Feb. 19, 2026
Our New American Gold-Medal Darling Has a Foul Mouth and We Love It
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RSS Feed 20 year old Alysa Liu just became the first American woman to win Olympic figure skating gold in 24 years! After retiring from the sport at 16, Liu came back to the sport with a passion and joy for skating, with zero focus on her score, or winning. Watching her skate today without fear of the outcome, was a lesson for all of us on how to live better.
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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, it is Thursday, February nineteenth. Then that's what I'm fucking talking about. That is a direct quote from your newly minted gold medal winning Alyssa Lou figure skating champ at the Olympics. And welcome to this episode, very animated episode of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: We have a new star, we have a new story, we have a new comeback story.
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Speaker 2: We have a new hero of these Olympics. It's a Lissul Lou.
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Speaker 3: It's a Lissa Lou.
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Speaker 4: It's been twenty four years since we have seen a United States of America female figure skater take gold at the Winter Olympics.
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Speaker 3: It's been since two thousand and two.
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Speaker 4: And the cool thing is if any of you all remember, of course, that was Sarah Hughes. She will in the stands watching Alyssa Lou win gold.
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Speaker 3: That was such a cool full circle moment.
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Speaker 4: They showed her watching, and of course all of us are thinking, could she be watching?
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Speaker 3: Finally the drought ending Alyssa.
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Speaker 1: Lou, Folks, is the hero we need right now in a lot of ways, and she taught us a lot of lessons at twenty years old, this young lady skates with and she bounces around life and on camera with a joy that we all need to pay attention to for a lot of reasons. But folks, I assume you were watching, But history was just made and a remarkable moment just took place at the Olympics. Alyssa lou Yes, she's the first American to do so in a long time. Robes, But this young lady pulled off something that is admirable and unlikely. She retired from this sport at sixteen. Why because she didn't like it? Yeah, because she got burnt out, and you know what, she took some time off. She came back and said I love what I'm doing and came back without the same pressure and law and behold, Robes looked.
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Speaker 3: She wins gold.
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Speaker 4: I said to you, I just watched a twenty year old show the world something it's taken me fifty years to figure out, and I'm still figuring it out.
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Speaker 3: We are all in each one of our.
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Speaker 4: Lives, so invested in the outcome of everything. We want to control everything. And we heard her give an interview and she said it, She said, I don't really care what happens if I fall, If I don't I don't.
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Speaker 3: I'm out there doing what I love and that's fine.
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Speaker 4: Easy to say maybe, But she skated with that same mentality. You could tell she was out there joyful, enjoying herself. She did not look like she was scared, felt like she had any pressure she had to be perfect, none of that. She was loose and free and it was It was fun to watch. You know, when you watch somebody who is trying to be perfect, you are on the edge of your seat. You are so nervous that they're going to be make a mistake. That never happened for a second. Watching Alyssa Lou perform.
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Speaker 1: I felt that about the two Japanese skaters that she was up against at the end. I felt that about most skaters that we experienced.
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Speaker 2: She was a rare case. Folks.
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Speaker 1: We just watched and was watch live and I think they're going to play it again in primetime, and if you have peacock, go back and watch it, watch the replay. But if you get a chance to see it in primetime, pay attention to everything this young lady does Alyssa Lou. Pay attention to how she interacts with her fellow competitors, how she interacts with her coaches. We're talking about the most athletically pressure charge situation possible. Super Bowl. Sure, fine, there are other championships. This happens once every four years. This is the and Roopes. It's always important. We taught gold medals, but winning a gold in an individual curling or it's not even individual curly. I don't even know curly. I'm saying. My point is all that stuff's great, but winning the snowboarding downhill is not the same as being the darling of figure skating. So the pressure is one thing at the Olympics. The pressure on this event is something else. She handled it better than I handle making you coffee in the morning.
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Speaker 4: You know what, And you don't make me coffee in the morning because I's too pressure filled.
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Speaker 3: It's scary, it's funny.
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Speaker 4: No, But the point is in anyone who watches this understands this is a sport where if you make one.
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Speaker 3: Tiny error that maybe even.
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Speaker 4: Those of us at home can barely see, it's the difference between being on the podium or not. And when in gold, you have to have not only a perfect performance but that's just technically speaking, but then you also need to have that flare of that pozazz, and that is what Alyssa Lou had.
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Speaker 3: She had this.
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Speaker 4: Joyful energy that just emanated from her. And once we watched her, look, we knew the people who were going next had higher scores going into this final event, and yet all of us said, how could anyone beat that?
