62 - Intermediate English - Olympics 2024 - We discuss Americans Simone Biles, Ilona Maher, sprinter Steven Sobino, and boxer Imane Khelif - Enseñamos inglés mientras hablamos de nuestras perspectivas del momento actual en los Juegos Olímpicos en Paris

  Welcome to Listen, Smile, and No Te Rindas. Este es un podcast para hispanohablantes que quieren mejorar su comprensión auditiva del inglés de los Estados Unidos. Somos dos hermanos estadounidenses con raíces mexicanas.  Soy Gabo, o Gabe, aquí con mi hermano mayor, Goyo, o Greg.  Greetings, everyone.  On occasion, we'd like to pick a topic that is kind of of the moment in the Spanish speaking world and discuss it mostly in English.

And, of course, right now The big topic is the Olympics in Paris. 

So during the conversations that we have on these types of episodes, we will try to shed light on any references or expressions that we use. To help you with your English.  Hey, Greg, what's, uh, what's it mean to shed light on something?  Oh, Gabe, I'm so glad you asked. Shed light on something means iluminar o aclarar. 

And the word shed, by itself, means that something is coming off or falling off of something else. As in a snake. Well, shed its skin  or a dog will shed its fur in the summertime  or if you have a dog like mine, your dog sheds for whether it's summertime or fall or basically all the time. She's a, is that true?

Oh yeah. I don't own, I don't own dogs. So yeah, she's, she's a fur factory.  Okay. Just sheds all the time. All right. Thank you for shedding light on that.  You're, you're welcome. Um, well today we wanted to talk about the Olympics. They are getting going in Paris and which is very exciting and everybody I know is watching them and um, I'm trying to stay caught up. 

Okay. Well, I'm excited to talk about that. We're, we're going to talk, um, at first I believe about some general Olympic things that are  not necessarily American and then we're going to kind of transition into two American, um, Olympians. Um, and we'll, we'll see if you can follow along the conversation. Um, we are not sheltering, uh, as we would say in English, we are not, um, Speaking slowly in this episode or trying to pause.

We want you to hear how we talk to each other so that you can kind of test yourself. You've been listening to our other episodes. Now see if you can follow along in this type of episode.  If you like to listen to our episodes, if you use Android. 

Well, I've been, uh, trying to follow a couple of, sort of interesting and, uh, some somewhat sad stories, uh, in the Olympics. Um.  The, the first, uh, is about a young man from Mozambique, uh, which is a country in East Africa. Um, his name, uh, is Steven Sabino and, uh, Steven Sabino is still in high school. Uh, wow.

And, um, he's, uh, but he's been training, uh, for the Olympics as a, as a Olympic sprinter. Um, and his specialty was the hundred meters. Um, and. As he and the other athletes were at the starting line,  he says he heard a bang.  He heard a sound that sounded like the starter pistol, uh, and he, he took off early and did what they call a false start. 

And, um,  Aren't you? Are you allowed one of those or two of those? How many false starts can you have? They, they used to allow those and they found that they were slowing down, uh, the television network coverage. Oh yeah. So they now have a zero tolerance. So if you false start once you're, you're out. So he, he was ejected.

Um, so he flew all the way to Paris and was not permitted to compete. So. He was very emotional, understandably. When you watch the replay, can you detect any sort of pop sound, or can you understand why he false started?  Um, I, I couldn't hear one, but again, there, there was, there are other events going on. Ah, okay.

And he tried to plead his case, uh, and he tried to make a, make a, an argument that, you know, he, he didn't do it, uh, to try to cheat. He literally thought he, he, he legitimately thought he heard a bang. And that actually a runner from great Britain was also disqualified in the same race, uh, because in the next heat, heat, you know, the next, when they reset, he false started.

So, um, obviously something was going on, but, uh, apparently. Slow starters learned that they could kind of try to anticipate the starting pistol and get off a bit early. Um, and there were basically no consequences for trying it. Um, and now, now the consequences are very severe. Yeah, we would say they are draconian.

