Pregaming the Olympics w/ Jeremiah Coughlan & Joe Simons

Summary

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The Nightly – "Pregaming the Olympics" w/ Jeremiah Coughlan & Joe Simons

Date: February 5, 2026
Host: Kristen (Hatch Podcasts)
Guests: Jeremiah Coughlan & Joe Simons (hosts of “Sleepy Time Sports”)

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Overview of Episode Theme

On this cozy, late-night episode of The Nightly, Kristen welcomes sports-comedy duo Jeremiah Coughlan and Joe Simons into the playful “pillow fort” to help listeners unwind by diving into Winter Olympics fever. It’s a lighthearted, pop-culture-slumber-party take on the Games: discussing Olympic obsessions, quirky events, and the uniquely compelling stories and athletes set to capture attention on the world stage. The trio assembles their “snooze pack” dream team of must-watch athletes and events, shares playful banter, and debates what really makes the Olympics such a universal draw—even for those who don't think of themselves as sports fans.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Olympic Excitement and Rituals

• Kristen admits her Olympic obsession, celebrating the communal joy of the Games and the "national outfits" parade.
  • [01:10] Kristen: “My friends and I throw a party just for the opening ceremonies where we clap for everybody entering the arena in their cute national outfits.”
• Joe notes the unique “sports fling” quality of the Olympics, how fans obsessively learn about athletes for two weeks and then promptly forget until the next Games.
  • [01:49] Joe: “This is the best sports fling that we have… we fall in love, learn every detail, and then they’re gone.”
• Jeremiah loves the sudden, widespread enthusiasm for obscure winter sports during the Olympics, enabling “water cooler” conversations about the luge and biathlon.
  • [02:21] Jeremiah: “Suddenly we all have strong feelings about biathlon…”

The Biathlon: Functionality Meets Absurdity

• The biathlon gets special attention for its unique combination of cross-country skiing and marksmanship.
  • [02:56] Kristen: “My understanding: it’s like running a thousand yard dash, threading a needle, and then running six miles and threading a needle.”
• Joe compares it (jokingly) to “The Revenant” but clarifies the real event:
  • [03:26] Joe: “You’re shooting a gun, then performing winter activities—cross country skiing and skeet shooting, basically.”

Snooze Pack: Building the Winter Olympics Dream Team

The group collaborates to build their “snooze pack”—six must-watch events or athletes.

Jeremiah’s Picks:

• Hockey (Men’s & Women’s) [05:32]:
  • Excitement for NHL players returning after 8 years in men’s hockey.
  • Women’s hockey praised for pure competition absent the “drama”—highlighting the rising competition level, especially USA vs Canada.
    • [06:40] Kristen: “In women’s sports, it seems… it’s just about playing, and it’s not about drama in the same way.”
• New Winter Olympic Events [07:32]:
  • "Ski Mountaineering"—described as climbing up, then skiing down the mountain.
  • New formats: doubles luge ("nuts to butts," as Jeremiah jokes [08:56]) and skeleton relays.

Joe’s Picks:

• Nick Baumgartner (Snowboarder, Team USA) [09:29]:
  • 44-year-old snowboarder, oldest on his team, Olympic veteran since before some teammates were born.
    • [09:40] Joe: “He’s been on the U.S. Olympic team longer than two of his teammates have been alive.”
  • Won first gold at age 40; story celebrated for persistence and “outworking everyone.”
• Olympic Figure Skating Broadcasters [11:41]:
  • Shoutout to Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski, and Terry Gannon for their entertaining, knowledgeable commentary.
    • [12:07] Joe: “Fabulous people being fabulous and not apologizing for it… this is what the Olympics is all about.”

Kristen’s Picks:

• Ilia Malinin (“The Quad God,” Figure Skating) [14:35]:
  • Young American skating phenom; first to land a quadruple axel in competition, regularly performs multiple quads in routines.
    • [15:41] Kristen: “You’re spinning around four and a half times in the air, landing on an eighth of an inch wide blade—a knife, basically.”
• Alysa Liu (Figure Skater, Team USA) [15:53]:
  • Retired at 16 to have a “normal” life; attended college, then returned and won 2025 World Championship.
  • Praised for pursuing personal balance and boundaries—“not just an athlete, but a person too.”
    • [16:58] Kristen: “It’s just such a fun story… able to be a world-class athlete, but also have that sense of personal balance.”

