In The Booth with Shawn Booth
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In The Booth with Shawn Booth
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Join Locks, Shawn, and AuntieCat as they discuss their favorite Olympic moments and athletes. Shawn stirs the pot with a hot take about Simone Biles, leading to a "spirited" debate with SamCat. Plus, they dish on the absolute worst social media trends. Tune in for all the fun!
Olympics Update
Speaker 1We are back in the booth . I'm Sean Booth , and thank you guys for tuning in . Wherever you're listening from , maybe you are in Winchester , missouri , springfield , massachusetts , or maybe you are in East Lansing , michigan . That's the home of the Michigan State . What's her name ? Sam Cat .
Speaker 2Spartans , spartans .
Speaker 1Yeah , there you go . Good job , we are back and we've got a jam-packed house to my left , my direct left . You probably can't see him . Maybe you can see his feet right now , but he is eating . We got Lox Booth in the building .
Speaker 2Loxy B .
Speaker 1And to his left , we got auntie cat in the building and we got our man , easton , behind the ones and twos and we're back in nashville , tennessee , experiencing a heat wave . My goodness , it's gonna be , uh , a spicy hot podcast here . I think we turn the AC off when we do these , correct , easton , no AC , yeah for the sound . And so at my gym we were recording stuff the last couple days and I forgot to turn the AC back on and so people can't even they are like slipping on the rubber because it's so wet , and it's pretty hilarious . It's like people are coming out out of locker rooms after they shower and it looks like they didn't use a towel because they're just drenching wet through all their clothes .
Speaker 2Yeah , I used to practice with no AC in the summer and I have absolutely no idea how I survived that . I'm pretty sure that's illegal now , but it was the nineties , so it was a weird time , but I'm a big AC girl these days . I'm ready for fall . I'm ready for fall . I know that it's August 1st but , baby , I'm ready for fall . I need a crisp , 62 degree , sunny , windy . Yeah , like I need it . I need the NFL music playing in the back and just the smell of fall . I'm ready .
Speaker 1I'm ready too .
Speaker 2I don't want to wish time away , but Officially ready Whenever ?
Speaker 1Yeah . Officially ready whatever ? Yeah , but the thing is is that you know we're going to be sweating until october around here , oh , and then it's still going to be fall , and then it'll be really nice , like the crispy 62 and then one random thursday it'll be like 94 again , correct , but we're uh , looking forward to that .
Speaker 1I just went on a run and I was actually thinking the same thing , because it's hard to control your heart rate when you're training and when you're running and practicing different zones and aerobic and anaerobic and you want to try and maintain a zone to a blue zone , sam cat , and you're going all the way up to the orange and the red , but your orange is your threshold , but you don't want to pass that because you want to work with that lactic acid yeah yeah , so I'm ready for the fall for running purposes same , definitely running purposes , only I'm a big runner um olympics .
Speaker 1I haven't watched a single second on my tv of the olympics . I've seen some clips , I've seen some highlights , but I haven't watched at all . And I saw one of the funniest videos I think I've ever seen of uh steven pommel horse guy oh , the pommel horse guy , the rep , the representative of all nerds across the country like clark kent style love , love it .
Speaker 2I mean good for him . I love the memes , first of all . I say this I feel like every podcast , but the internet remains undefeated . There are so many creative people out there that are quicker and funnier than you and I will ever be , and I love that for them because I enjoy it . But the memes for steven have been off the charts .
Speaker 1I sent you that video right , yeah , yeah , those girls in the background .
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , and it's not like I don't know . Listen , no one ever cares about gymnastics . The Olympics is pretty much the only time that , collectively , as a whole , people are curious and really into it and watching and trying to learn about the sport , so this is like my favorite time of year . I am the first to admit that I don't know nearly as much about men's gymnastics as I do women's , but I mean , how cool is it to be ? Steven won the first medal for the us men's team since 2008 . On his instagram story was a screenshota picture of him solving a rubik's cube in under 10 seconds yeah so you know , out here people are , they're doing their endorsements , they're talking about their sport , they're all this .
Speaker 2This kid's talking about a rubik's cube and I love that incredible .
Speaker 1I love it , and so his specialty . Like that's the only thing he does right . And the men only won the gold medal because of his performance . That is correct , so they had him like sitting on the sidelines . They just had like a clock , a countdown to when he was going right I do have to say that the broadcast definitely leaned into his career .
Speaker 2So it is very rare to make a team as a specialist because obviously there's so many gymnasts in the world and there's not a lot of opportunity to make an Olympic team . And he is just so , so , so good at pommel horse , and I have to preface this with that . Pommel horse is notoriously like make or break for people's careers . You can be a successful male gymnast , but if you don't have pommel horse it has mentally and physically broken many of men . So this kid obviously very much excels . It is so much so that he was chosen as a specialist , which is just like unheard of to come and only compete the palmer horse for his team , like you said , it was really coming down to the wire . They had not won a medal in , you know , since 2008 . So no pressure , steven um . But the reason you're here is for this exact moment . The kid sat there with his eyes closed , trying to stay in the zone , eventually woke up , took his glasses off , came up , dominated and they walked away with the bronze medal .
Speaker 1And so , oh , bronze , they didn't get gold .
Speaker 2No no , no , bronze , bronze . So it was the first time they had medaled since 2008 , which is great , but yeah , I mean a bronze . A medal is a medal in my eyes . I'm not there , but right so it was the first time , but it was so close that they were not going to be on the podium unless he hit exactly exactly what he did , and the pommel horse is so hard yeah , explain the pommel horse .
Speaker 1It's like the big bean that looks kind of like a horse .
Speaker 2You're riding a horse without sure , sure I mean it's like I have no idea what the dimensions are . Like I said , I don't know much about men's gymnastics , but it's got like the two .
Speaker 1They don't do that in women's hell .
Speaker 2No , they just do the beam here's the thing men's gymnastics and women's gymnastics are completely different sports , like they just really are , it's not . It would be like comparing basketball to baseball . I know that that sounds insane , yeah , but locks agrees with me . So obviously I'm correct . Um , but it's . You know , we share two events with the men , but even those two events are just drastically different . I'd say the closest is vault , because it's obviously the same skill , but like , we also share floor , floor I was gonna say it's pretty similar no , I mean yes and no .
Speaker 2Yeah , you're tumbling , but like men don't have music , women do . Men are doing back-to-back skills , a lot of strength based wait , why don't men have music for the floor ? Because who ? Whoever invented the sport , decided that that was not a qualification . They've never had music . The gymnasts that are women are more like artistic , so it's more dance , leaps , turns . Dancing to music a lot more grace . Men carry the strength in their upper body , women carry it in their lower body and there's more focus on flexibility and artistry for women .
Speaker 1Gotcha .
