Mike Tirico
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5 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 16 Jul
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Because of COVID, there were no fans. And you guys were mentioning this. Somebody mentioned it before. You work your whole life to make the Olympics. It's four years of training for a minute, two minutes, whatever it ends up being for some of the athletes. You want your family there. And none of the families could go to Tokyo or to Beijing to the last summer and winter games.
So that is one of the things that I am more excited about.
This will be the first time that fans are in the stands at the Olympics since February of 2018. So six years and about five months or six months.
Well, the next Winter Olympics are in Milan and Cortina, Italy in 2026. And then L.A.
And that's why, to what Will was just saying, that's why I think this is a big Games for the Olympic movement. And it's in a great place in Paris because, as you mentioned, the backgrounds – Paris is just such an aspirational city – But L.A. 2028, we haven't had a Summer Olympics here since Atlanta back in the late 90s. And we haven't had the Olympics in the U.S. since Salt Lake in 2002.
So if you're 30, right, so 26 years between Olympics in the U.S., if you're 30, you don't ever remember the Olympics being contested in America.
So now you're 30 or under, Alfie.
You want to host? Go ahead.
No way. No way.
Oh, no, no. Snoop is, it's not just like Snoop's going to show up for once. Snoop is part of our coverage. And he is, he is all in on this, man.
No, no, I wish it was. So we'll go back a few years ago to the last summer games. And we're trying to, you know, we have Peacock as part of the NBC family. It's our streaming service. So we're trying to figure out what shows can we do Olympic related on Peacock. So Kevin Hart and Snoop did Olympic highlights, their version of Olympic highlights. They did like a couple of nights during the games.
And Snoop, it's a great YouTube clip of Snoop and the equestrian. It's like a crip walk, right? So, you know, that's where the relationship started. Then the conversations continued. And he's going to be part of it. So here's the deal. Like the Olympics are going to happen live. We used to hold events live. and just say, hey, we'll show tea at night, right? That doesn't happen anymore.
Everybody's got a phone. They can find out what happens. So everything's going to be live during the day. It's a six-hour time difference. Yes, thank God. It's going to be great. So at night, you're going to be shown everything that happens. So we're going to try to do a little bit of the storytelling, a little bit of the behind the scenes, give you a little bit of flavor of Paris.
And who better to snoop around Paris than Snoop?
That's really cool. Is the family going to go with you? My family's going to come. They've been denied the last two Olympics, which is kind of a bummer. It's the fourth time that I'm the primetime host, and they haven't been able to come to any of them. So they're going to come over for a week or so and get to it. I won't see them, but they'll have a great time.
And they'll have a great time because they won't see me, actually.
It's a great question. Be together at our lake house in Michigan now because we're away so much with my travel. We have kids who've graduated college, just finished wrapping up their college careers.
Yeah, we're old people now. So just, you know, and a lot of people who are listening who have older kids, like when your kids become your friends too. Yeah.
yeah it's so cool so so that that is like i can't wait to do that and i'm excited they're going to get a chance to do some of this they come to some of the football games from time to time and uh you know you get a chance to be around it and they they love sports they both played sports in in high school and we're big sports fans we're in a sports house it's always the topic of conversation a game's always on so they're all in on it and they love it how did you get to to michigan
Yeah, she was an all-state softball and basketball player in Michigan. And we moved back near her family back in the late 90s and been here for a long time. It's funny because she asked me a few years ago, do you consider yourself a Northeasterner being born in the Northeastern school? I'm like, nah, I'm a Midwest guy. I love living, especially doing what I do. I love not living on either coast.
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