know what it's called, a staff or her rods, whatever. Looks like it clips the flag and she tumbles the down skis just like clusterbug. She was like a pretzel. And they had to airlift her out of there.
[00:13:41] I can't tell you the way I. The way I felt watching that. I was sick.
[00:13:49] I was sick inside. I can't imagine being at the bottom of that hill being her family.
[00:13:55] Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Like I'm getting ptsd. And that's not even my family. Like, that's not even my people.
[00:14:02] It was so terrible to watch. She had to get airlifted out. It took forever to get her off the mountain and imagine being right after that.
[00:14:10] I'm scared.
[00:14:11] I'm so scared.
[00:14:13] Oh, my God. Oh, my God. But anyway, I mean, I'm already hitting like almost my 15 minute mark of this episode. And there's obviously so much to talk about.
[00:14:23] The most important team to me is my Avengers, Terry Gannon, Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir. When I tell you I was eating their commentary up, it was so funny. Would be like, Johnny be like, yeah, that was his best performance of the season. But it's still not going to be good enough compared to Everybody else here, oh, they were clocking the tee and keeping it real.
[00:14:50] I love them. They're my avengers. And Andrea Joyce boots on the ground with. With the athletes down in the locker rooms. We love her, too. I love them. And I always say this around the Olympics. Times that, like, I need to watch figure skating when it's not the Olympics. I need to watch gymnastics when it's not the Olympics. And I never do. But maybe I will start.
[00:15:11] Maybe I'll start. I think it'll be on NBC. So hopefully Peacock will keep streaming it and not music licenses. Taking it off 24 hours after the fact.
[00:15:24] You heard Bennett growling in the background. That's exactly how I feel, too. Grr.
[00:15:31] Well, thanks so much for watching this very special episode of the Sew. Yeah. Podcast showcasing the Olympics. The next Olympics will be in Los Angeles. And this is my, again, my manifestation portal, which is my podcast.
[00:15:45] I need to be there, my dream. I would love to be the Snoop Dogg of the Olympics. Just have me show up, give me 500k, just every day, just to show up and be like, oh, this is a cool sport. I would love to do that. That is my dream job. Okay, so putting that in the manifestation portal, putting in the cauldron that I'm going to be at the LA 2028 Olympics. Thank you so much. Okay. God, hear it, clock it. Thank you. Thank you so much for listening to this episode, wherever you're watching, consuming it. I really appreciate it, you know, it, as always. And we'll be back next week with a brand new episode.
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