Speaker 2And there's more focus on like stillness , strength and just masculinity in the men's Right . So they're very , very different sports . We just have a little bit in common .
Speaker 1Okay With the men ? Is it always because I know the women ?
Speaker 2isn't it ? Russia is always like the big team , and US I mean . If you read the history books , yes , okay .
Speaker 1What about the men ? You don't know much .
Speaker 2I don't know much about the men . I do have to say . I mean , I know that China and Japan have been very dominant for them in the past couple of years , and Japan actually , I think , won the all-around . I think China was second place and then United States was third .
Speaker 1So okay , so shout out to Steven that dude's going to be getting endorsement deals right now , I'd imagine .
Speaker 2I really hope so , because I just love someone who is unapologetically themselves . I love that he obviously is fantastic at gymnastics and he didn't crack under the pressure and now he's , you know , a country mascot that we have . Now Everybody knows , the Clark Kent guy , the pommel horse guy .
Speaker 1He's probably back in the science lab right now as we speak . He's done with the Olympics and he's back to work and whatever he does , well , he still has event finals .
Speaker 2He's not done .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2Yeah , he's still got the pommel horse to compete later .
Speaker 1Singles .
Speaker 2Yeah . So basically how gymnastics works this is both men and women is that there's a team competition , there's an all-around competition , and then individually you can qualify for each event as well . So the week continues Like today is the women's all-around competition , but then after we'll still have vault , bars , beam and floor individual events as well .
Speaker 1Okay , all right . So big Steven guys here . He's also got a girlfriend of eight or 10 years , I believe he was talking about . Good for him . Yeah , yeah , gotta love it . There's always a couple of people that emerge from the Olympics and become national heroes . Steven is one , and I'd say the second one is the cap catcher .
Speaker 2I don't know who that is .
Speaker 1You don't know who the cap catcher is .
Speaker 2No , I thought you were going to say the women's rugby .
Speaker 1That girl too correct . Yeah , yeah , yeah , she yep , all right .
Speaker 2Iona , I'm going to butcher it . She literally just put out a video of how to say her name because everybody was butchering it , and here I am doing it again to her .
Speaker 1When she became popular because of TikTok , because that one video , when she's talking about a guy , talked to me and he told me to keep moving .
Speaker 2Yes , Also , she's hysterical on the internet , but also she's great at her craft . The women's rugby team also won gold , and she was an enormous part of that .
Speaker 1I saw one play . I was like holy shit , this girl jumped as high as she could , was falling back like Odell Beckham style caught the ball . The other girl hangs on to her ankles and pulls her over her shoulder . I mean it was crazy . She's definitely one girl that's blown up . I keep seeing her . But the cap catcher .
Speaker 2Yeah , I don't know who this is .
Speaker 1This guy literally sits on the sidelines during all the swim races and if anybody loses their cap in the water , he comes out and he like takes his clothes off and he's wearing like a rainbow Speedo and he's like this out of shape , looks like 40 , 50 year old guy and his job is to jump in the water and to retrieve the cap . And then he comes out . So you got , all the people in the stands are like cheering him on and he just dives in with his little speedo , grabs a cap at the bottom of the pool and gets out and everybody goes crazy every time he goes in .
Speaker 2Oh , my God . Okay , I'm going to have to look out . I do have to admit that I haven't watched much swimming . I've watched it in the primetime coverage , but not necessarily live . So I'm going to be on the lookout for that tonight when I watch .
Speaker 1Yeah , and he won't tell his name because he doesn't want to take away the attention from the swimmers .
Speaker 2I mean , I get that , because I also just feel like but also , I'm like dude , you're wearing a rainbow speedo and you don't want to take the attention away from the swimmers like that at events . It's just now . You know he's at the Olympics . He's got a lot more eyes on him .
Speaker 1Yeah , I don't know , I don't know , but I haven't seen any of it .
Speaker 2I saw the women gymnastics they got gold .
Speaker 1They did get gold . Yeah , good for them .
Speaker 2It was . It's so good . I mean , listen , I could talk about gymnastics every day , all day , for the rest of my life . I feel like I love the sport . I love that everybody's paying attention to it . I love obviously winning . Gold is my favorite , but that win for the US women's team I feel like has so many layers that even the media hasn't covered that it's just a really good thing for the girls , for the sport , for our country .
Speaker 2If you've paid attention to gymnastics over the last five to ten years . Obviously there's been horrendous scandal that has surrounded the sports and the girls have referred to it as the redemption tour and they've listed a bunch of things in the media , like obviously Simone had a horrendous mental block in the Tokyo Olympics , sunni has been battling a kidney disease , Like there's just been a lot of things they've talked about , but what they haven't talked about , I think , is a lot of like the unspoken that this win did for the sport of gymnastics and the fact that it has proven that in a healthy , safe environment you can also fucking dominate yeah and it's something that everybody needed to see here in witness .
Speaker 2I think that there's so much more importance that will , after the Olympics , become more apparent to the public for those of us that never once had an opportunity to compete in the Olympics I'm not putting myself in the same category as them but for those of us that dedicated our lives to this sport , for then it to get very much blown up in the public eye and now to kind of have it almost healed over feels really good .
Speaker 1Yeah , cause I mean , it's a good point . I didn't even think about all of the horrendous things that they went through . Like I completely forgot about it actually , and it's like , oh yeah , the U S one again .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1And it's like they overcame that and people thought that the U S Olympics was going to go down basically forever .
Olympic Drama and Triumph
Speaker 1Right After that scandal and after everything like how can you come back from that ? Are you going to be able to compete at a healthy level ? And they overcame the demons . They completely had to clean house from everybody on the US Olympics business side of things and it's not just the Olympics USAG all the way down to junior Olympics .
Speaker 2So I guess that's what I mean is . The importance of it is that they cleaned house in obvious . It was an appropriate action , it was the only action that could be done . And to come out on top on the other side of it and the leader of it is simone . Simone has been on both sides of it . She is the only one that was present at the olympic games in 2016 before everything imploded and has now built herself back up to be in the 2024 Olympics by the way , the oldest gymnast , at 27 years old , to do it , and she's the leader of it . She's the face of it . She's obviously faced immense pressure and I don't know , it's just I feel so good about the future of gymnastics because of where we're at right now , and it's just it feel so good about the future of gymnastics because of where we're at right now and it's just , it's exciting to see and it's I don't know . It makes me emotional , it makes me feel all the feels .
Speaker 1Yeah , I sent you a message . I said what did I say ? Hey , is Simone Biles a little dramatic , or what Was that what I said ?
Speaker 2Something like that . Yeah , and then you didn't respond .
Speaker 1So said something like that yeah , yeah . And then you didn't respond . So I'm still waiting for that . I'd love for you to state your case . I'm listening . First of all , big big simone guy . I think she's obviously the best sport has ever had . I think her and sean johnson top two . Big sean johnson guy right here um , I just feel like every time I I read or see a headline with Simone , it's always something dramatic , like always , like you know , going off on somebody . Her Instagram caption .