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Speaker 3: Just that was a gold metal skate peri period periods.
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Speaker 1: Nothing and those other the Japanese skaters were fantastic, But the entire time we were watching them skate, you were on your edge. Oop, that was close, you thinking a mistake is coming. There was a joy with Alyssa skating that quite frankly, I wasn't familiar with. And the thing is Robes what makes the story more remarkable. Yes, sixteen years old. She retired from her profession at sixteen. This was back in twenty twenty two. Now she's been trying to come back. She had issues with COVID, She had issues with her training and how she was able to train during COVID. She finally comes out of retirement Rodes with a whole new attitude. She says she really did get way down by the pressure of skating from that time you're five to sixteen, you get burnt out.
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Speaker 3: That makes sense.
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Speaker 1: By the sixteen, she's burnt out done. The joy wasn't there, the pressure was there. She says, she wanted to even go hang out with her friends, be a kid, hang out with I think she's got several brothers and sisters. She wanted to go be a kid, and she did. How robes she needs to be studied. It made her appreciate it more and it made her a better skater.
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Speaker 4: I'm still in awe because, look, having watched a lot of Olympics this time around, there are so many lessons we can take from these athletes and apply them to our own lives in so many different ways.
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Speaker 3: But just seeing this young woman at the height.
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Speaker 4: Of her career and certainly the best of the best in the world, be able to go on that ice knowing that any mistake she makes or could make is the.
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Speaker 3: End of her Olympic dream.
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Speaker 4: But if your Olympic dream is Justice Gate and not to meddle, it wouldn't ever be the end. So I don't know how she put it, but I was trying to just take in her wisdom at twenty saying, it doesn't matter because I'm doing what I love and I know we can all say that out loud, but to actually live it and believe it and go through life with that attitude, it doesn't matter what happens as long as I enjoy the ride. And yes, she put in the work and she has the talent and the skill all of that. It's not as if she's just waiting for things to happen. She is making them happen, but she doesn't. She's not basing her joy on the outcome of what she does. That is the key to life, Isn't that? The key to peace? Isn't that the key to happiness?
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Speaker 1: That is everything that every self help author is preaching. Everybody's telling you. Eckhart totally, of Gabby Bernstein, all of them are telling us the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Are they not rolled?
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Speaker 1: When you stop being invested in the outcome, you're living in the moment, and that is the key to happiness, is what we want. But it's really the key to piece. That's what we all want. Okay, fine, read the book, knock yourself out. We can send you copies, We got them all. However, if you don't want to read all that stuff, watch tonight's replay of the Olympic figure skating final. Of the women and don't take your eyes off Alyssa lou all night. How is it possible, Robes. What's possible is she got burnt out, and it seems it happens to us later in life. But she learned something from the age of five to the age of sixteen. That was eleven years of experience. Yes, it happened very early, but don't we all do that. It usually doesn't happen till thirty five forty five. She learned it early, and then she found her joy in her piece and she's excelling.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: This young lady has taught the lesson and is living it right in front of us on the biggest stage. You cannot argue with any of her methods.
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Speaker 2: It works. Holy Hell, Quad God. And this young lady, what did he say?
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Speaker 1: Too much pressure? He's worried about the outcome. The eyes that are on me, he said, all the things that ain't.
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Speaker 3: Even come out of my mouth exactly.
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Speaker 4: And think about Amber Glenn, by the way, who was impressive as hell today, by the way, but she even talked about and they were playing Madonna telling her you've got to win gold, bring home the gold.
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Speaker 3: It was all about the gold.
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Speaker 4: If you are singularly focused on an outcome, which by the way, I would assume most Olympic athletes are, that's exactly what you visualize winning the gold. They tell you a lot of athletes who go to therapy, they tell you to visualize winning, visualize the gold. Right, But that also can create a lot of pressure that undoes any of the good you've put in, because now you're thinking, that's all that matters.
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Speaker 3: The outcome is all that matters.
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Speaker 4: So to see and hear someone like Alissa have a completely different way of approaching these games, and then to see what that outcome actually ended up becoming, it's remarkable.
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Speaker 2: Applied to anything.
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Speaker 1: Apply to your driving test, applied to your first date, Apply it to your relationship you got going on right now, Apply to the interview you gotta go do to get a job, apply to anything in the world. And how much better off if you just say you know, I'm going here and just crush it.
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Speaker 2: See what happens.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if it works out fine, the relationship you're in right now, if you stop being invested in the outcome, how much different would you behave?