They are draconian. They are, uh, zero patience or tolerance or flexibility.  You go from. One to zero in one try. Wow.  Yeah. So I felt, felt really bad, uh, for him. Um, just because, you know, he, he was, he was studying, uh, you know, for school and trying to train. Um, and, Uh, so it, you know, it's just a situation where, um, I  felt bad for the guy.

Yeah. And you said there was another one where you were, had like a sadness?  Yeah. There are apparently two boxers right now. Um, that, uh,  the one from Algeria, uh, a lady, uh, named Imani Kif, and then one from, uh, Taiwan, uh, named Lynn ing. Um.  And they, because they, they both tested positive for having testosterone in their system.

So, um, they, uh, they were recently reaffirmed by the Olympic committee just very recently that they are indeed females, indeed women, uh, but they're both boxers. Um, And, uh, the, the Algerian boxer  apparently hits really hard, uh, because in the first round of her, uh, bout with, um, with an Italian boxer, uh, named Angela Carini, um, She just hit her with a couple of jabs in the nose and Karini, uh, raised her hand to stop and she went over and told the coach that she was just hit too hard and her nose hurt too much.

And he tried to encourage her to at least go to the end of the round and then decide. And, um, The Algerian boxer hit her again, and she, she stopped the fight. Basically, she threw in her own towels. We gave up, um, and if I may say I, because I run our Twitter page, um, I watched this happen and unfold in the aftermath on Twitter.

And, um, just all kinds of mythology and, and stereotypes and lies immediately jumped out of, uh, of everywhere about this Algerian boxer.  Right. They, you know, everybody was saying that this was secretly a man and, you know, the thing that was striking to me and looking at them because they were forced to stand side by side for a kind of an uncomfortably long period of time.

time while the judges figured out how they wanted to deal with this. Um, and it just occurred to me that they were shaped almost exactly like, um, their, their bodies looked like, you know, body duplicates of each other. Um, you know, neither of them looked, the Algerians taller. Yeah, right. She was taller, but. 

But neither of them looked particularly masculine. They, neither of them looked anything like the way a mailboxer, but on Twitter, I'll tell you on Twitter, they were finding photographs of the Algerian.  Uh, and I don't know if it was Photoshop or, you know, I have no idea. I did not research it, but. Uh, they were particularly trying to find photos of her with short hair so that, uh, you know, as if to say, see, um, back when he was a guy, right, he, he had short hair and, um, other people pointed out on tick tock that, um, in Algeria, if, um, if, if you're transgender, you know, that's against the law.

So there could be serious consequences, uh, for that. So, you know, this is just. It was very hurtful, uh, in the minds of those that I was watching on TikTok,  you know, that this political statement, you know, people tried to take a stand on this other issue that had nothing to do with the Olympics or boxing. 

Right. I felt like it was really taking away from her ability, uh, to box. And, uh, but again, it is a very, uh, it's very much a, uh, Um, politically charged topic right now and it's, um, it sort of has replaced abortion, um, as the number one flag, uh, you know, but between, uh, sort of two, the, the two sides, at least in the United States, um, the, the two major political sides.

So, um, it was, it was very sad to me to see that happen, but I was very pleased to see the Olympic committee do something quick.  reaffirm that both of these boxers are women and that they need to be allowed to compete. Okay.  Well, thank you for talking about those two things. Let's move on. Let's move on to Simone Biles.

Now,  as you're listening to this part of the episode, I would like you to, um,  I'm going to try to talk about some things about Simone Biles that will deal with both time and measurements because those things can be cultural. Of course, um, the metric system is, is cultural because we don't use the metric system very much in our country.

So I want you to feel In your own culture,  what some of these measurements mean, and let's just start off with an easy one. Simone Biles has been participating in Olympic level gymnastics since 2011.  So she is not a recent entry to, um, to the Olympics, but she's of a certain generation. And I think Gabe, they call her A member of the fantastic five or the fantastic four, something like that.

Um, and I have a reason for bringing that up  next. I want to talk about her size because she's four foot eight inches tall.  Now if you, if you use meters and centimeters in your mind, saying someone is four foot eight inches tall means very little to you. So I will tell you that four foot eight inches means that she is just under 1.