Speaker 2Okay , that's one , all right , any others ?
Speaker 1Well , let's talk about that one . I think , uh , obviously I am a guy who loves to shit talk . I am always a guy who likes a good chirp . To give you a little background Um , I had to do research after I saw the instagram post . Right that you did research . Thank you for that . Yeah , I had . I had to do some research . So explain , there's a girl who was and I watched another video um , who was on the gymnastics team ? Michaela , not michaela marooney no all right , we all like Michaela Maroney she's awesome .
Speaker 1Yes , maroney , yeah um , this Michaela girl , I guess , was a alternate for Simone and then became on the team because Simone had , uh , dropped out , right that is correct okay okay , and she also got a silver medal give you a little background on this Michaela girl .
Speaker 2Michaela Skinner was , in all , an alternate in previous Olympics , so she was Simone's teammate , okay , uh , I think it's important to mention that Michaela was also part of the USA G program when things weren't so great . So you know she's been at the hands of all of the bad things that you know about gymnastics , but also some of all of the good ones as well . After the olympic trials of this year , she went on youtube and decided to . You know , she didn't really say great things about the girls that were that made the team . She even went as far as to say I wish I would have made a comeback , because I feel like I could have , like , helped the united states , which I don't think not .
Speaker 1Don't think is not a bad thing .
Speaker 2However , the way in which she said it was super condescending , because she's like these girls fell two times and still made the team Again . Not a bad thing to say it's more so the way she was saying it , and I think a lot of the disappointment came from the fact that she like they should be on the same team .
Speaker 1Well now , when she went on YouTube , did she just like have a YouTube channel ? Yeah , she has a big following she's an Olympic gymnast .
Speaker 2She talks about the sport . She's an athlete .
Speaker 1So she gave her side saying that she could be on this year's team .
Speaker 2Essentially , but she went as far as to say there's no depth of difficulty , they're lazy In reality , the there's no depth of difficulty , they're lazy .
Speaker 1In reality , the girls just don't work hard anymore , right ? Okay , so I heard that . Yep , she said everybody but simone , correct , so she wasn't talking crap about simone , she never did , right I mean but I understand . So she said they don't work hard , which is a crazy assumption to make about a gymnast .
Speaker 2Obviously they're working hard well , and especially like she's , she should be on their team . I don't mean physically the actual team , I'm just saying that , like she represents the sport , she represents Olympic gymnastics . Like you should be supporting .
Speaker 1Kind of came across as a jealous I'm not there anymore Like came off bad .
Speaker 2And again , I don't think necessarily everything she said was bad , but the way in which she said it .
Speaker 1OK , it was so pretty bad , but not terrible .
Speaker 2Not terrible okay so then flash forward , simone was there anything between like ?
Speaker 1so did these girls .
Speaker 2Um , there were some tweets that went out .
Speaker 1Yeah , simone said some people shouldn't have access yes , yes , okay , but is that bad ?
Speaker 2is that bad , though , because Michaela could say her opinion , but Simone can't no , no , I'm not , I'm saying , this is what I'm saying . You can all say your okay , okay , yeah , yeah so , but I think it was just like a tweet and then it was done okay because , guess what , someone had bigger fish to fry . She has to get ready for the Olympics , exactly which she does bigger fish to fry .
Speaker 1Keep that in mind they .
Speaker 2You know what I'm saying ?
Speaker 1no , that's what I'm saying I like that you said that because I'm going to use that same phrase in like 30 seconds .
Speaker 2So then Simone gets her life together . They qualify for the team qualifications . They win gold . Yeah , they win gold .
Speaker 1And what's the first thing that Simone does ? Oh , she posted a picture .
Speaker 2Yes , and it's a clap back Sean because she let her actions speak , don't ?
Speaker 1she got bigger fish to fry , simone she fucking fried them , sean .
Speaker 2She won the goddamn gold . What do you mean ? She has bigger fish to fry , exactly then bigger things you're giving this girl attention . She already did it and it was the period at the end of the statement . Do not cut me off the gold medal speaks for itself .
Speaker 1Exactly , I feel like you just gave this girl attention she shouldn't deserve .
Speaker 2Oh , I absolutely couldn't agree less what she doesn't .
Speaker 1It has nothing to do with attention to her .
Speaker 2It has nothing to do with attention .
Speaker 1You gave her attention . I was looking her up , everybody else was Good . I'm glad you did , trying to figure out what the deal with this girl is , because you want to know something Good . Simone is the greatest of all time Right and she can do whatever she wants . I'm like .
Speaker 1I did not say she can do whatever she wants but I feel like I'm like that seemed kind of a little cringy to me . I'm afraid to say that , cause I think Simone might come after me if I say that Okay , cause I feel like LOL , that she would give you the time of I was just about to say on social media . What do you mean ?
Speaker 2Who is everybody ?
Speaker 1People talk about her husband and she goes off . I feel like there's always a little drama around Simone , that's all I ask .
Speaker 2Can I ask you a real question ? I think she's a fantastic athlete . Can I ask you a real question ? Yeah , seriously , and I don't know that you can even answer this unbiasedly , and I'm not trying to be able to see you next Tuesday Would you feel this way if it was Michael Phelps ? Would you feel this way if it was a male athlete ?
Speaker 1Be honest , yeah , the very first . I'm not saying don't clap back at her at all , like love that , but I'm saying the first thing you post on Instagram it's like , oh , you really don't like this girl because you don't gotta say anything to her at this point .
Speaker 2I hear you .
Speaker 1Right , like clap back maybe a day or two later . I'm just saying the timing maybe is wrong . I don't mind her doing what she did , but I'm saying the very first post . Obviously it worked . It landed . Everybody loved it . I mean , that post has millions of comments and likes . Like it landed . The girl shut down her youtube , yeah , and I'm like , oh , I think that girl should have been like taking advantage of that and be like shit , all right , congrats girls . That's my bad , like . I think she should have owned up to it and use that to continue on with her discussion about the olympics instead of shying away like it looks bad that you just like shut your page down and you like went and hid in the closet . I feel like Michaela should have just been like shit , all right , I was wrong . Yeah , hand up , there is depth . You girls do work hard . Congrats , love you guys . Team USA .
Speaker 2I agree with you .
Speaker 1But I was like oh , I don't know if you need to do that right away , but guess what .
Speaker 2I'm not the one who won a gold medal , so I can't say anything . That's just my opinion
Debate Over Simone Biles' Instagram Caption
Speaker 2. Listen , I don't think Simone can do anything she wants , but I do think that she very subtly and very I mean , yeah , was it petty , of course , but all she did was make an Instagram caption . She did not tag her .