The Irresistible Human Drama of the Olympics

• The panel agrees that personal stories and comebacks (like Baumgartner’s and Liu’s) hook casual and hardcore viewers alike.
  • [18:07] Jeremiah: “The human interest portion of the Olympics… is what engages the general public.”
  • Discussion of how athletes now often compete (or return) later in life, e.g. Lindsey Vonn, Hilary Knight.

Should Regular People Compete First?

• Debated whether every event should first be attempted by an “average person” for context.
  • Joe thinks most events are so challenging it’d be dangerous, but volunteers the trio for curling.
    • [20:08] Joe: “The three of us should be a curling team. Is it that big of a disparity? I don’t know.”
  • Kristen and Jeremiah riff on how fun it would be to see a “Steve from Duluth” attempt Olympic events for contrast.
    • [21:03] Jeremiah: “…just a guy, and you put them in the same situation, then you really get an idea of how crazy it is, what these guys are doing.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Olympic Knowledge Dump:
  • [01:49] Joe: “This is the best sports fling that we have. Every couple of years, we fall in love, we learn every detail about them, and then they’re gone.”
• On the Biathlon:
  • [02:56] Kristen: “It’s like running a thousand yard dash, then threading a needle... and the precision that’s involved and so on.”
  • [03:26] Joe: “It’s a lot like the 2015 film The Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio, where he has to fight bears in the woods. No, you’re shooting a gun, and then you’re performing winter activities.”
• The Value of Women’s Hockey:
  • [06:40] Kristen: “When you watch men’s soccer, they just go out there and they kill it. And I kind of feel that way with women’s hockey.”
• Nick Baumgartner’s Longevity:
  • [09:40] Joe: “He’s been on the U.S. Olympic team longer than two of his Olympic teammates have been alive.”
  • [10:13] Joe: “They’re on Wheaties boxes, they’ve opened a car dealership, drafting on their fame at that point. But he’s just getting started.”
• The Broadcasters’ Flair:
  • [12:07] Joe: “Fabulous people being fabulous and not apologizing for it. This is what the Olympics is all about.”
• The Quad God:
  • [15:41] Kristen: “You’re going into it backwards, you’re spinning around four and a half times in the air, landing and going forward on an eighth of an inch wide blade… and he does this seven times.”
• Alysa Liu’s Return:
  • [15:53] Kristen: “She said, I want to do things that teenagers do… and then she announced, you know what? I’ll compete again. And of course, she came back after her retirement and won the 2025 World Championship because that’s how easy it was for her.”
• Seeing 'Regular People' Try Olympic Events:
  • [21:03] Jeremiah: “If, like, before every event they were like, ‘Oh, yeah, and we got Steve Williams from Duluth, and he’s just going to go out there and try snowboarding for the first time…’ I’d watch.”
• Pet Goodnights:
  • [22:46] Joe: “My beloved cat, Big Guy, who never goes to bed when I want him to. Big Guy, if you’re listening, please go to bed and stop torturing me and your mother. Thank you, good night.”
  • [23:13] Jeremiah: “My little babies, Oscar and Annabelle… Oscar’s 14, so he’s sort of in bed all the time… Annabelle… probably like Joe’s big guy, does not really like to go to bed until she decides.”

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:10] Kristen describes her Olympic Opening Ceremonies rituals.
• [02:21] Jeremiah on Olympic fever for obscure sports.
• [02:56] Kristen and Joe explain and joke about the biathlon.
• [05:23] "Snooze Pack" game intro — building their must-watch Olympic lineup.
• [05:32–09:13] Jeremiah’s picks: hockey excitement & new events.
• [09:29–13:14] Joe’s picks: Nick Baumgartner’s career & figure skating broadcasters.
• [14:27–16:58] Kristen’s picks: Ilia Malinin the “Quad God” & Alysa Liu’s comeback.
• [17:44] Reflection on the emotional “hook” of athlete stories.
• [20:08–21:51] Should “average Joes” try each Olympic sport? Group discussion.
• [22:04] Plugs: Joe’s Trail Blazers show, Jeremiah’s stand-up & Triple Bogey Comedy.
• [22:46–23:46] Pet-themed goodnights and pillow fort signoff.

