Transition: Remembering Chicago's failed bid for the 2016 Olympics
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What emotions were felt during Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid announcement?
What do we call it? Passionate about Tyson, Beige, and Ben Johnson?
I call it the conjuring. You can call it whatever you want.
It does sound like he's got an exorcist vibe. Right? He's going to go crawling down the steps on his back like a scorpion.
Also, I am crab walking.
Get out of the house! It's like Amityville Horror.
Get out of the house! No! Thanks to everybody who helped with our show. Sean Sears, thanks to helping us with all of the audio from the Combine. Thanks to Ray Diaz, Tyler Biederbaugh, and Brandon Fryer. Thanks to Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, Chris Emma for joining us from the Combine, Marshall Harris, and Mark Rohde. And now we bring in Lawrence Holmes and Matt Spiegel.
Hello, guys. Does Ben Johnson love Tyson Paget more than Caleb Williams? Next. Who'd you guys have on from Indy? Your guy, Chris Emma.
You mean Statehouse? Statehouse! Statehouse Emma! That's our new nickname for Chris, Emma. Talk to me. Well, because Mitch had it in the email. Usually, if you just get the email heading as your name, it means you're fired. You know? Or it means, like, something wonderful is happening. Chris Emma!
That's a very big expression.
Chris Emma! And it was Chris Emma will be in Indianapolis for the Combine and to cover the Statehouse. And I was immediately, that's a nickname right there. Chris Statehouse Emma. And so we are all about it as a show. You don't have to do it if you don't want to, but it's got to be.
He will be expected to perform out there. You know, when we had Emma on, I was talking about, you know, they do this cool women covering the combine, women in media event every single year led by Courtney Cronin from ESPN. And at this event, for the last two years that I have attended, obviously not this year, I'm not in Indy right now. Kevin Warren and George McCaskey are always there just to say hi to everybody, just to show a support for the event. I wonder if they will be there and if there will be anything that will be reported tonight. Interesting. Kevin's been in a lot of events like that.
Hasn't he held events like that?
He has. He also has not been certain places, and it's been welcome that he hasn't been certain places.
Yep. And the feeling about some of those events is very interesting from people who have been to them. Oh, Kevin.
Yo. And he was at the Olympics to see his kids. Which is cool. That's a really good thing.
I think that, yeah, that's incredible to have a great niece make it to the Olympic team as a speed skater.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah.
How did the hosts react to Chicago being eliminated from the Olympics?
Anytime you get the excuse to go to Italy, why not?
My God. Talk about the envy. I mean, well, you have been to one. You've covered one? Two. Two. You've covered? I've only been to one. Which one were you at?
London 2012.
Wow. Yeah. I've never been to Olympics. My folks used to go. They went to Lake Placid. They went to LA in 84. They used to make it like a group thing. But I got to go to one.
Well, they're in L.A. in two years. Hold on.
Didn't we have the Olympics here in Chicago back in 2010, I want to say? We were so close. We were out so fast.
Didn't seem like y'all were so close from what I remember. Man, Marshall, the craziest part about it. infrastructure yeah they're gonna fix the red line laurence the craziest part about it you don't say was as it was happening we were like wait is it it was like the the end of uh of infinity war did we just lose like it was it was like that because it happened so quick feeling it was it happened so quick where they were like chicago we're like so we're out like
We don't know anything else, but Chicago is out. That's what we want to do now. Have a great day, everybody.
It was amazing because we were all on the air going, well, wait, what just happened here?
I wasn't on the air. I was at Daily Plaza with Tributosaurus. We had been hired to play the event. Oh, no. We were on stage, 10-piece band. We had three different 20-minute sets programmed and ready to go, carefully chosen celebratory music. And we played our first set, and then we were out. And the giant crowd in attendance went from raucous to complete deathly silence.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What emotions were felt during Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid announcement?
0:01–2:32
2
How did the hosts react to Chicago being eliminated from the Olympics?
2:32–4:59
3
What were the implications of Chicago's failed Olympic bid on local infrastructure?
4:59–8:33
4
How did the Olympic bid affect real estate in Chicago?
8:33–12:15
5
What were the key players involved in the Chicago Olympic bid?
12:15–14:24
6
How did the hosts reflect on their personal experiences during the bid announcement?
14:24–17:27
7
What lessons can be learned from Chicago's Olympic bid failure?
17:27–20:15
8
What are the future prospects for Chicago in hosting major events?
20:15–21:48
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