Speaker 1She did not refer to the situation , but who cares ?
Speaker 2She's not allowed to make her Instagram caption .
Speaker 1I mean it's great if she was using that for emotion , I mean for motivation . Damn , like you are really bothered by that , simone .
Speaker 2Would you not be bothered by that ?
Speaker 1It's great . I'm just saying , like every athlete goes to something for motivation , sure , and that was very high on her list . Like she had that Instagram caption planned for months probably .
Speaker 2Here's the thing that I I'm speaking for Simone on her behalf . Do I know this for a fact ? Obviously not , but I think that after the Tokyo Olympics , simone had like a huge mental block where then she felt like the world , the United States , everybody hated her . If you haven't watched the documentary on Netflix , I like the world , the united states , everybody hated her .
Speaker 1if you haven't watched the documentary on netflix , I highly started watching it yeah , so imagine feeling like the entire world hates you because you quote , unquote , quit , quit . Excuse me , this is a pg podcast . We got locks right here quit .
Speaker 2I was trying to merge words quit yeah , sorry , locks quit , quote , unquote , even though it was a mental block . Yeah , so the word block and quit is what I was trying to say together was okay okay , okay , okay , okay , okay .
Speaker 1Let me finish the sentence .
Speaker 2Let me finish the sentence . So she's in the dark place and she only has a handful of people that know her personally , know her as a gymnast , know her as a friend , and michaela was one of them . And then they come out on the other side of all this bullshit covid , the mental block , the everything , the scandal with the doctors , yeah , and they are going to put this team together like , finally , as a sport , we're healing , and then someone from your own side , kayla didn't say anything bad about simone though it doesn't matter , simone is the captain in the goat of this sport it doesn't matter if she personally pointed out simone .
Speaker 2Simone takes that personally because she represents why she's a great captain .
Speaker 1Heck , yeah , I would take that personally too for my team . But obviously , but don't , but , don't know . I'm saying that you can't be like everybody was against her . All this was like , well , that's what you get when you're the best in the world and when you're getting millions of dollars and getting all these sponsorship deals and you're going to have the rest of your life set up . There's going to be things like some pressure and criticism the entire time . Look at Michael Jordan , look at LeBron James the best athletes in the world . I'm not you're trying to say this is a girl or guy thing , like michael phelps , I don't think michael phelps would do that .
Speaker 2I was just asking if you think that you would think michael phelps was dramatic if he just called out his haters , like when he calls out ryan lochte who talks shit about him .
Speaker 1That's not dramatic no , uh , there's a video going around of phelps . Did you see it when ?
Speaker 2yes , I know exactly what you're talking about .
Speaker 1The australian was talking about the cowbell and everything like that . He said I would watch this every day before I got in the pool that pumped me up so much .
Speaker 2Like you like see him , so say that michael phelps got out of the water won a gold medal when it go to his instagram and put up , but do you know that for a fact like yes , I do comparing elephants to apples right now you're the one who asked the comparison but I I'm asking you if you think that you would have the same mindset looking at someone like Michael Phelps versus looking at someone like Simone Biles . I was asking if you think you'd have the same reaction . You said yes , that's all I was wondering .
Speaker 1Yeah . I don't believe you , but I hear you , no , no , you don't think I'd be like dude , of course .
Speaker 2I think maybe eventually you would , but Of course .
Speaker 1I think maybe eventually you would , but I think that you would be quicker to jump on .
Speaker 2Simone , you started this with saying that you haven't watched an ounce of Olympics . So you haven't watched any of the coverage , you don't know the backstory , you don't know the layers that went behind this .
Speaker 1I'm just saying you don't know her personally . I see a lot of drama surrounding Simone and I just ask is Simone a little dramatic ? Is she a little , would you say , is she a diva ?
Speaker 2I don't know her personally .
Speaker 1But from the outside looking in . That's all I want to know . That's why I asked you . You're a gymnast , I'm not watching , so I want to know why all the headlines are always dealing with Simone . That was it .
Speaker 2Well , they're dealing with Simone , because she's the greatest of all time .
Speaker 1Exactly .
Speaker 2And , yeah , I think that it's not always going to be good news when you're the best in your sport . I think it comes with the territory , but I also think there's nothing wrong with standing up for yourself . Simone didn't personally attack this girl . Now do I think that the fallout now that because there's a bunch of internet bullies like yes , Simone , what you say carries so much more weight than anything I will ever say in my entire lifetime , is a billion ?
Speaker 2Exactly , I'm not disagreeing with you in that , but what I'm saying is that she is allowed to make an Instagram caption . You want to know something ? If Michaela didn't want something like that coming her way , then she shouldn't have said the shit she said .
Speaker 1I'm not saying- .
Speaker 2See Lox says yes , thank you , lox .
Speaker 1I'm not saying nobody's not allowed to do anything . Everybody to do anything , everybody's allowed to write and say whatever they want . I'm saying I personally thought eh , I don't know if that was the best caption for right now in the moment , seems a little petty and seems like it is petty .
Speaker 1All you got to do is just sit in that picture , hold your damn gold medal up and you don't have to write anything yeah you know , I , yeah , I hear you but I'm an old man , so you know kids these days kids these days well , and I do think that that also plays into it , or just right like suck it . You know that's better . Better than what she said because she personally directed it right at that one girl . I'm like damn , you were triggered , simone , you got real triggered by that one girl listen , I hear you .
Speaker 2I don't agree with you , but I respect that . That's your opinion and I think that , yeah , it is petty , but yeah , she's the greatest of all time .
Speaker 1Let's get a third party in here , easton . What do you think on this subject matter ? Simone Biles Instagram post caption . Do you like it ? You don't like it . Honestly , I'm not too aware of the situation All right .
Speaker 2Thank you for your contribution , Anyways . What's coming up today , though , is the all-around , and I'm very excited to see it because , unfortunately , it could be Simone's last all-around competition of her career .
Speaker 1I don't think so .
Speaker 2And okay .
Speaker 1She's the greatest ever . She's got more in the tank .
Speaker 2Okay , anything else you want to talk about ? I didn't realize that I was here on a professional Olympic panel . I would have prepared better , so sorry , no , is it her last ? I don't know . I mean , it could be . I don't see what else she has to prove . She is 27 . The oldest gymnast feels like forever . I know that that sounds insane , but before this year they literally nicknamed their team the golden girls because of how old this team average is what's the average ? Like 22.5 years old that's crazy .
Speaker 1That's old , the youngest one is 16 .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean , that's what I'm saying is that gymnastics is an insane sport . I started when I was lox's size . Like it is a very young sport and has traditionally been teenagers . In the olympic games , alian was 22 , and she was referred to as the grandma .