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Episode Tone & Style

Warm, funny, inclusive, and sleep-adjacent, with a laid-back slumber party energy. The hosts lightly riff and joke, but offer genuinely insightful takes and personal enthusiasm for the communal joy, incredible feats, and very human stories that make the Olympics endlessly magical—even for non-sports fans.

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For Olympic Newcomers & Nightly Listeners

Whether you’re a die-hard Olympics watcher or mostly in it for the memes and the spectacle, the trio’s blend of sporting knowledge, pop culture references, and gentle bedtime banter makes the Winter Games feel like the world’s coziest sleepover.

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Transcript

[A]

Hello.

[B]

You're about to drift into an episode of the Nightly a podcast designed to help you unwind and relax. For the full phone free immersive light.

[A]

Experience, visit Hatch Co.

[B]

Enjoy.

[C]

Hey, sleepyheads out there. Hi there, I'm Kristen. Welcome to the Nightly from Hatch, a slumber party for pop culture lovers. Tonight it's just me hosting, but not really because I am joined by two guests here in the pillow fort. So excited to welcome the lovely Joe Simons and Jeremiah Coughlin, hosts of Hatch's Sleepy Time Sports. It's a great way to drift off to sleep and learn about sportball and other sports things having to do with nuts and pucks and whatnot. Welcome to the show, Joe and Jeremiah.

[A]

Happy to be here.

[B]

Absolute pleasure to be here. Thank you.

[C]

I was just joking. As if I don't know much about sports at all. I do know a little bit about sports and I do every two years get insane Olympic fever. I watch the Winter Games, I watch the Summer Games, I stand up and cheer every time there's Olympics. My friends and I throw a party just for the opening ceremonies where we clap for every everybody entering the arena in their cute national outfits. We love all of it. So having you here means so much for this special time in international unity and sportsmanship. That's how I feel about the Olympics. How are you guys feeling about the Olympics? Joe, I'll let you start.

[B]

I love the Olympics. This is a very special time to have a fortnight ish where we get to learn about all of these athletes and and then immediately purge this information from our minds. This is the best sports fling that we have. Every couple of years we fall in love, we learn every detail about them and then they're gone and then they come back four years later. I absolutely love it.

[C]

Oh, yes. And Jeremiah, how are you feeling about this year's Winter Games?

[A]

I'm really excited. Also big fan of the Olympics. It's so cool. Just like Joe said, you the amount of excitement and engagement with sports that you have never watched or heard of, they just come out of nowhere at you and you've got to lock in. You got to know, you got to be able to water cooler, talk about the luge and the skeleton and all.

[C]

These things that have suddenly we all have strong feelings about biathlon, things like that.

[B]

Yes, I could have hit that shot.

[A]

Which is one of my favorites. The biathlon is probably one of the coolest things ever invented.

[C]

I love it because it actually seems a functional sport. I'm going to go out there, I'M going to hunt for my dinner. And my understanding of biathlon is essentially it's like running a thousand yard dash and then threading a needle and then running six miles and threading a needle. It's like that level of speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down, and the precision that's involved and so on. And for those who don't know, by the way, what the biathlon is, Joe, can you explain that to listeners?

[B]

Yes, it's a lot like the 2015 film the Revenant with Leonardo DiCaprio where he has to fight bears in the woods. No, you're shooting a gun and then you're performing winter activities. I believe it's cross country skiing, Jeremiah, is that correct? You combine that with some skeet shooting.

[A]

Yeah, basically it's a.22 caliber rifle and a cross country skiing mashup. But it's a long way. Like, they, they ski very far and they also, the targets are very far away. It's. It's a crazy sport. I love it.

[C]

Yeah, it's really fascinating, but also useful. Like, if I'm going to be trapped on a mountain with any Olympians and rely on them for my survival, biathletes are pretty good people to be stuck with. Right.

[B]

What are you going to do with a curler?

[A]

Exactly.

[B]

No survival skills.