5 meters. She's just under 1. 5 meters.  And if you say that to someone in, in the United States as four foot eight inches, your immediate reaction is kind of like what Gabe did is kind of like a, wow, like, Oh,  small short. So that's a very short height. And I think, um, a lot of gymnasts are small because that lowers their center of gravity.

Um, I know for example, in football at Leonel Messi is, is, uh, is rather short in stature and it helps him, um, uh, You know, weave around defenders. So it makes sense to me. Now I'm just one inch under what all women say they like on dating apps  from, from what I understand, not that I'm dating or looking to date, but this is what they say in on tick tock that, um, you know, you need to be six foot or taller.

So I'm five foot 11. Okay. So I'm a, I'm a rather, I'm on the tallish side. But just so you hear what that means in American English, I'm just under 1. 8 meters. So I am 0. 3 meters or roughly one foot and something taller than Simone Biles. Um, that is a lot. That's a lot.  Now, um, What I really appreciate about Simone Biles is that,  Gabe, first of all, she won four gold medals, uh, this year individually, and I don't know a lot about gymnastics.

I'm not a follower of gymnastics, but  when you look at A history of who's been decorated by how many medals  as an American. She's by far the most successful it's ever been. When they, when they compare her, they have to go back to like what we would call the iron curtain countries or, um, you know, Eastern block, uh, countries to find someone who's been as, as successful as she has been.

And it was a long time ago. It was like, 25, 35 years ago or more. So she is,  uh, a sensation. She is unusual.  But what I would like to talk about is how she has changed the national dialogue in our country  in a way that I think is very beneficial. You see, in 2021, you may remember Ollantes that in 2020, I believe the Olympics were in Tokyo and COVID came about in about March of that year.

Mm hmm. So they had to. They had to delay the Olympics until 2021, which, you know, you can imagine as a, as an athlete, you know, you're training, training, you're trying to hit exactly your peak performance by a certain time. And then they like, Nope, you're not going.  And um, we have a little history of that in this country because in 1980, uh, we had We boycotted the Olympics because they were in the Soviet Union and Jimmy Carter, uh, the president at the time pulled the athletes.

So there's already this cultural memory of the strain of giving everything you got, right? Giving all your all and then being told, Oh, but nevermind. It's, it's not happening. So getting to go to the Olympics in 2021 was like a big,  like a big sigh of relief. We would say in English, there was a big sigh of relief at the time. 

And then after participating for a little while, Simone Biles, who had, uh, done very well in 2016,  she has to drop out and it's not because she's injured. It's because of something going on in her mind. She had something called the twisties.  Apparently that's a feeling that you have when you're doing twisting motions and gymnastics and you know, it's mental.

It's not physical.  And I'd like to give our listeners a little bit of context about that.  You see  in the United States, uh, especially coming from football,  there is a huge mythology around fighting through the pain. You know, you just, you, you, you have to try to win no matter what. I think that's been a very American idea, especially when we were boys.

You know, if you  hurt on the, on the ball field, when you were practicing something in, in middle school or high school, your coach would say, You know, you got to fight through the pain. You got, you, you can play hurt. Sometimes they would say, no, not always. They had a line they would draw. Like if, obviously if you'd, um, sprained something or broken something, they're not going to put you back in the game.

But  toughness was defined by  Um, you know, can you keep, can you keep on going even though you're hurting somewhere? And this was exemplified. Exemplified means it was the greatest example. This was exemplified in 1996  when Carrie Strug,  who is another gymnast, probably also four foot, eight inches, very small young lady.

Um, Yeah. Was doing what they call vaulting,  where they run down a runway and then they jump and flip and they have to spin in the air and then land.  She hurt herself on her penultimate jump, on her second to last jump.  And Gabe, do you remember Bella Corolli in this? Do you remember the photo of him carrying her?

Because she, she did the run again.  And landed on one foot because she had hurt her other foot and winced in pain. Winced means you go with your face and, you know, you squint your eyes. It really hurts.  And she, you know, she landed on the one foot and she turned and signal to the crowd and gave, then she fell down and Bella Caroli later on carries her to, to the metal ceremony.