Speaker 2Oh , I remember that , and so now Simone's 27 , and I don't know that physically it's feasible . I mean , yeah , obviously she's doing great , but it's like your body is breaking down the number of hours that you have to train to maintain how competitive she is . But what do I know she could come back . She's the goat .
Speaker 1But it's sad to think that this could be the last one that we'll see her do an all-around competition in yeah , that's why I wonder if she will come back , because she's so much better than everybody else and she's obviously not normal and has taken that average up way higher , so it's like she would be the one to come back at 31 years old . Is it every four years ?
Speaker 2Yeah , yeah , I mean yeah .
Speaker 1Is it four ? Yeah , the .
Speaker 2Olympics . Yeah , yeah , I mean it's always possible . I would never count her down and out , especially after everything we've seen from her . It just I mean , I don't know Like why . What does she have to prove ? She is now has four skills named after her and this afternoon she has the possibility to be able to name a fifth skill after her , which is unheard of . Naming one skill after yourself is unheard of . So you have to basically compete that skill in an international competition and make it . You can throw the skill but not land . It Doesn't count , it will not be called the Sean Booth . But if you throw the skill in international competition and you make it , that now goes in the code of points for all of gymnastics to see that you can learn the Sean Booth on whatever event . This is the skill it is and it's named after you for the rest of eternity .
Speaker 1What would my move be ?
Speaker 2Talking shit with absolutely no information to back it up . That would be the Sean Booth . There's an outside perspective Are you chewing into a microphone right now . I'm about to leave this podcast peanut butter balls do you understand how triggering this is ? You want to talk about triggered . I'm about to say some hurtful things . If you smack your mouth into the microphone thank god we're not wearing headphones I would take the baby and run tell your dad to figure it out . Okay , so now .
Speaker 1Tell your dad to figure it out . Okay , so now is it Simone Biles move one , Simone Biles move two , Simone Biles move three . Is that what they call them ? I can't even look at you .
Speaker 2Yes , biles one , biles two . Biles three , biles four no , potentially Biles five .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2So she has two , she has four , and the only event she's missing is uneven bars , and today is her last time to be able to do that , because she didn't qualify for individual uneven bar event finals .
Speaker 1So she's got to throw it today . Make it successfully in order for it to go in the code of points . How close could you be to nailing biles ? One , two , three , four ?
Speaker 2or five , probably as close as you , so very far , yeah , locks agrees . Um , no , no , these are insane skills that I could never . I could never . There is one other woman who competes one of the biles on floor , um , and so out of the four , almost five skills that she has , only one of them has been done by another human being . That's how difficult they are . Wow , yeah , so you've been watching ? Uh , she's dramatic , so whatever .
Speaker 1Yeah , thanks for agreeing with me . Moving on to the track , have you seen the show on Netflix ? It's pretty sweet . Follows the best runners in the world .
Speaker 2Track has not started up yet . We're still in swimming .
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2Right , oh well , I don't know , you haven't watched , nevermind , Okay , okay , yes .
Speaker 1Moving watch , never mind , okay , okay , yes , moving on , sorry . So it's uh cool series on netflix and it follows the best runners , the sprinters who are like the well-known ones , the , you know , like
Evolution of Olympic Sports
Speaker 1usain boltz . I asked dre the other day I was talking about usain bolt . She doesn't . She never heard of usain bolt . She didn't know who usain bolt is .
Speaker 2That I said you gotta be illegal , you gotta be kidding me , right ? I'm like that is yeah , you don't know that you've never seen that maybe she was actively trying to avoid that .
Speaker 1Yeah , I don't know the , the best pose of all time yeah the greatest sprinter of all time world record yeah , no I mean jamaica I think everybody knows him .
Speaker 2Yeah , apparently not dre , yeah , that's interesting but also very unsurprising from her . I gotta be honest yeah , so these sprinters .
Speaker 1Noah lyles is the best guy in the U S . Now Um other countries . I got a really good guy from France and the girl from the U S remember Shaqari Richardson .
Speaker 2I don't know much about her except for that she's very colorful and can run like hell and , quite honestly , I love it yeah .
Speaker 1And she is very sassy , like she's got attitude .
Speaker 2Is she dramatic too ?
Speaker 1Yeah , I'd say she's dramatic . Okay , definitely . But yeah , she didn't qualify or she got kicked off the last Olympics for testing positive for marijuana .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Which sucked because she was our best runner .
Speaker 2I have heard that that has since been taken off the banned list which it should I mean yeah it's not a performance if you can run faster than everyone in the world .
Speaker 2High , you deserve to be high but also athletes just use thc to recover yeah you know they're well , I think that as we as a society have grown , and gotten smarter and evolved , have realized the benefits of THC as opposed to it being like this slippery slope gateway drug that it was painted to be in the past . But I mean , when you know better , you do better , and I think that we are on our way to be doing better . Obviously , I'm excited for anyone that has made it to the Olympics .
Speaker 2And I just feel like THC is a silly thing to take someone out of a competition for . But what do I know ? I'm not a governing body , so I understand that there's rules , but I just feel like that's not a performance enhancing drug that we should be concerned about .
Speaker 1I agree with you . I agree with you . And they do such a good job with this show . Um , kind of just like building up little rivalries , right , great story . Come back failed drug test . Four years later she's back . What does she have ? Can she beat the world record ? Can she get a gold medal ? And then you have a girl from jamaica who is usa's rival it's always usa and jamaica for sprints and there's this girl from jamaica who's like super like quiet and just like all business . And then you got your car . He just like super flashy .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1And it's just like the two polar opposites . But then they , you know , have races , you know , between the Olympics , so they're lining up next to next to one another and you got the coaches on the sidelines , they're talking and it's just a cool series going back and forth with the men and the women .
Speaker 2I gotta be honest , I haven't graduated from the chapter of gymnastics , yeah , um , and I've been watching swimming only during the prime time , so I have not wrapped my head around the fact that track is coming up yet I , I'll get there it's 10 days baby , I gotta spread myself . I can't spread myself too thin is the entire olympics 10 days .
Speaker 1Yeah , it's just 10 days two weeks , yeah damn weeks , yeah , damn .
Speaker 2I know , and it feels like forever Feels like it's already been a couple weeks . Yeah , but imagine training your entire life In gymnastics . I can only speak , but it's literally your entire life for all in all the time that you're actually competing less than five minutes .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2You put every event , every skill together . When you're actually doing gymnastics competitively , it's like less than five minutes , so your entire life for that . And same with running , like obviously they're trying to be the fastest so you want the shortest amount of time of you actually competing , unless you're katie ledecky and you're just like out there laps ahead of everybody else , swimming for miles . It felt like I don't know if you've watched that , but I saw this meme that I laughed about .