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Speaker 4: Yes, and look, the input is what you have control over. And that is what she did, and that is what all of us can do. We can control what we put into something. But as long as you don't expect a return or an outcome, you're gonna be happy because you're doing what you love with the person who you do love. Apparently if it's about a relationship, and then you just say, I gave it my all and that makes me happy.
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Speaker 1: And folks, we are going to be talking about Alyssa Loo for a long time, for the rest of Olympic history. And she is having an impact right now, yes, on our hearts, on our minds, but also possibly on our fashion.
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Speaker 2: All right, we continue here.
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Speaker 1: Alyssa Lou just what minutes ago, won the gold medal in the figure skating competition.
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Speaker 2: Rose.
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Speaker 1: This is she is now the darling of the Olympics. There were a bunch of big stories about a bunch of big names. Now she is a big name. Obviously she's a star. But she was a part of a trio, right and I guess a lot of people probably lump them together. But we talk about Lindsey Vaughn, Mikayla Schiffriend, the quad God. There were some bigger individual names, correct, hers was there she has now become the biggest story American story of these Olympics.
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Speaker 3: That's absolutely fair to say.
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Speaker 4: Also because she's just so humble in all of it, just and her joy is so palpable. This wasn't a a razor focused athlete who was there set out solely to win gold, which is what we're used to seeing, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. This is what makes her so unique and stand out. She had that California hey vibe, like you know, Sela Vie and just had this cool chill. She made figure skating cool, like in the same way snowboarders make alpine events cool. I felt like Alyssa Loo makes figure skating like cool in a way that it maybe wasn't before.
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Speaker 2: Well, less uptight doing this, It's okay, Like both can be true. You can. She had a great.
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Speaker 1: Technical score an artistic score because she can handle both. I think robes, there were some of them, some of the skaters. It's not just about the music they choose, but it's energy, and she stepped on that thing. I think Terrylepenske was the one that said it.
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Speaker 2: She brings you.
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Speaker 1: It's like she brings you onto the ice. Like you're down there. She was wonderful today.
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Speaker 4: She skated to Donna Summer, which was amazing. So she's got seventies disco blaring, how could you not possibly have fun? First of all with that, she wears this gold sequined outfit to pair with her Donna Summer disco routine, and it was just fun from start to finish. We were swaying, we were moving, we were it was like watching an incredible performance. I forgot she was skating for gold as she was skating in glimmering Gold.
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Speaker 1: Because she didn't look like the moment was anything other than a practice for her and a good time and fun, and we just had to be there checking it out. It seems impossible rolled and it seems like something well, she's just cut different and whatnot. I think we're all capable of doing what she did. She had to go through the lessons she did very early on.
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Speaker 2: But ropes.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we should look at her as a super freak, right, I mean, she's a super freak as her talent, sure, but she did something mentally today that I thought was remarkable and juxtaposed it with so many of the other stories and athletes in high profiles who admit that this moment got to them to see a woman who has been at every turn saying I don't really care if I win the gold. Obviously she wants it, would love it. But ropes I believed her.
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Speaker 4: I did too when she said it. And when you see her skate, you can't help but believe that. You can tell she's not nervous, she's not under pressure, she's not terrified that she'll fall, none of it. She was just having a And had she fallen, she would have gotten back up with a smile on her face.
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Speaker 3: I have no doubt. But because she wasn't nervous, almost certainly that's why she.
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Speaker 4: Didn't fall, because all of these figure skaters are at a level where they don't have to fall. It's the nerves, it's the adrenaline, it's the pressure that you succumb to in those moments. So if you can really let go of the outcome, and if all of us could do that, just think what we could accomplish. Just think about the relationships we could repair even or just strengthen, because suddenly you're not invested in controlling everything around you, You're just enjoying the riot.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of awesome. Again, a twenty year old taught us all this. She's also teaching us that there's more than one way to wear your hair.
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Speaker 2: It looks one way.
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Speaker 1: And I said today, I only want to see her in gold and black outfits when she because the hair is wild and it's fun, and when it's up you can't really tell the pattern Ropes. She had took it down afterwards, and what would you describe it as? It was like a gold black gold thing.
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Speaker 4: It reminded me of a Davy Crockett hat with a tail, except for his whole Her whole hair is Davy Crockett.
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Speaker 2: The raccoon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks, yes, that is raccoon stripes.
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Speaker 4: But I was already suggesting that Halloween twenty twenty six, I think we're going to see some Alissa Lou costumes.