And to me, There was just no question at the time, uh, she, you know, she's got to do the next run, right? That's, that's what Americans do. We fight through the pain and you know, she, she, um, she was heroified. She was put on Wheaties boxes and put on television shows. It was a huge deal at the time. And then Simone Biles comes on, uh, Simone Biles comes along many years later and says, you know what? 

This is not worth it.  Uh, I'm going to, I'm going to protect my body or I'm going to protect, um, my mental health. Um, and I'm going to protect myself. It's not the most important thing just to win and then somehow. You know, be damaged from that forever. And I think that was a very healthy thing for our country that, um, mental health, especially after COVID, when so many of us were mentally off because of the confinement and the, the uncertainty,  you know, that was, that was a big deal. 

Well, and there was huge pressure. Uh, I remember there was a lot of pressure on her to, you know, how, how can you just not compete and still be physically, you know, you're not, you don't have any sprains or broken bones, you know, what, what is this? You know, but if you, if you think about it, what, what she was describing was this feeling of uncertainty while you're in the air, um, And, you know, I was watching her on the balance beam.

The balance beam to me is the one that is the most terrifying. Oh my gosh. Yes. Horrible. And it, and it just, the balance beam is this long, you know, basically like a long board that they're standing on and it's, you know, it's suspended off the ground and the potential to injure yourself is just astronomical because it's just very high because you're, you're I mean, just walking, just like if I just had to walk across the balance beam, I would, I could, I would fall off and I could potentially hurt myself if I fell and hit that beam.

But they're doing insane things there. She was flipping, uh, and landing, uh, she was jumping and doing the splits and, uh, you know, she lost her balance, uh, a couple of times and was able to write herself to bring herself back on balance.  Um, as a vet, they said it was a very veteran way of doing it. In other words, someone who had a lot of experience, but  you know, now they're calling her the goat, uh, which is  the G O a T the greatest of all time.

So not the cabra, but the, in the sense that she's the, she's the greatest of all time. And it really makes her. Listening to herself, listening to her mental health needs look really smart because instead of her giving into the pressure  in 2021 and potentially really injuring herself, um, she came back and, and, and won best all around. 

If you'd like to hear the rest of this episode, visit www. patreon. com slash no te rindas podcast to see our levels of patronage  and Gabe, you, you just nailed it  perfectly.  I agree with you 100 percent because by focusing on her mental health in 2021  and showing us that preserving the self.  Preserving the self, excuse me, is more important than the sacrifice, uh, for one's country in this case. 

Um,  it, the narrative would have been very, very different in, in 2024 if she had not even made the team or if she was seen, uh, you know, sitting on the couch eating popcorn, you know, having retired, but no, she comes back and does even better. Like you said, she. Um, she really changed the narrative that if you protect yourself, you fight another day, right?

You can come back later. And again, after, um, the nineties, I think that's an incredibly important message. And I think that people of her generation, which is to say, um, the ones below you and me, the, the millennials, the, um, the gin alphas, what's that, what's another one that they have. It's the gen alphas are the little kid, the middle school kids and high school kids now.

And then there's the millennials. And who's, who's between those Gabe, do you remember Gen Z, right? Oh, Gen Z. Yeah. So the Gen Z years, um, you know, they, when you listen to them, talk to each other on social media,  they are about preserving the self. They're about protecting the self. They're not saying, I'm going to.

I'm going to do everything I can for my boss and I'm going to show them that I'm, I'm the, uh, you know, I'm the goat in the office and I'm going to give lots of sacrifices so that I get the promotion.  You don't hear that kind of talk anymore. There's, there's a different attitude. And frankly, in 1996, when Carrie Strug, you know, did that leap.

Do you remember those posters, Gabe, that used to be on the wall about, commitment and motivation. And they'd have pictures of mountains and sacrifice. And they'd have snow. And I mean, there was a, there was a store in the mall where I lived where you could just go and buy motivation crap like that. You know, just, uh, if you, if you want to.