Speaker 2It's like my favorite part of the olympics is when they do the overhead view of the pool and it looks like katie ledecky is in the pool by herself because that's how far ahead she is than everybody else behind her . Yeah , happened again last night crazy good for her . She , I think , is someone that will come back again yeah she has like vocalized that I think she's the quote-unquote like the comparable to Simone in swimming again if I'm speaking out of turn . I am not a swimmer .
Speaker 1I apologize , but she has the best of all time .
Speaker 2She said that she would come back again . She said I will keep coming back until my body gives out , which good for her . Yeah , I don't know if Simone has that , I don't know .
Speaker 1We'll find out . I heard Michael Phel .
Speaker 2I mean , he's not a little friend .
Speaker 1He's a large man .
Speaker 2But Michael Phelps gave him the medal , gave him the hug or whatever , and it was like he broke his record . Then he came to the Olympics and broke it again or something like that . An incredible story , but I love to watch the evolution of sports . You think that Michael Phelps just set these records , or I felt like that . I'm not going to put words in your mouth , but I feel like , oh my God , michael Phelps was just on top of his game , he was just here , but when you think about it , it's been a couple Olympics now .
Speaker 1I know he said that he had the record for 21 years before the French Well also , and the impressive thing , like all of the events , yeah so he was the best in all the events where now everybody kind of specializes and stays in the lane and they train all year , all their life for one event all right , so michael phelps was so good at everything . That's why he was kind of now he's the all-arounder .
Speaker 2Yeah , the simone biles . Yeah , exactly I just want to post a cringy instagram caption , though right right right , we'll have to
Post-Olympics Transition and Reflection
Speaker 2, uh , take that up with him . Maybe we should call Michael Phelps and see what he thinks .
Speaker 1Yeah , let's get him on the horn .
Speaker 2You know , from one goat to another meaning .
Speaker 1Simone , not you by the way I'll call him .
Speaker 2Oh , okay , just FaceTime him up right now .
Speaker 1His phone says he's busy .
Speaker 2Interesting . I wonder why .
Speaker 1Yeah , do not disturb , do not disturb .
Speaker 2I love being competitive . I feel like you love being competitive . I feel like that's what the Olympics is . I'm impressed , slash surprised , slash disappointed that you haven't watched any Olympics .
Speaker 1I know I guess I'll take it no time . That's crazy .
Speaker 2Okay , but for two weeks you can't support your country .
Speaker 1Oh , now I'm not supporting our country , you're not I'm supporting our country . I'm supporting our country . I'm the biggest American there is . Yeah .
Speaker 2That's a little dramatic , if you ask me this is a little dramatic .
Speaker 1I'm pretty American now . I love our country . I just don't have time to watch the Olympics .
Speaker 2I understand .
Speaker 1And I put it on , and every time I've turned on like YouTube TV and you got the split screen of all four . Yeah , nothing interests me .
Speaker 2It's exciting to see people's dreams come true . I think that that's the part that gets me the most . It doesn't matter the sport . I get emotional whenever you see someone accomplish something that you know . Not only has it been their dedication , their coaches , their teammates , their parents , the hours , the money , the sacrifice , all of that to come together . And in money , the sacrifice , all of that to come together . And in america I can't speak for other countries , but in sports like swimming and gymnastics , men's , women , it doesn't matter . Nobody cares about these sports other than right now . So for them to also get a little bit of fame and glory and become the pommel horse guy hell yeah , I love that for them .
Speaker 2yeah , like good for them that makes me feel so warm inside , because you put in the work , you made the effort , you performed , and now you're reaping all the benefits , and as you should .
Speaker 1Yeah , I agree , the sad thing is is like how life is after that . So you post-Olympics depression ?
Speaker 2Oh , so much I've heard it often and it's so sad because truly , think about it realistically . In three months from now , stephen will be able to go to Publix , just fine . No one's going to know he's the pommel horse guy unless he's in an environment that , like you know , lets you know . You know he's signing autographs behind a table with a name tag or something Other than that . I mean Simone's a little different . I think people would recognize her .
Speaker 2She's as tall as locks and she's all over the place in the media for years but for these other olympians who maybe are on a team sport as well and it doesn't have that individualized attention . Yeah , yeah , that's got to be a weird mental adjustment talk about 15 minutes of fame it's just like up and down . Well , you work so slowly , your entire life , to get there for to just like firework into the air . And then it just well what ?
Speaker 1about to earth . But what about the people who didn't make the Olympic roster or they didn't place and they didn't get a medal ? So you worked your entire life , this was your last Olympics and then boom . Now what do you do with your life and mid-20s ?
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1It's crazy . You spent since you were , like you said , locks of size . Your entire life was focused on Olympic metal . You didn't get one . Now what
Journey of Athletes and Parenthood
Speaker 1?
Speaker 2Well , I think I think in some ways that might be easier . I know that's a loaded statement , but I think I'm not saying easier . How do I want to say this ? I think in some ways the recovery from that is just different . I wouldn't say easier , it's just different . Because you got to not make the team within your own cocoon . You don't know the . Can you name a swimmer that didn't make the team ? Can you name a gymnast that didn't make the team ? No , but you can name the ones that did and it's like they don't get the taste of the fame and like the rush . So that's obviously unfortunate , but I do kind of feel like that's easier to recover from .
Speaker 1Well , yeah , because you're not recovering from anything .
Speaker 2Well , you're recovering from an immense disappointment . It's just not in the public eye and everything you should know of anyone that recovering in the comfort of your own home is much different than recovering at the scrutiny of the public .
Speaker 1Yeah , but I just feel like the Olympic Olympians who made the team , who got the medals , they're able to utilize that for years . Oh , yes , you know they can , they can you know ? Know they'll like the next year they're gonna be doing events , they're gonna get paid , they will get sponsorships . It's gonna be like , hey , we got olympic silver medalists . Yep , the other people is just like well , now I gotta work full-time job yeah , it's kind of similar to nashville or anybody . Artists , you come here , what's the expiration date ? Like at what ?
Speaker 1point like an actress or an actor . You're working your entire life . You get to 28 , 29 , 30 , mid thirties . You still haven't made it . You're still struggling to pay rent . At what time do you throw that towel in ?
Speaker 2Right , well , I feel like it applies to both music and sports , I guess . But something that I hear around town here is just like you know , make sure you're nice to people on the way up , especially when it's real quick because , guess who you're gonna see on the way down ?
Speaker 2yeah , those same people , and I can name specific artists , specific managers , people that had a real quick rise that may not last or have already started not to last , and they're on the back nine and they're on the way down . And let me tell you , everybody remembers how you treated them on the way up Exactly , and so I think that's a stupid game , the whole thing .
Speaker 1It is a stupid game , but at the same time , it's a lesson in humility .
Speaker 2You cannot be the goat for forever .