[A]

Yeah. If you're out there with a figure skater, good luck. This guy knows how to ski and shoot. He'll get you down the mountain, I think.

[C]

All right, so we are tiptoeing into a lot of different sports here. Now we're making mentions of figure skaters, we're making mentions of curling. What do you say we just dive into it a little bit harder and play a game we like to call snooze pack around here. So in snooze pack, we work together to assemble our ideal collection of six things around a theme. So tonight I was thinking we can make a snooze pack of the events or athletes at the Winter Olympics that we're most looking forward to watching. So what'll you say each of you guys pick two, and then I'll pick two, and let's not overlap with each other. That way we have a complete snooze pack of six different people or events. How's that sound?

[B]

Game on.

[A]

Yeah, super fun.

[C]

All right. Okay, Jeremiah, let's have you start. What, what two do you want to add to our snooze pack?

[A]

It's pretty easy for me to pick. The number one for me is ice hockey, men's ice hockey. And women's ice hockey are both going to be very competitive and very exciting. We have the NHL players back in the Winter Olympics for the first time in eight years, and just all the excitement around that. And I don't know if you've seen the advertising around it, and just what they're putting out to get people excited about this, you know, like, what they think will be a USA vs Canada grudge match situation.

[B]

So Jon Hamm commercial was the first thing I thought of, where he awkwardly walks into the locker room, and they're all kind of like, why is Don Draper in here trying to inspire us right now?

[A]

Very funny. It is very good. Yeah. And just everything around that, he's like, the Canadians are so nice. And then they just show, like, all these hockey fights from four nations thing that they put on last year, and it's going to be really good. And then women's. With Canada's dominated the women's hockey since the inception of it as an Olympic sport. And USA has two gold medals, though, so. And the competition level at that is really ramped up. So that'll be really fun and exciting. And that's one of those things that might not get as much airtime as other sports, like, outside of the Olympics.

[C]

Yeah. I have to say that, for me, one of the things I love about women's sports is it seems to me that it's just about playing, and it's not about drama in the same way. Like, for example, to go to summer sports, soccer, there's a lot of men who are flopping around and grabbing their faces and needing magic spray. When you watch men's soccer, they just go out there and they kill it. And I kind of feel that way with women's hockey. Too frequently, it's like they're just going out there and they're playing and they're playing hard.

[A]

Yeah. And they have the new professional league with that, and there's a big buzz around it. People are really excited about it. Yeah.

[C]

So for the snooze pack, are you saying men's hockey and women's hockey are your two picks or just hockey, period?

[A]

We're going. Hockey is one pick.

[C]

Okay. What is your second pick?

[A]

I can't waste two picks on hockey. There's just too much other stuff.

[C]

Kristen.

[A]

And I think my number two is sort of going to be a wild card of the new stuff, which is really exciting. Like the ski mountaineering or ski mo.

[C]

Yes. Can you explain that for folks who don't know what it is? I'm excited About Ski Mo also, I.

[A]

Don'T think that's a great name, but bad branding choice for me. But so, yeah, I mean, it's similar kind of like what you were saying about functionality of the biathletes. Right. Where it's like now instead of just skiing down a mountain, you've got to climb up the mountain first.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

I'm trying to wrap my head around it. Like, how long are these events is this. We're just gonna check in. They start on Wednesday and by Friday they're skiing down the mountain. And you know, like Dick Enberg is like, oh, hey, we're gonna check the Finland team, they've almost made it to the top of the mountain. A couple new things too is like there's doubles luge is now, which seems kind of crazy to me. And there's a skeleton relay, which at first I thought was like a doubles. Yeah, it's like mixed. It's mixed gender relay for skeleton now. And it's basically like your two scores combined. They don't like.

[B]

I don't.

[A]

There's no baton or anything, but it's.

[C]

That might be dangerous passing a baton when you're on a skeleton.

[A]

Well, yeah. First when I saw the listing for it, I thought it was two people on this, the sled together. The skeleton, you know, is like the face down.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

You know, face first thing. And I was like, how are we. Logistically, I don't like the idea of this. This seems very scary. But even the two person luge is kind of. I mean, you're nuts to butts is what I would call it.

[C]

But yeah, you're going very, very fast in a tiny little sled.