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Speaker 3: I think that's probably going to be a fun one.
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Speaker 4: I can already see the wigs in the Halloween pop up stores.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Ropes, it works on her, It works well.
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Speaker 3: Completely.
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Speaker 1: And so the quote we use at the top with that language is the language that went out on NBC broadcast. She was coming off the ice, coming to her coach. She hasn't been greeted by anybody yet. And she turns to the camera that's following her she's coming off the ice and says, that's what I'm fucking talking about.
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Speaker 2: And you you, that.
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Speaker 1: Is not the tone, the language, the added to the energy we are used to seeing from our little American darlings on the ice.
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Speaker 4: No, you know, we're always used to seeing these beautiful ballerina, you know, very sweet and demure young women who look, yes as elegant and maybe even quiet and humble. No, this girl is just her California self. Like I said, she reminds me of someone who would be like a skateboarder or a snowboarder, and she just is herself. She's got wait, we learned from Sabine, she's got these piercings that actually go over her teeth.
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Speaker 3: They're called Smiley's.
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Speaker 1: But yes, there, everybody, these might become a new thing. I didn't know when when I first saw it. I thought they were attached to her teeth. I thought she had braces us something attached to teeth.
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Speaker 2: I think we were in the same place.
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Speaker 1: Actually, what that thing is on her teeth, you all, is a hook that's actually pierced through her gun and it hangs down over those teeth and it's called a smiley.
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Speaker 4: So she's super cool and way cooler than me, and I would not be willing to go through that pain if you paint me. But anyway, she's that girl, right. She just does her and you can see it, you can feel it. She's as authentic as they come. And she's not your typical yes, you're right, Gold medal figure skating winner. No, she's not who you would think of typically when you think of someone who is in that category.
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Speaker 3: And I love it.
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Speaker 1: I love that she is this country's representative right now. She is our star. She is the one we are holding up and we should celebrate for what she has gone through. She has come back. Look, we got others we can hold up later, and there are plenty of reasons and we don't need to talk about the disappointments. Everybody we should be proud of them at the Olympics robes, but this young lady has She has robes we talked about. This is those commercials where they say this, we're all on the same team. Yes please. I shudder to think if anyone could try to say anything about this young lady other than she is us. She is exactly what we need right now. And I just love her robes, her diversity, that she's from Oakland, her parents was her backdrop, her dad her background.
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Speaker 2: Her dad was in the stands today. So she's just she's.
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Speaker 1: A diverse kid in a lot of ways, but mature and talented and joyful and all of those things we want to root for right now. And there was some stuff when Amber Glynn went through what she went through. Look, I know it's social media, but people want to attack for this and that and the third, but for Robes, this young lady, I just she's what we need right now.
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Speaker 2: And she is an American superhero.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you wanted to know her background. This is actually really cool. She is the daughter her father emigrated from China. He actually escaped China after the nineteen eighty nine Tienamen Square protests.
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Speaker 3: So she is America.
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Speaker 4: And she was actually born in California via a surrogate mother. So this is she is as modern and as unique and as diverse as this country hopefully is still proud of, because that is what makes us the United.
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Speaker 3: States of America.
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Speaker 1: May I wrote there you go. Is there anybody in this country that doesn't want to claim her? Is there something about her that's not good enough, that's not us enough, that's not American enough, that's not patriotic enough that we won't raise, lift her up and celebrate her. I just she is just special, man, and I am so we want every moment of Did we miss a figure skating moment during the Olympics.
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Speaker 3: We didn't.
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Speaker 4: We were glued, absolutely glued to the television and it's been phenomenal And it was just fun because we know we have had some setbacks in Team USA and certainly the expectations that were placed on so many athletes, So it was really fun to see the athlete who actually had zero expectations on take home gold.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, folks, we appreciate, appreciate you always going along with us. Y'all can tell we hop on we coming in hot sometimes, but we were really lit with this one. Yeah, me and you and Samin been kind of camped out for the week for her winter break watching nothing but Olympics with a wonderful backdrop of a frozen HUDs Hudson River.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's the perfect.
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Speaker 4: This has been one of my favorite Winter Olympics and we still have a little bit more owen. By the way, just want to give a shout out way to go team USA on women's hockey taking home gold again. We were actually simultaneously watching the figure skating while we were cheering on the women in USA hockey, so congrats to them as well, and thank.