Deny yourself immediate pleasure and give up something so that you have a better future.  Come and buy something in our store. I just thought that was incredible. So what's a, you used a great word there. Like it's like chaffa, right? It was like you use the word crap. Crap. Yeah. So crap is, um, crap is something that we use.

Um, it can be a euphemism for, for. Poop. Um, but it can also just be a euphemism for, for trash, uh, or, or things that are in disarray. He left his crap all over the counter. That's right. I mean, he, that would, that would mean he left, you know, his stuff. He left his things, his pertinences, his belongings. Yeah.

But this store just sold crap related to motivation. And I very Clearly in the nineties, remember seeing those posters up in, in the office. And, you know, when, when you and I were young people working, you know, we certainly didn't talk about anxiety. Um, you talked about, you know, what sacrifices you were going to make goals.

Yeah. Yeah. Um, And five year plan, but my team members that are in their twenties talk about anxiety every day. Um, and it, it's certainly one of the things, you know, one of the things that I try to do every day is help them find ways to lower their anxiety. Um, so think things really have changed, uh, in, in that way.

Um, We, you know, we, we don't, we just didn't talk about it. We didn't say, I'm feeling anxious.  We just said, I'm fine. And then I remember the expression, suck it up buttercup, suck it up buttercup. And that meant, you know,  um, Guantanamera in Mexican Spanish, right? Or Guantanamera,  excuse me. Uh, you know, you have to put up with it.

You have to tolerate, uh, you have to, uh, keep on going. So I'm glad that.  You know, the people that are in this working generation now that are the future of our workforce are trying to protect themselves because, um, I think that's important. And, you know, what Simone, what Simone Biles teaches us is that you can come back from that and actually do even better. 

All right. I have one more topic about Simone Biles before we talk about  Alana Mayer. Um, and that is Gabe, the controversy surrounding her courtship with Jonathan Owens. Now, Simone Biles, after she left, uh, the Olympics in 2021, she decided to focus on her own life. And one of the things that she did was she started dating.

Someone that lived in her area at the time, Houston, and she eventually married him.  And  again, it goes back to this idea of you pay this incredible price to be a gymnast or to be excellent.  And Gabe, she had dated one time, not dated somebody one time, she had gone on one date by the time she was 20 years old.

Can you believe that?  Yeah, I've always read that Olympic athletes just you don't get to have a social life and that particularly gymnasts, um, and ice skaters, I've, I've always heard they tend to be very socially awkward  because they don't, They just, they're not doing the social things that everybody else is doing that we take for granted, that we don't really think about, um, because they are training. 

Yeah. It would be almost like having the isolation of COVID, which really affected the socialization skills of my students because my students, you know, passed through COVID and came back very awkward except for eight or nine years, right? It takes a long time to, uh, your whole. Formative years, you're exercising and training instead of making mistakes socially. 

And so  she was public on Instagram, I guess, and other things when she was going through this period of her life and she let it be known.  Uh, that she had, you know, identified someone, this guy, Jonathan Owens, that she was interested in and that she drove to him  for 45 minutes. They lived, you know, some distance apart.

So she drove to him 45 minutes  and she pursued him in, uh, private messages and things like that.  And this.  tortured this tormented, this offended women, uh, all over Instagram and other social media, because what they saw was we have this woman who's not been taught the ins and outs of social dynamics and the social dynamics of dating.

And she's making all these mistakes. And she's giving this other guy, uh, the counterpart, Jonathan Owens, a tremendous advantage over her. And She's amazing, right? It would be to me like if, um, because Jonathan Owens would say, uh, in interviews, at least in one interview, he said, oh, she's not the catch. I'm the catch.

Now, what is the catch? What does that mean? I'm the catch. Um, when somebody is a catch or the catch, it just means they're the, they're the, if some, if I was to say, oh, she would be a real catch, that would mean that, She's very desirable and she has a lot to offer, uh, as a potential partner or potential mate.

So he was saying, I'm, I'm the one that is the most desirable of the two of us. That's right. And, and, you know, who comes to mind for me is, is Prince Charles. Who's now King Charles. He married someone named Camilla Parker Bowles,  who, um, was not. the level of fame or royalty that he was and, and he fell in love with her and married her. 

