Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Olympic curling silver medalist working on a furtherance of curling back away from the 10 days where we all tune into it. Welcome to Bloomberg Surveillance. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. I've got to do this because it was inflicted upon me as a child.
So in the 92-9 region of Boston, if you fancy, there's the Wellesley Country Club, Braeburn, the Weston Golf Club, and they sort of coalesced around a curling hunk of ice called Broomstones. Did you go there as a little kid? Were you part of that whole scene? Absolutely. Broomstones Curling Club was like my second home. My whole family curled.
I have an older brother that curled, and I followed in his footsteps. My parents were so involved with the youth curling program there. I was known to be running up and down the stairs, playing pool, throwing so many stones on the ice. Did you ever stub your toe on that damn stone? I mean, was the stone laying around at home, and you ran over it? No, no, no.
Pretty much just grew up sliding down the sheet of ice. Since you're five years old, you were curling. Five years old. I didn't think a five-year-old could curl. I know. Well, they have these smaller stones that weigh like half the size. So they're stones about 44 pounds.
They have like these little rocks that they call them that are made for younger curlers, for kids that can't slide a 40-pound stone down the sheet of ice. What changed with this Olympics in terms of a sport that we focus on every four years to, hey, this is for real?
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Chapter 2: How did Korey Dropkin get involved in curling?
What's the catalyst right now out of that wonderful Olympic coverage? I think it's the energy that you see from the sport, from all the athletes. You know, we love a sport where, you know, the crowd's going wild and cheering big.
You know, I think traditionally it used to be known as, you know, a bit of a quiet, you know, more of like a silent please type of sport where, you know, it's all about etiquette and is a sport of etiquette. And, you know, instead of the, you know, the respective, you cheers on made shots and then be silent for the next opponent to throw.
We want those cheers to vibrate through the stadium and that's what we saw in Italy. The Italian crowd showing up, our American crowd, every country showing up for their own and the energy that the athletes were giving off. Alexis Kostoffer is with Corey Dropkin. He has a silver medal in studios with us. That's a hunk of metal. It's around his neck in case you guys can't see. May I feel it?
Absolutely. I've never been this close to a, oh my gosh, that's heavy. All right. That's the real deal. And hopefully it'll last because there's stories like they go on three, four, five years and they fall apart. Or they've been falling off the ribbon or something. Silver, by the way, at $86 right now, up $7,000. Oh, there it goes. Perfect. We got that piece in there. Alexis, please.
He's going to hang on to his silver. So, I mean, undoubtedly, you know, curling's having its moment. But in what ways? Like, are you seeing and hearing from, like, young people here in the U.S.? Are they going like, yeah, I want to do that? Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I think every four years, it's natural that I mean, the world loves watching curling, you know, we just need to be able to give the world what they want to watch more often. And I would want to see, especially in the US curling exposed a little bit more, we need it more on an annual basis. And that's part of why Rock League is here and starting in April.
You know, but I've heard so many curling communities having, you know, big open houses, new kids, adults trying to come in and learn how to But you're up in Duluth right now. Yeah, you bet. Well, it's still winter. Okay. So you're up in Duluth and you want to do Rock League. Do you have any media into it? Is there a TV structure? That's what you need to get it to the next level. Yes.
It says Apple TV. I mean, you know, it says dead TV. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I know they've got a network for sure in Canada. I know they're working on the U.S. It sounds like there was talks about potentially securing something. But hopefully we're able to get that in that way that everyone around the U.S. can watch. April 6th to 12th in Toronto is where Rock League is happening.
It's the inaugural first season. It's going to be seven days long. How many teams? There's six franchises, and the beautiful thing is that it's mixed gender. So on each franchise, there's ten athletes, five male and five female. And so really you get the best in the world that are playing head-in-head. What are you like in a bar with the games, like a pool table or some of those games?
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Chapter 3: What factors contributed to the rise in popularity of curling?
I mean, Swedish curler, Oscar Erickson, you know, called them out on it. And I'd say, you know, they probably reacted a little bit over the board, which is why everything went pretty viral. There was cussing going on and curling, which doesn't happen often. Yeah, you don't see it very often. You know, it's also a big stage. You know, we're talking about the Olympics. The emotions are high.
You know, you had, you know, essentially a legend of the sport who's being called out. And, you know, he overreacted for sure. He was in a fracture that as, you know, traveling and basketball, some people get called on it. Some people don't. And he got called on it. Where do you keep the medal when you're not wearing it?
Either close by to me or up high on a shelf at home so my cats can't get to it. Not under the pillow, not under the mattress. Okay, when you get the Clorox free and clear out on the kitchen floor, you're like demanding you do the scrubbing of the kitchen floor. If you were my son, I'd be asking you to do it. I really would, Corey. Yeah.
You know, I'm very good at cleaning the kitchen floors, for sure. Yeah, you can ask my fiance. Well, thank you so much. This has been just a joy. It is a real entrepreneurial spirit, folks. Rock League, you're going to see it, as Corey mentions, out of Toronto here as they develop our interest in curling after our complete addictive fixture. How come the games are so long?
Oh, that's a good question. Right now, the men's and women's four-person games are 10 ends, and that takes about two and a half hours. Are you going to get a pitch clock? I know they should. I think what we need to see is the game shortened a little bit, and you're going to see that in Rock League, too, where the games will be shortened.
The mixed doubles games are about an hour and a half, which in my mind is perfect. People love watching mixed doubles. Corey, thank you so much. Out of Wayland, Massachusetts, out of Southboro as well, and of course now up in Duluth, Minnesota, Mr. Dropkin is an Olympic silver medalist.
the dow right now negative 600 we've got to get back to these markets and all the the news flow changing here literally by the the 15 minutes is how i would uh put it right now i'm going to go to the major bloomberg feed here which we have in iran that's actually a little bit stable right now and alexis if i bring it over to top live where they're working feverishly yes out of dubai out of london out of dublin uh today uh is uh well
Right now, this is just a general statement from our Matthew Griffin on the stock market as well. And again, there's a weight to the tape, negative 630. Yeah, and Iran's new leader coming out with these statements that are moving the market for the first time since the war. Here's what I want. This is Patrick Sykes. He's out of Cambridge and is in Istanbul. We've had him on the show.
He's absolutely brilliant. No other way to put it. And Patrick Sykes making clear that the message itself was defiant. Iran will continue to attack the Gulf and keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. So we'll have to see that as well. Did you steal his medal? Well, I thought maybe you'd want to hold the medal. Oh, to hold the medal? Yeah. Isn't that heavier than you'd expect? Yeah. The silver medal?
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