[A]

Yeah. The speed is crazy.

[C]

Yeah. Okay, so these are your two picks for this news pack. New events and hockey. Joe, let's get to you what two items are in your snooze pack. Again, it can be a person, an event, anything you like.

[B]

My first is going to be a person.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Nick Baumgartner, are you too familiar with this gentleman?

[C]

No.

[B]

He is 44 years old.

[C]

That's pretty old for an Olympian, by the way.

[B]

Very old, in fact. And that's the most notable thing about him. He's a snowboarder. He's been part of the Olympic team for 21 years. Part of the U.S. national team. He's been on the U.S. olympic team longer than two of his U.S. olympic teammates have been alive. He's with two 17 year olds on this team. He won his first gold medal. This guy's been at it forever. He won his first gold medal ever at 40 in the Beijing Olympics.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

And he's back at it for more.

[C]

That's when most Olympians have already been retired for 15 years.

[B]

Absolutely. They're on Wheaties boxes, they've opened a car dealership, drafting on their fame at that point. But he's just getting started. So he's back at it at age 44. He had one goal. He's, he's, he's trying to get more, Kristen. He's, he's gotten a taste of greatness. He wants a little bit more. He is very much about, I'm not the most talented. This is for kids drinking Mountain Dew. Okay. This is not for a 44 year old man who has to stretch for three hours, get in the sauna, go through this whole process. His whole thing is, I'm going to outwork everybody and that's going to be my process and how I'm a part of this. And, you know, speaking of what Jeremiah said, he is part of a really fun, broader contingent of, we'll say, seasoned athletes for the United States. Lindsey Vaughn is 41 years old. Skier Hillary Knight, whom you mentioned, Jeremiah, the star of the US women's hockey team, she's 36, ancient for a hockey player. But Nick Baumgartner, I just think it's so cool that he has achieved the pinnacle of his sport and he's having another run at it. Snowboarder from Michigan. My hero. I'm very excited to cheer for Nick.

[C]

I don't know anything about Nick other than what you've told me, but now I'm gonna have to go all in and learn everything about him because he's only six years away from AARP membership and he's an Olympic snowboarder. Of course I want to find out more about him. All right, who is your second pick or what is your second pick for your snooze pack?

[B]

Okay, so I'm gonna nerd out a little bit on sports broadcasting, but that's my background. It's what I do. And I love Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski on the figure skating coverage. I think they are great. They are this excellent tandem and they've gone through this really interesting life cycle that everyone goes through. No matter what your involvement is in sports and fame, they bust in the scene. Everyone's like, oh, my gosh, they're so great. They're around for the while. Everyone's, yeah, they're at the top of the game now. They're in this weird little. They've been around for a long time. So people are trying to poke holes in what they do, try to take them down a peg or two. Not on my watch, Kristen. I think they are fantastic. I love them on every red carpet. I love their matching outfits. This is what the Olympics is all about. Fabulous people being fabulous and not apologizing for it. And if I may, their partner is someone who is a stalwart of sports broadcasting. His name is Terry Gannon. You'll see him do everything from golf to NBA basketball. He himself is a great athlete. He was a member of the 1983 North Carolina State men's NCAA National Championship team. One of the most famous upsets in the history of college basketball. He was a shooting guard on that team. So you've got the triumvirate of Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski, who are doing their own thing as a duo. Then you got this cool Terry Gannon on the side. Those three sports broadcasters, I gotta bring em into this newspack.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Okay. I don't know Terry Gannon, but I'm very familiar with Johnny and Tara. They are fabulous. They always bring the showmanship. They will geek out hard, but they are so knowledgeable about skating. Not just about technique and about various aspects of the sport, but also the history. And they're just fun. You can tell they love skating. They love talking about skating. And so I love that you have these broadcasters as part of the snooze pack.

[A]

I just, I want to throw in Johnny Weir. Probably the best Instagram follow. Just, just going to throw that out there. A social media follow on Johnny Weir is will change your life.

[C]

Is it skating? Is it fashion? Is it just Johnny being Johnny?

[A]

It's Johnny being Johnny. So every time, every time something pops up, it just brightens your day.

[B]

It's the best dude lives life.