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Speaker 1: You Peacock for making all of this available and possible. With the venue feeds, y'all have been great. We have three screens up NonStop. This has been wonderful. But yes, Robes, a day for the ladies who made this probably the biggest day of the Olympics for the Americans agreed And with that, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with us on TJ. Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Roeboch talk to yus too,
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, it is Thursday, February nineteenth. Then that's what I'm fucking talking about. That is a direct quote from your newly minted gold medal winning Alyssa Lou figure skating champ at the Olympics. And welcome to this episode, very animated episode of Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: We have a new star, we have a new story, we have a new comeback story.
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Speaker 2: We have a new hero of these Olympics. It's a Lissul Lou.
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Speaker 3: It's a Lissa Lou.
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Speaker 4: It's been twenty four years since we have seen a United States of America female figure skater take gold at the Winter Olympics.
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Speaker 3: It's been since two thousand and two.
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Speaker 4: And the cool thing is if any of you all remember, of course, that was Sarah Hughes. She will in the stands watching Alyssa Lou win gold.
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Speaker 3: That was such a cool full circle moment.
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Speaker 4: They showed her watching, and of course all of us are thinking, could she be watching?
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Speaker 3: Finally the drought ending Alyssa.
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Speaker 1: Lou, Folks, is the hero we need right now in a lot of ways, and she taught us a lot of lessons at twenty years old, this young lady skates with and she bounces around life and on camera with a joy that we all need to pay attention to for a lot of reasons. But folks, I assume you were watching, But history was just made and a remarkable moment just took place at the Olympics. Alyssa lou Yes, she's the first American to do so in a long time. Robes, But this young lady pulled off something that is admirable and unlikely. She retired from this sport at sixteen. Why because she didn't like it? Yeah, because she got burnt out, and you know what, she took some time off. She came back and said I love what I'm doing and came back without the same pressure and law and behold, Robes looked.
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Speaker 3: She wins gold.
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Speaker 4: I said to you, I just watched a twenty year old show the world something it's taken me fifty years to figure out, and I'm still figuring it out.
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Speaker 3: We are all in each one of our.
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Speaker 4: Lives, so invested in the outcome of everything. We want to control everything. And we heard her give an interview and she said it, She said, I don't really care what happens if I fall, If I don't I don't.
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Speaker 3: I'm out there doing what I love and that's fine.
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Speaker 4: Easy to say maybe, But she skated with that same mentality. You could tell she was out there joyful, enjoying herself. She did not look like she was scared, felt like she had any pressure she had to be perfect, none of that. She was loose and free and it was It was fun to watch. You know, when you watch somebody who is trying to be perfect, you are on the edge of your seat. You are so nervous that they're going to be make a mistake. That never happened for a second. Watching Alyssa Lou perform.
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Speaker 1: I felt that about the two Japanese skaters that she was up against at the end. I felt that about most skaters that we experienced.
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Speaker 2: She was a rare case. Folks.
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Speaker 1: We just watched and was watch live and I think they're going to play it again in primetime, and if you have peacock, go back and watch it, watch the replay. But if you get a chance to see it in primetime, pay attention to everything this young lady does Alyssa Lou. Pay attention to how she interacts with her fellow competitors, how she interacts with her coaches. We're talking about the most athletically pressure charge situation possible. Super Bowl. Sure, fine, there are other championships. This happens once every four years. This is the and Roopes. It's always important. We taught gold medals, but winning a gold in an individual curling or it's not even individual curly. I don't even know curly. I'm saying. My point is all that stuff's great, but winning the snowboarding downhill is not the same as being the darling of figure skating. So the pressure is one thing at the Olympics. The pressure on this event is something else. She handled it better than I handle making you coffee in the morning.
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Speaker 4: You know what, And you don't make me coffee in the morning because I's too pressure filled.
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Speaker 3: It's scary, it's funny.
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Speaker 4: No, But the point is in anyone who watches this understands this is a sport where if you make one.
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Speaker 3: Tiny error that maybe even.
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Speaker 4: Those of us at home can barely see, it's the difference between being on the podium or not. And when in gold, you have to have not only a perfect performance but that's just technically speaking, but then you also need to have that flare of that pozazz, and that is what Alyssa Lou had.
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Speaker 3: She had this.
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Speaker 4: Joyful energy that just emanated from her. And once we watched her, look, we knew the people who were going next had higher scores going into this final event, and yet all of us said, how could anyone beat that?
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Speaker 3: Just that was a gold metal skate peri period periods.
