Bloomberg Host (2:18)

What changed with this Olympics in terms of a sport that we focus on every four years to, hey, this is for real. What's the catalyst right now out of that wonderful Olympic coverage?

Corey Dropkin (2:31)

I think it's the energy that you see from the sport, from all the Athletes, you know, we love a sport where, you know, the crowd's going wild and cheering big. You know, I think traditionally it used to be known as, you know, a bit of a quiet, you know, more of like a silent, please type of sport where, you know, it's all about etiquette and. Is a sport of etiquette and, you know, instead of the, you know, the respective cheers, you know, on made shots and then be silent for the next opponent to throw, you know, we want to. We want those. Those cheers to vibrate through the stadium. And that's what we saw in Italy, you know, the Italian crowd showing up, our American crowd, you know, every country showing up for their own right. And the energy that the athletes were giving off.

Bloomberg Host (3:08)

Alexis Christopher is with Corey Dropkin. He has a silver medal in studios with us. That. That's a hunk of metal.

Alexis Christopher (3:15)

It's around his neck in case you guys can't. Can't see me. I feel it just for. Never been this close to a. Oh, my gosh, that's heavy.

Ben Walter (3:23)

All right.

Alexis Christopher (3:24)

That's. That's the real deal.

Bloomberg Host (3:25)

And hopefully it'll last because the stories, like, they go on three, four, five years and they fall apart. Yeah.

Alexis Christopher (3:31)

Or they've been falling off the ribbon or something.

Corey Dropkin (3:33)

Silver, by the way, at $86 right now, up 7. We got that piece in there.

Bloomberg Host (3:39)

Alexis, please.

Alexis Christopher (3:40)

He's going to hang on to his silver. So, I mean, undoubtedly, you know, curling's having its moment, but in what ways? Like, are you. Are you seeing and hearing from, like, young people here in the US Are they going like, yeah, I want to do that?

Corey Dropkin (3:52)

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think every four years, it's natural. I mean, the world loves watching curling. You know, we just need to be able to give the world what they want to watch more often. And I would want to see, especially in the US Curling exposed a little bit more. We need it more on an annual basis, and that's part of why Rock League is here and starting in April, you know, But I've heard so many curling communities having, you know, big open houses, new kids, new adults trying to come in and learn how to.

Bloomberg Host (4:16)

Now you're up in Duluth right now.

Corey Dropkin (4:17)

Yeah, you bet.

Bloomberg Host (4:18)

It's still winter. Okay, so you're up in Duluth and you want to do Rock League. Do you have any media into it? Is there a tv? You know, tv.

Alexis Christopher (4:25)

That's what you need to get it to the next level.

Corey Dropkin (4:28)

Yes. Yep.

Bloomberg Host (4:28)

And I know it says Apple tv. I mean, you know, it says dead tv.

Corey Dropkin (4:32)

Yeah, yeah. I know, Yeah, I know they've got a network for sure in Canada. I know they're working on the US it sounds like there was, there was talks about potentially securing something, you know, but hopefully, hopefully we're able to get that and that way that everyone around the U.S. can watch. April 6th to 12th in Toronto is where Rock League's happening. It's, it's the eastern inaugural first season. It's going to be seven days long. There's six franchises and the beautiful thing is that it's, it's, it's mixed gender. So on each franchise there's 10 athletes, five male and five female. And so really you get the best in the world that are, that are playing head, head and head.

Bloomberg Host (5:09)

What do you like in a bar where the games, like a pool table or some of those games. You must be. You just go in and get some idiot to bet you. This is not, this is not a sport. You can do with what beer in one hand. These guys are athletes.

Alexis Christopher (5:23)

It's like a Marty Suprem.

Bloomberg Host (5:25)

I'll tell you what are you in a bar?

Corey Dropkin (5:27)

League night is known to have some beer involved for sure. On an average Tuesday evening, you're definitely gonna see curlers with the beer on the back of the boards. But I love pool. When I grew up and I wanted to be good at curling, my dad told me that if you want to be good at curling, you gotta learn your angles. If you wanna learn your angles, you

Bloomberg Host (5:43)

start playing three cushion billiards or you doin pocket.

Corey Dropkin (5:46)

Absolutely pocket.

Alexis Christopher (5:47)

So see you can the curling skills translate to other things?

Bloomberg Host (5:52)

Size in my ear. Size are curling expert here. I got, I got out of turn here. I'm gonna have to go here in a couple of minutes because of Iran and that. I mean, Corey, it's as simple as that. Were the Canadians cheating?