[C]

Also just a shout out to the season of the Traitors. Johnny and Tara are on the Traitors. If you're into reality show competition, they're on that stabbing backs, taking names, doing the whole thing. So that's pretty fun too.

[B]

Good shout out.

[C]

All right. Since we're talking about figure skaters, I have to say that my picks for this news pack are both figure skaters.

[A]

Oh wow.

[C]

Number one pick, Elia Malinin, AKA the quad God. He was the first skater to in competition, in international competition, complete a quadruple axel. That's four and a half rotations. You're going into it backwards, you're spinning around four and a half times in the air, landing and going forward on an eighth of an inch wide blade, essentially you're landing on a knife. Okay. And he does this seven times in all of his routines. He does it over and over and over again. It just doesn't even seem human. Like, when I think about watching the Olympics when I was growing up, it's like, yay, someone did a double axel. And everyone claps. And now it's like Ilya doing a triple, followed by a triple lutz, followed by a triple toe loop. And it's just triple, triple, triple, back to back. And now he's gonna do like a quad. A quad, a quad, a quad. Followed by more triples, followed by more quads. He's just amazing. He's so good. It doesn't even seem human. It's like superhero level of stuff that he does on the ice. But it's also graceful and beautiful. So that's Ilya Malinin. He's Team usa.

[A]

So the quad. God, I thought you were just talking about his legs. I was like, for all the jumping.

[B]

But he squats 600 pounds to get those quads.

[C]

Does look very strong too.

[A]

You'd have to be.

[C]

He could squash a grape with those quads. Yeah, he could do it, but he's just unbelievable. He's so good. And then the other figure skater I'm really cheering for is Alyssa Liu. She was at the top of her game. She's Team USA. She was the greatest in the US and then at 16, out of nowhere, she retired. And she said, I want to do things that teenagers do. I want to do things like get a driver's license, I want to go to a party, I want to go on a vacation. She'd never been on a vacation before because she'd always been training her whole life. I want to try college. So she went to college for freshman and part of sophomore year. And then she announced, you know what? I'll compete again. And of course, she came back after her retirement and she won the 2025 World Championship because that's how easy it was for her. But it's just such a fun story. Somebody who is able to be a world class athlete, but also to have that sense of personal balance and boundaries of, I'm gonna be a person too. I'm not just gonna be an athlete. And it just makes me want to cheer for her.

[B]

Reminds me of Claire Danes. She stars in My so Called Life. She's like, hey, I'm gonna go to Harvard. I wanna come back. I still have my fastball. Don't worry about it. I'm gonna be in Homeland. I'm gonna be in all these shows. I love when someone can take a break and has that good sense of balance in their life. Very exciting.

[C]

Absolutely. Especially because so many athletes in life, they never got to have any of those things. They never got to learn how to just do things like go to a party or go to a school dance or whatnot. And they really suffer for it later in life, lacking in basic social skills or life experience because all they did was train for 18 hours a day. So it's nice when someone can be more well rounded. So those are the folks I'm really cheering for. But how do we feel about this? Do we feel good about this newspath?

[B]

I feel great about it. I think we have the two tent pole events, hockey and figure skating. I think those are the things that put butts in the seats. And then we have, hey, here's all this sideshow of people climbing up a mountain and rappelling down it and all that kind of stuff. So we have the meat and potatoes and then maybe like a fun side dish, like some Mac and cheese on there as well.

[C]

And the soon to be AARP member who is snowboarding.

[A]

Well, and I think that's when we talk about how we get invested in these things, at least. When I think of growing up, it's like the human interest portion of the Olympics, like these, these characters and these people that you've never heard of. And then they have something like this Baumgartner. Right. Like the. The age thing there and then the comeback of the figure skating and, you know, these things. And what I'm seeing too is people are competing later in life compared to what we were very much used to. I mean, I feel like, you know, like Nancy Kerrigan and Tahni Harding were like teenagers almost when they were in the Olympics. Right. And now we're seeing these.

[C]

Wasn't Tara Lipinski only 14 when she won her gold? She was a little kid. She was like middle school age.