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Speaker 1: Nothing and those other the Japanese skaters were fantastic, But the entire time we were watching them skate, you were on your edge. Oop, that was close, you thinking a mistake is coming. There was a joy with Alyssa skating that quite frankly, I wasn't familiar with. And the thing is Robes what makes the story more remarkable. Yes, sixteen years old. She retired from her profession at sixteen. This was back in twenty twenty two. Now she's been trying to come back. She had issues with COVID, She had issues with her training and how she was able to train during COVID. She finally comes out of retirement Rodes with a whole new attitude. She says she really did get way down by the pressure of skating from that time you're five to sixteen, you get burnt out.
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Speaker 3: That makes sense.
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Speaker 1: By the sixteen, she's burnt out done. The joy wasn't there, the pressure was there. She says, she wanted to even go hang out with her friends, be a kid, hang out with I think she's got several brothers and sisters. She wanted to go be a kid, and she did. How robes she needs to be studied. It made her appreciate it more and it made her a better skater.
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Speaker 4: I'm still in awe because, look, having watched a lot of Olympics this time around, there are so many lessons we can take from these athletes and apply them to our own lives in so many different ways.
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Speaker 3: But just seeing this young woman at the height.
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Speaker 4: Of her career and certainly the best of the best in the world, be able to go on that ice knowing that any mistake she makes or could make is the.
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Speaker 3: End of her Olympic dream.
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Speaker 4: But if your Olympic dream is Justice Gate and not to meddle, it wouldn't ever be the end. So I don't know how she put it, but I was trying to just take in her wisdom at twenty saying, it doesn't matter because I'm doing what I love and I know we can all say that out loud, but to actually live it and believe it and go through life with that attitude, it doesn't matter what happens as long as I enjoy the ride. And yes, she put in the work and she has the talent and the skill all of that. It's not as if she's just waiting for things to happen. She is making them happen, but she doesn't. She's not basing her joy on the outcome of what she does. That is the key to life, Isn't that? The key to peace? Isn't that the key to happiness?
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Speaker 1: That is everything that every self help author is preaching. Everybody's telling you. Eckhart totally, of Gabby Bernstein, all of them are telling us the same thing.
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Speaker 2: Are they not rolled?
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Speaker 1: When you stop being invested in the outcome, you're living in the moment, and that is the key to happiness, is what we want. But it's really the key to piece. That's what we all want. Okay, fine, read the book, knock yourself out. We can send you copies, We got them all. However, if you don't want to read all that stuff, watch tonight's replay of the Olympic figure skating final. Of the women and don't take your eyes off Alyssa lou all night. How is it possible, Robes. What's possible is she got burnt out, and it seems it happens to us later in life. But she learned something from the age of five to the age of sixteen. That was eleven years of experience. Yes, it happened very early, but don't we all do that. It usually doesn't happen till thirty five forty five. She learned it early, and then she found her joy in her piece and she's excelling.
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Speaker 2: Robes.
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Speaker 1: This young lady has taught the lesson and is living it right in front of us on the biggest stage. You cannot argue with any of her methods.
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Speaker 2: It works. Holy Hell, Quad God. And this young lady, what did he say?
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Speaker 1: Too much pressure? He's worried about the outcome. The eyes that are on me, he said, all the things that ain't.
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Speaker 3: Even come out of my mouth exactly.
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Speaker 4: And think about Amber Glenn, by the way, who was impressive as hell today, by the way, but she even talked about and they were playing Madonna telling her you've got to win gold, bring home the gold.
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Speaker 3: It was all about the gold.
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Speaker 4: If you are singularly focused on an outcome, which by the way, I would assume most Olympic athletes are, that's exactly what you visualize winning the gold. They tell you a lot of athletes who go to therapy, they tell you to visualize winning, visualize the gold. Right, But that also can create a lot of pressure that undoes any of the good you've put in, because now you're thinking, that's all that matters.
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Speaker 3: The outcome is all that matters.
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Speaker 4: So to see and hear someone like Alissa have a completely different way of approaching these games, and then to see what that outcome actually ended up becoming, it's remarkable.
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Speaker 2: Applied to anything.
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Speaker 1: Apply to your driving test, applied to your first date, Apply it to your relationship you got going on right now, Apply to the interview you gotta go do to get a job, apply to anything in the world. And how much better off if you just say you know, I'm going here and just crush it.
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Speaker 2: See what happens.
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Speaker 1: Okay, if it works out fine, the relationship you're in right now, if you stop being invested in the outcome, how much different would you behave?
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Speaker 4: Yes, and look, the input is what you have control over. And that is what she did, and that is what all of us can do. We can control what we put into something. But as long as you don't expect a return or an outcome, you're gonna be happy because you're doing what you love with the person who you do love. Apparently if it's about a relationship, and then you just say, I gave it my all and that makes me happy.