Speaker 1But it's like oh no , exactly . And then to those same artists who made it up quick , it's like oh well , where was everybody before you made it ? And then there's a quote that I saw a couple of weeks ago . I don't know where I saw it , but it was something like you are one success away from having everybody say I knew you could do it , and one , one major accomplishment away from everybody saying , oh yeah , like I like you , you know it's like , but until then nobody gives a shit nope , no , I don't know it's .
Speaker 2I obviously don't know what it's like to be an artist . I've worked with a lot of them . I feel like I relate more to the athlete mindset , but I think that there's a lot of similarities because essentially , you're both just trying to be the best at your craft yeah again , another mental , emotional , human experiment .
Speaker 2Yeah , I would love to just be a fly on the wall at the olympics though , to just really absorb it and see , because I think something that I wish I could feel , that you can't feel through the television screen is the energy of the arena . I would love the Olympics are in LA in 2028 and it is on my bucket list . I would love to make it to at least one gymnastics event in LA in 2028 . I have already started scouting . If you have any hookups , please let me know . I would like to go . I don't know that I would .
Speaker 2I think I would be so overwhelmed , I would just I'd be so emotional to be able to witness that in real life . It's just the best of the best of the sport that I love , the sport that shaped me into who I am . I know that sounds so cliche , but everything goes back to that . The good , the bad , the ugly and everything in between is just like . I can't imagine witnessing that in real life . And you know what ? You see how important the crowd is because of the difference the Tokyo Olympics to this Olympics are . There was nobody in the crowd in Tokyo and guess what ? It showed the energy , none , no crowd . Can you imagine making it to the Olympics and nobody can come and watch ?
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2That's an aspect that helps you so so much . And they were robbed of that .
Speaker 1Yeah , I would love for it to be on home turf in the USA as an Olympian .
Speaker 2You know the crowd . It's going to be crazy , oh my gosh . And you know what ? Maybe that's the kick that Simone needs to come back is that she doesn't have to travel far . She's right there in la babe , come on back yeah , let's watch it one more time . I think she'll be back you do , you really think so ? I do okay I don't think so I think she'll be back .
Speaker 1I'm rooting for her yeah , as long as she's not too dramatic though as long as I'm sure we'll get a bunch of headlines in the next four years , though , of simone biles and I hope so .
Speaker 2I really do hope so . Yeah , I mean , I hope she's not cringe and dramatic for you , but I think that she has completely changed the sport , so much that it would be such a shame if she didn't stay in the spotlight of the sport for years to come , which I think at this point is physically impossible . Like Michael Phelps is now commentating , other retired gymnasts are now commentating . I think Simone will step into a space where she will still be a prominent figure for years and years and years to come , for the rest of her life .
Speaker 1Yeah , absolutely . She'll be a big part of US gymnastics till the day she dies , Loxie B we put him to sleep , finally , finally . That was a tough little go there . That's where it gets a little bit tougher now , because he needs to move , wants to be entertained , which the first few months .
Speaker 2He can just sleep and he's still pretty chill , though he's still very chill , he's good he likes to uh stand up .
Speaker 1Now , though , like he doesn't like to lay down , he wants to be up and move in . He's also been saying his first word what is it ? Got it on on camera . He's been saying it the last few nights actually .
Speaker 2What is ?
Speaker 1it and Dre sent me this this morning . We'll let everybody hear Lox's very first word let's go , let's go .
Speaker 2That's really cute .
Speaker 1Did you hear yourself Loxie ?
Speaker 2Did you say dad there ?
Speaker 1You keep saying it the last couple of days , let's go . We were sitting there eating dinner and then he said , dad , dad . And then we both like stopped and we're like did he just ?
Speaker 2Was that English Was that ?
Speaker 1real . Yeah , hi , buddy , so he's been . I want to believe that he's saying dada . It's cause he say it so much . I hear it's easier to say dada than mama , but I'm going to just say that he .
Speaker 2Listen , ride that wave baby . Yeah , I , you know what I think , mama , mama and dada dada are very , very similar .
Speaker 1So yeah , very similar .
Speaker 2So yeah , one for dad . I'm sure you know in a couple . I don't even know how long it takes , but from what I've heard is that they're just real big mama's boys when they're little , but then all of a sudden , it's going to be I want to go have fun with dad , but I want to be nurtured by mom , so he's going to go to you for a good time and go to mom for the hug and you know whatever cliche traditional yeah things that we've learned about human behavior over time .
Speaker 2I'm sure those will take place , but you always have the dub in the dad , dad , dad , dad , dad category . So good for you , buddy , your first gold medal of fatherhood .
Speaker 1He's a mama's boy . He's obsessed with his mom . Um but I heard that their favorite , their like first best friend favorite person is their dad , because they are so attached to their mom that they're basically one together . You know what I'm saying ? Like , he's so like he looks at the dad as like somebody separate yeah . But he's just so attached to his mom that that's what I heard .
Speaker 2I don't know how true it is , but I can see that he was living rent-free for 10 months in there . Like obviously they're going to share a bond .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2But I think that dads also just like traditionally represent fun , yeah , and the roughhousing , and this and that , and then mom is nurturing . You follow , you get a boo-boo , you go to mama .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Oh , mama will come here and hug you Just a little more like nurturing and cuddly , but yeah , I know that you will be also both . What are you doing right now , are you ?
Speaker 1hosting . I was recording Lux holding my hands Mid-podcast .
Speaker 2I'm trying to talk to you , I'm listening to you , I'm taking a video . I don't even know what I was saying .
Speaker 1I'm the rough house fun guy , but also like I'm way more crazy than Dre when it comes to like safety and like pretends to be shocked .
Speaker 2I mean , I was over at your house when you weren't there hanging out with Dre and locks last week and she was telling me that the little teething that are made , Sean , I'm telling you someone way smarter than you invented this specifically for babies that are his exact age and exactly how far along they are . I promise you he's good .
Speaker 1They apparently dissolve . Yes , but what if one of these you snap off three or four inches and it goes right down your throat ? Is this going to dissolve in the back of your throat ?
Speaker 2How the fark is your child going to fit three and four inches of a snack down his throat ?
Speaker 1I'm saying there's these little sticks and they're not sticks , they're fat .
Speaker 2It's like a flattened banana .
Speaker 1No , we got these sticks too . I don't know which one you're talking about .
Speaker 2I'm talking about the one that was a flattened banana . I was like locks is not going to choke you can . It dissolves before you could even physically choke , like that is the science behind it . Yeah , you are good , my guy . I promise you you are good yeah , the eating scares the crap out of me I understand that obviously you're just protective because he's your son and you don't want him to choke , but like you gotta chill , you're gonna choke yourself out stressing about him eating . And he's eating . You got , you're doing it right .
Speaker 1It's not like he's eating a steak burger I mean dre will just toss anything on his . I'm like you gotta cut that up a little smaller . No , she's like oh my god , sean stop . She thinks I'd feed him bottles until he's like five years old you would breastfeed him if you could let's be honest I'm honestly probably not shocked if you've tried , but look at his hair right now .
