Mike Tirico
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1,317 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 16 Jul
Mike Tirico’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's good to be part of the flyover world.
So in the Olympics, I don't call events. I'm hosting, so I just do the daytime and then the primetime hosting. And I love... I love when athletes win medals and they come to sit on the couch with their medals on.
Because that's the moment they dream of, right? And not necessarily sitting with me, but just being there and being interviewed.
Yeah, the winter fireplace. The summer this year would be the Eiffel Tower in the background. And they just got this heavy medal around their neck and they're just sitting there. And I've loved that. Every time I see an Olympic athlete and get a chance to talk to them or interview them, I always end it with like, Hey, I hope I get to interview you with a medal around your neck, right?
No matter what color medal it is. And it's just so... That's like one of the terms that translates everywhere. You can be in a village in Africa. You can be in Australia. You can be anywhere. Olympian translates. And the coolest part of that opening ceremony, which you mentioned before, is going to go down the River Seine with a boat parade of the athletes. It's going to be very different.
Hopefully it'll be spectacular. So cool.
For most of the athletes, that's their Olympic moment, right? Because they don't get on the podium and sing their anthem. Only about 350 or a little bit less than that win gold medals. So their moment is being in the opening ceremony with all the best athletes in the world who made it there. I get a little melancholy and a little sappy about it, but it's so dang cool.
That I haven't interviewed?
No, that's a really good question. I'd like to talk to Babe Ruth.
I'd like to talk to Babe Ruth because like, you know, here a hundred years ago, you had no idea people would still be talking about you. There'd be a candy bar named after you.
What do you think of Ohtani, babe? With AI, we could probably do that.
Did Ty Cobb actually spike you, babe, when he slid into it? Yes, he did.
But think about it. It's 100 years later. You say Babe Ruth, everybody knows, right? Yeah, yeah. And that's the era before any of sports in its popularity level existed.
I am. Massive. I would say, and we've gone a couple of times, I would say if you had to ask me what's the place you've been as an American that has impacted you, it's going to Normandy. And here we are, 80 years of D-Day, that anniversary in June.
And man, when you sit there and see and read and hear the stories, and when you sit there and look at that cemetery with the white churches and the hill, it's one of the most powerful things that I've ever done. And every time I think of France, and we went to do a little pre-Olympic story a few months ago, we went down to Normandy just to go back. It was the third time I had a chance to be there.
And it is the most powerful thing. Anybody who's listening, if you ever are blessed enough to be in France, you have a chance to go. As an American, you need to go.
This was an honor, guys. Thank you. Keep making us laugh, will you please? Thanks, guys.
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