[A]

Yeah. And now we see people taking breaks and living lives and doing the things that normal people do and then also being able to come back and compete. And that's like that human interest portion of it, I think, is what engages the general public into these Olympics because the sports are the sports, but the broadcast is on TV for 24 hours a day for something like three weeks. So there's we got to talk about something besides just balls and strikes kind of stuff. So it's really cool to see, like, the look behind these people's lives and what they go through to be these, like, Topics international athletes. Really cool.

[C]

Yeah, it really is cool. And just to see the world come together in something that's really happy, it's.

[B]

Very important to have that.

[C]

All right, one last question I want to ask before we wrap things up here. Do you think that a regular human, let's say Jeremiah, you or Joe or me, should have to do each event first so the general public can see how hard it is to do before the athletes go out? This is something that I've heard argued for ever since I was a little kid. People would say, like, we need just one person out there trying to ski so you can see how hard it is. Or speed skating or trying to do even like a single axle. We need somebody doing that so we can see how hard it is. How do you guys feel about that idea?

[B]

I think generally speaking, no, because things like ski jumping and the downhill slalom and the climbing up a mountain and shooting in cross country skiing, I think generally these feel like very challenging feats that only the top 001% can do. Now, I feel like I've disparaged curling a lot in this conversation. I'm gonna do it again. The three of us should be a curling team and we should take on the best team in the world. Because again, no offense to any curlers out there. Is it that big of a disparity? I don't know. I don't know.

[C]

I don't know. I do know that a lot of the curlers have full time office jobs during the day. Sadly, they don't get a lot of funding. They don't get a lot of love. So they are in a sport that you don't have to train 18 hours a day in. They literally can work a full time office job and then do this on the evenings and weekends. So maybe we could do it.

[A]

Yeah. I think of all the ones that are offered, that's probably our best chance. But I like the idea of sending just like the average Joe. Like, I had this idea, if you've ever seen, like, Cirque du Soleil, and it's sort of like presented in this way where it just feels very normal to see what's happening. And then what if you just put like a rant, like a Cirque, just. Okay, like just a guy, and you just put them in the same situation and then you. Then you really get an idea of, like, how crazy this is, the things you're watching, you know? And that would be like a pretty interesting broadcast for the Olympics if, like, before every event they were like, oh, yeah, and we got Steve Williams from Duluth and he's just gonna, he's just gonna go out there and try snowboarding for the first time. We're just gonna throw him down the mountain snowboard and show everybody just how difficult it is what these guys are doing out there.

[C]

I'd watch, I would totally watch that too. Joe, Jeremiah, before we say goodbye and goodnight to each other, is there anything our listeners should be checking out that you two have been working on?

[B]

Yes, if you're a fan of the Portland Trailblazers NBA basketball team. I host their post game show. It's called the Rip City Wrap up, available on YouTube.

[A]

And Jeremiah, just the regular old stand up comedy grind. I've been traveling a lot doing that and doing I got a new little side thing called triple bogey comedy where we're doing comedy for golf people which has been really fun so far. And you can find all that information on jeremiacoughlin.com good luck spelling it.

[C]

And we love to ask all of our guests to give a special good night before we bid them adieu. So Joe, do you want to bid goodnight to somebody before we call it a night?

[B]

Yeah, only, only one somebody comes to mind. I think he's probably puking right now as I'm recording this. My beloved cat, Big Guy, who never goes to bed when I want him to. Big Guy, if you're listening, please go to bed and stop torturing me and your mother. Thank you, good night.

[A]

And Jeremiah, well now I feel stupid because I'm going to say goodnight to my pets, my little babies.

[C]

That's not stupid. We love pets here in the pillow fort. We love pets.

[A]

My little babies, Oscar and Annabelle, which Oscar's. He's 14 so he's sort of in bed all the time.

[C]

Is he a cat or a dog?

[A]

He's a dog. He's a little wiener dog. And then Annabelle is our little corgi who's three who probably like Joe's big guy does not really like to go to bed until she decides it's time to go to bed. So she's a independent spirit. Little little monster Corgi. Love her.

[C]

Well, good night to your furry friends and everybody else out there. Good night as well. Good night, Joe. Good night, Jeremiah. Thank you so much again for joining us tonight.

[B]

Good night, Kristen.

[A]

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