Speaker 2Yeah , a little mohawk .
Speaker 1He's got gel in there . Dre put gel in his hair this morning and it's a little mohawk , I did not know that .
Speaker 2Yeah , you look so handsome .
Speaker 1Loxie B First time . I was also thinking yesterday . I'm like this dude hasn't worn any shoes in like eight months . How good of a life is that that's barefoot .
Speaker 2I dream of living that life .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2You're so cute , Loxie B .
Speaker 1All right , so let's finish this off with the absolute worst . And since we're on the topic of Instagram captions today , why don't we do the absolute worst Instagram trend or something that you see on Instagram when you're scrolling you're like oh .
Speaker 2I don't want to see any more of that . You lead us off . Okay , I need a second to think about mine .
Speaker 1Don't want to judge First of all , especially mothers or fathers . Now I've become I've become an Instagram dad where , like , all I want to do is post .
Speaker 1I have so many photos and videos of him that's like my entire camera roll and I like have to refrain from posting everything , but I just want them for the memories . Sure , and I'm like you'll understand once you're a dad or mom , but I remember like before I had a kid , I'm like I don't care about your kids . Like stop posting about your kids . I've become
Invasion of Privacy in Social Media
Speaker 1that .
Speaker 1But one thing I see , or I've seen , are people setting up their cameras and they show the night routine of them getting up and feeding . I'm like , so you're telling me you have a camera in your bedroom the entire night that you sleep and then your baby cries and they get up out of bed like yawn , and then they grab the baby and they're sitting on the side of the bed and they're feeding the baby and then trying to look all cute and they put the baby back down and they go back to bed and the camera still rolls and they show how many times during the night they do that . Mike , you record your entire night of sleep for an Instagram post . Have you seen that ?
Speaker 2I have seen that , but I just think it's awfully cheeky . I don't even know what the word is coming from you , someone who is an influencer , who also makes money off recording your life .
Speaker 1These are a lot of them are like mommy , influencers . I know , but again , I would never set up a camera the entire night yeah like , how much damn battery and how much storage do you have first of all ?
Speaker 2and it's like I mean , I do think that we have really crossed a line of like nothing is private anymore but it's like , and then you know like what if your baby didn't cry at all that night ?
Speaker 1are you like waking up your baby , are you like ?
Speaker 2you know , it just seems , it seems very staged . Yeah , it's not genuine . I mean , I don't feel , I feel like any , like , oh , this is my day they're like turn to the camera , be like yeah , when they , when they wake up and someone's already recording them , like , yeah , that's obviously staged , that's not when you woke up . Yeah , like I could do without the dramatics . I agree with you , it's a little okay , we see what you're doing here . It just feels invasive to me .
Speaker 2When it comes to the kids , though , and I don't know I don't have kids , so like I can't talk , but it just feels like some things like , but then again , okay , so let's play devil's advocate , right , if you are sitting ? At home and you're nursing your kid through the night and you see an influencer that you like also doing it . Okay , you , for a half a second , don't feel as alone . I don't know .
Speaker 1I feel like there's good to it , but I do understand the cringy aspect of it . And listen , if I was getting paid by a brand to be my , I'd record all night it's exactly what I just said to you and you said now , did I not ?
Speaker 2am I hallucinating ? Today , I feel like this podcast has been a lot of oh , did you want to hold my hand Hallucinating ? Listen , I don't have necessarily a cringey trend , but I just have something that I feel like is the absolute worst , and again it's like revolving around intimate moments and everything , but I just when you go to a wedding , there is a professional photographer and videographer on site put your phone down grandma june is not going to have like any sort of footage that is so captivating that she needs to have her iphone 4 out to capture it .
Speaker 2It bums me out when I go to weddings and it's just like I'm thinking of the professional photo of the bride walking to the love of her life and someone just right in the aisle puts their cell phone .
Speaker 2Like put your phone away , you guys it's like , first of all , respect the bride and groom . Second , just like also respect the photographer that they paid thousands of dollars to show up and shoot this for , right . And also , when you get the photos back , you don't want a million iphones in the photo , you want the people that you love , right ? I don't know if that's a trend , I don't know if that fits the absolute worst category that you're asking for , but I do feel like it's such a bummer that we've just lost all secrecy or all privacy and like , yes , I could play devil's advocate all day and think of the other side .
Speaker 1I know it's important here , but I just like just there should be some things where you put your phone down . Yeah , now there's the last couple of ways I've been to . The priest will walk down the aisle or somebody be like um , please , everybody , turn your phones off .
Speaker 2The bride and the groom have asked that nobody takes photos or videos and I think that that is a very easy request for your guests to follow , and if they cannot , you shouldn't be allowed to participate that's what we're doing , yeah telling everyone to stop .
Speaker 2Yeah , it's , it's you guys , we got it . We got it . This person does this for a living . We're gonna have the most beautiful photos . I will send them to you the second I have them . Please put your phone down . And the other thing that goes with that is that you know , grandma june has absolutely no boundaries and she's posting a picture of you at the aisle while you're still in the aisle , like you know that that's real-time Facebook updating for her and all her girls to see , and it's just like , bro , let me have five minutes of a wedding .
Speaker 1It's the highlight of Grandma June's month .
Speaker 2Listen , I know I'm not shitting on Grandma June , but it's just like come on , give us a sec , let us have this moment , and I and I also just feel like that contributes to me not wanting to have a wedding I know that sounds , as you would say , dramatic , but I'm okay with being dramatic .
Speaker 1So does that happen every time ? Like every wedding , someone's like got a phone out ?
Speaker 2yes , yeah oh yeah , and I feel like it's only uptick over
Influence of Social Media on Weddings
Speaker 2. You know , obviously everybody has a phone . Now we're for sure it's just a bummer , because I feel like the wedding industry in general has changed so much that now we're adding like oh so now we have our semi-professional photographers . It's like no , you know , that's a bad photo . Just let us do it , let us live .
Speaker 1Let us be in love what do you got easton , anything on instagram that you see you're like I could do without that uh the day in the life videos ?
Speaker 2don't give a shit yeah , I don't care .
Speaker 1You don't care what their day is like from morning to sun , up to sundown . I don't care , all All right .
Speaker 2Especially when you can tell it's reenacted and you actually just stage the entire thing and just say , okay , yeah , I don't think anyone cares Noted .
Speaker 1That's a good one . That's a good one , Lox . What about you , buddy ?
Speaker 2I just wanted Lox to stand up and say goodbye to everybody , because it's the end of Are you the smiliest , happiest boy out there . Smiliest , happiest boy . And look at those little leg rolls . I want to eat them .
Speaker 1All right , lox , let's do it . Team on three . One , two , three , team Face fun .