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Speaker 1: And folks, we are going to be talking about Alyssa Loo for a long time, for the rest of Olympic history. And she is having an impact right now, yes, on our hearts, on our minds, but also possibly on our fashion.
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Speaker 2: All right, we continue here.
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Speaker 1: Alyssa Lou just what minutes ago, won the gold medal in the figure skating competition.
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Speaker 2: Rose.
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Speaker 1: This is she is now the darling of the Olympics. There were a bunch of big stories about a bunch of big names. Now she is a big name. Obviously she's a star. But she was a part of a trio, right and I guess a lot of people probably lump them together. But we talk about Lindsey Vaughn, Mikayla Schiffriend, the quad God. There were some bigger individual names, correct, hers was there she has now become the biggest story American story of these Olympics.
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Speaker 3: That's absolutely fair to say.
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Speaker 4: Also because she's just so humble in all of it, just and her joy is so palpable. This wasn't a a razor focused athlete who was there set out solely to win gold, which is what we're used to seeing, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. This is what makes her so unique and stand out. She had that California hey vibe, like you know, Sela Vie and just had this cool chill. She made figure skating cool, like in the same way snowboarders make alpine events cool. I felt like Alyssa Loo makes figure skating like cool in a way that it maybe wasn't before.
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Speaker 2: Well, less uptight doing this, It's okay, Like both can be true. You can. She had a great.
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Speaker 1: Technical score an artistic score because she can handle both. I think robes, there were some of them, some of the skaters. It's not just about the music they choose, but it's energy, and she stepped on that thing. I think Terrylepenske was the one that said it.
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Speaker 2: She brings you.
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Speaker 1: It's like she brings you onto the ice. Like you're down there. She was wonderful today.
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Speaker 4: She skated to Donna Summer, which was amazing. So she's got seventies disco blaring, how could you not possibly have fun? First of all with that, she wears this gold sequined outfit to pair with her Donna Summer disco routine, and it was just fun from start to finish. We were swaying, we were moving, we were it was like watching an incredible performance. I forgot she was skating for gold as she was skating in glimmering Gold.
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Speaker 1: Because she didn't look like the moment was anything other than a practice for her and a good time and fun, and we just had to be there checking it out. It seems impossible rolled and it seems like something well, she's just cut different and whatnot. I think we're all capable of doing what she did. She had to go through the lessons she did very early on.
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Speaker 2: But ropes.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we should look at her as a super freak, right, I mean, she's a super freak as her talent, sure, but she did something mentally today that I thought was remarkable and juxtaposed it with so many of the other stories and athletes in high profiles who admit that this moment got to them to see a woman who has been at every turn saying I don't really care if I win the gold. Obviously she wants it, would love it. But ropes I believed her.
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Speaker 4: I did too when she said it. And when you see her skate, you can't help but believe that. You can tell she's not nervous, she's not under pressure, she's not terrified that she'll fall, none of it. She was just having a And had she fallen, she would have gotten back up with a smile on her face.
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Speaker 3: I have no doubt. But because she wasn't nervous, almost certainly that's why she.
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Speaker 4: Didn't fall, because all of these figure skaters are at a level where they don't have to fall. It's the nerves, it's the adrenaline, it's the pressure that you succumb to in those moments. So if you can really let go of the outcome, and if all of us could do that, just think what we could accomplish. Just think about the relationships we could repair even or just strengthen, because suddenly you're not invested in controlling everything around you, You're just enjoying the riot.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of awesome. Again, a twenty year old taught us all this. She's also teaching us that there's more than one way to wear your hair.
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Speaker 2: It looks one way.
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Speaker 1: And I said today, I only want to see her in gold and black outfits when she because the hair is wild and it's fun, and when it's up you can't really tell the pattern Ropes. She had took it down afterwards, and what would you describe it as? It was like a gold black gold thing.
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Speaker 4: It reminded me of a Davy Crockett hat with a tail, except for his whole Her whole hair is Davy Crockett.
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Speaker 2: The raccoon.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks, yes, that is raccoon stripes.
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Speaker 4: But I was already suggesting that Halloween twenty twenty six, I think we're going to see some Alissa Lou costumes.
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Speaker 3: I think that's probably going to be a fun one.
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Speaker 4: I can already see the wigs in the Halloween pop up stores.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing, Ropes, it works on her, It works well.