Corey Dropkin (6:07)

You know they weren't cheating. No, you know, there was, there was, you know, basically touching the ground is technically in fracture where, you know, it's similar to like traveling in basketball.

Bloomberg Host (6:16)

Okay. Were they cheating?

Corey Dropkin (6:18)

They weren't cheating, but they were, they were definitely.

Alexis Christopher (6:21)

Did somebody call them out on it? Is that really what happened?

Corey Dropkin (6:24)

I mean, yeah, the Swedish curler, Oscar Erickson called them out on it. And I'd say, you know, they probably reacted a little bit over the board, which is why this thing went pretty cool.

Alexis Christopher (6:31)

There was cussing going on and curling, which doesn't happen often.

Corey Dropkin (6:34)

Yeah, you don't see it very often. You know, it's also a big stage. You know, we're talking about the Olympics the emotions are high. You know, you had, you know, essentially a legend of the sport who's being called out and you know, he overreacted for sure. He was in a fracture that as you know, traveling in basketball, some people get called on it, some people don't. And he got called on it.

Alexis Christopher (6:54)

Where do you keep the metal when you're not wearing it?

Corey Dropkin (6:56)

Either close by to me or up high on a shelf at home.

Alexis Christopher (7:01)

Not under the pillow, not under the mattress.

Corey Dropkin (7:03)

Yeah.

Bloomberg Host (7:04)

Okay. When you get the Clorox free and clear out on the kitchen floor, you're like demanding you do the scrub into the kitchen floor.

Alexis Christopher (7:12)

You know, if you were my son, this would. I'd be asking you to do it. I really would. Cory.

Bloomberg Host (7:17)

Yeah.

Corey Dropkin (7:17)

You know, I'm very good at cleaning the kitchen floors for sure. Yeah, you can ask my fiance.

Bloomberg Host (7:22)

Well, thank you so much. This has been just a joy is a real entrepreneurial spirit, folks. Rock League, you're going to see it as Corey mentions, out of Toronto here as they develop our interest in curling after our complete addictive fixture. How come the games are so long?

Alexis Christopher (7:40)

Oh, that's a good question.

Corey Dropkin (7:41)

Right now the men's and women's four person games are ten ends and that takes about two and a half hours.

Bloomberg Host (7:44)

Are you going to get a pitch clock?

Corey Dropkin (7:46)

I know they should. I think what we need to see is the game shortened a little bit and you're going to see that in Rock League too where the games will be shortened to the mixed doubles games are about an hour and a half. There you go. My mind is perfect. People love watching mixed doubles.

Bloomberg Host (7:59)

Corey, thank you so much. Out of Wayland, Massachusetts, out of Southborough as well. And of course now up in Duluth, Minnesota. Mr. Dropkin is an Olympic silver medalist. The Dow right now, negative 600. We've got to get back to these markets. And all the new slow changing are literally by the the 15 minutes is how I would put it. Right now I'm going to go to the major Bloomberg feed here which we have in Iran that's actually a little bit stable right now. And Alexis, if I bring it over to Top Live where they're working feverishly.

Alexis Christopher (8:33)

Yes.

Bloomberg Host (8:33)

Out of Dubai, out of London, out of Dublin. Today is. Well right now this is, this is just a general statement from our Matthew Griffin on the stock market as well. And again there's a way to the tape. Negative 630.

Alexis Christopher (8:51)

Yeah. And Iran's new leader coming out with these statements that are moving the market for the first time since the war.

Bloomberg Host (8:57)

Here's what I want. This is Patrick Sykes. He's out of Cambridge and is in Istanbul. We've had him on the show. He's absolutely brilliant. No other way to put it in. Patrick Sykes, making clear that the message itself was defiant. Iran will continue to attack the Gulf and keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. So we'll have to see that. As is. What did you.

Alexis Christopher (9:21)

Maybe you'd want to hold the medal on a.

Bloomberg Host (9:23)

Hold the medal?

Alexis Christopher (9:24)

Yeah. Isn't that heavier than you'd expect?

Bloomberg Host (9:26)

Yeah.

Alexis Christopher (9:27)

Silver medal.

Bloomberg Host (9:27)

I don't think you got that through tsa.

Alexis Christopher (9:29)

Okay. Right now, here. You can have your medal back.

Bloomberg Host (9:33)

Thank you.

Alexis Christopher (9:34)

Your silver medal.

Bloomberg Host (9:35)

Great. Corey Dapkins, silver medalist with us today as he begins Rock League and curling.