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Speaker 3: Completely.
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Speaker 1: And so the quote we use at the top with that language is the language that went out on NBC broadcast. She was coming off the ice, coming to her coach. She hasn't been greeted by anybody yet. And she turns to the camera that's following her she's coming off the ice and says, that's what I'm fucking talking about.
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Speaker 2: And you you, that.
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Speaker 1: Is not the tone, the language, the added to the energy we are used to seeing from our little American darlings on the ice.
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Speaker 4: No, you know, we're always used to seeing these beautiful ballerina, you know, very sweet and demure young women who look, yes as elegant and maybe even quiet and humble. No, this girl is just her California self. Like I said, she reminds me of someone who would be like a skateboarder or a snowboarder, and she just is herself. She's got wait, we learned from Sabine, she's got these piercings that actually go over her teeth.
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Speaker 3: They're called Smiley's.
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Speaker 1: But yes, there, everybody, these might become a new thing. I didn't know when when I first saw it. I thought they were attached to her teeth. I thought she had braces us something attached to teeth.
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Speaker 2: I think we were in the same place.
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Speaker 1: Actually, what that thing is on her teeth, you all, is a hook that's actually pierced through her gun and it hangs down over those teeth and it's called a smiley.
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Speaker 4: So she's super cool and way cooler than me, and I would not be willing to go through that pain if you paint me. But anyway, she's that girl, right. She just does her and you can see it, you can feel it. She's as authentic as they come. And she's not your typical yes, you're right, Gold medal figure skating winner. No, she's not who you would think of typically when you think of someone who is in that category.
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Speaker 3: And I love it.
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Speaker 1: I love that she is this country's representative right now. She is our star. She is the one we are holding up and we should celebrate for what she has gone through. She has come back. Look, we got others we can hold up later, and there are plenty of reasons and we don't need to talk about the disappointments. Everybody we should be proud of them at the Olympics robes, but this young lady has She has robes we talked about. This is those commercials where they say this, we're all on the same team. Yes please. I shudder to think if anyone could try to say anything about this young lady other than she is us. She is exactly what we need right now. And I just love her robes, her diversity, that she's from Oakland, her parents was her backdrop, her dad her background.
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Speaker 2: Her dad was in the stands today. So she's just she's.
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Speaker 1: A diverse kid in a lot of ways, but mature and talented and joyful and all of those things we want to root for right now. And there was some stuff when Amber Glynn went through what she went through. Look, I know it's social media, but people want to attack for this and that and the third, but for Robes, this young lady, I just she's what we need right now.
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Speaker 2: And she is an American superhero.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you wanted to know her background. This is actually really cool. She is the daughter her father emigrated from China. He actually escaped China after the nineteen eighty nine Tienamen Square protests.
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Speaker 3: So she is America.
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Speaker 4: And she was actually born in California via a surrogate mother. So this is she is as modern and as unique and as diverse as this country hopefully is still proud of, because that is what makes us the United.
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Speaker 3: States of America.
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Speaker 1: May I wrote there you go. Is there anybody in this country that doesn't want to claim her? Is there something about her that's not good enough, that's not us enough, that's not American enough, that's not patriotic enough that we won't raise, lift her up and celebrate her. I just she is just special, man, and I am so we want every moment of Did we miss a figure skating moment during the Olympics.
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Speaker 3: We didn't.
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Speaker 4: We were glued, absolutely glued to the television and it's been phenomenal And it was just fun because we know we have had some setbacks in Team USA and certainly the expectations that were placed on so many athletes, So it was really fun to see the athlete who actually had zero expectations on take home gold.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, folks, we appreciate, appreciate you always going along with us. Y'all can tell we hop on we coming in hot sometimes, but we were really lit with this one. Yeah, me and you and Samin been kind of camped out for the week for her winter break watching nothing but Olympics with a wonderful backdrop of a frozen HUDs Hudson River.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's the perfect.
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Speaker 4: This has been one of my favorite Winter Olympics and we still have a little bit more owen. By the way, just want to give a shout out way to go team USA on women's hockey taking home gold again. We were actually simultaneously watching the figure skating while we were cheering on the women in USA hockey, so congrats to them as well, and thank.
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Speaker 1: You Peacock for making all of this available and possible. With the venue feeds, y'all have been great. We have three screens up NonStop. This has been wonderful. But yes, Robes, a day for the ladies who made this probably the biggest day of the Olympics for the Americans agreed And with that, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with us on TJ. Holmes on behalf of my dear Amy Roeboch talk to yus too,