And if she had said in an interview, you know, I'm the catch that to me, that would be just as, as ridiculous because he's the King of England. Simone Biles is the King of the world, right? She's the queen of gymnastics.  How dare you say I'm the catch, you know? And, and she smiled and looked at him in the interview and, you know, like, Oh, we would say she was kind of doe eyed.

She looked like the eyes of a deer.  Oh, isn't he cute.  And, you know, Millions of us are looking at that going, you know, that that's not fair. He needs to be more respectful of you.  Um, and the thing is, who is Jonathan Owens, Gabe, he's a professional athlete like she is, but he's mostly been on practice squads, which is to say he has not played a lot of minutes on the field because there are better players than he is.

Um, Who are beating him out for those positions on the field and he doesn't stay with one team very long What what do you know about jonathan owens? Yeah, he he's kind of bounced around and he was on the he was on the texans in houston. He was on the green bay packers um where he he got his most of his playing time, but it was a very strange thing because they would They would let him play one week  And then they would put him back on the practice squad for a week and then they would let him play for a week.

And, and this is typical when a team is just what they call thin at a position, which means they don't, they don't have enough players at that position. So if you're having to pull people off the practice squad, um, that means, you know, the practice squad's job is just to pretend to be the other team to help the actual first team get.

Get ready for a game. So he's, um, now he, he did, did just sign a contract with the Chicago bears, you know, and I think his last contract was over a million dollars. So, you know, he's, he's making certainly a lot of money, um, a lot more money than we are,  but, um, you know, he's a, he's a safety, uh, so he's a defensive player, um, that has to be fast and it's sort of the last line of defense.

So, um, But he, you know, he could turn out to be a really great football player, but at this point, uh, Simone Biles is, um, basically the equivalent of Tom Brady, right. Um, with, you know, so many Superbowl rings. So, um, you're right. There is an imbalance, but she obviously saw something she wanted and she went after it and, you know, I kind of liked that.

She didn't.  follow these rules. Um, and obviously his confidence, it's going to give you confidence when someone like Simone Biles is coming after you. Sure. Um, but she, you know, it would give me confidence  and, uh, and confidence is attractive, which is why I'm not attractive to women at all. Stop it. 

All right, well, we're going to move on now to our final, uh, topic, which is, uh,  Alana Mayer. Now, Gabe, have you heard of this woman, Alana Mayer?  Um, she's a rugby player, but I don't know much about her. Okay, well I'm so excited to tell you about her because, um, it's just so much fun, uh, to talk about her. Yes, he's correct.

She plays rugby. I think they call it rugby union rules. And they just won the bronze medal. Uh, the americans did in rugby, uh, in the olympics. So in addition to her being, uh, you know, a famous face because of reasons that I will explain,  um, she also is, um, she also is a legitimately great athlete.  So In 2021, I guess, in Japan, she started sending Instagram messages during the Olympics so that people could see what it was like in Tokyo and inside what they call the Olympic village in English, the Olympic village. 

And she is.  She has a special kind of personality, which I'm going to try to explain. I don't know that I can do it very well, but  she has over 2 million followers, uh, from what I checked this morning, uh, on Instagram and she  does a couple of things really well and uses the tools that she has really, really well.

So first I would say  that she's funny. She's funny. She is, um,  you know, she's not afraid to look something other than poised and confident. For example, today, now remember she plays rugby Gabe, so she's going to be carrying a rugby football, which is in English about the size of a hornet's nest. If you know what a hornet's nest is.

And today on her Instagram page, she was holding an enormous croissant.  The size of a rugby football game. And she, you know, she's trying to devour it. She's like biting into it like  it's delicious. And that's funny. I mean, that's just cute to me.  And to me because she's in the land of, she's in the capital, the bread capital of the world.

It makes sense.  And if she's, if she's done, you know, she can finally eat something and have some carbs. Yeah. And that's the other thing that that's true is that there's all these layers of meaning to just her eating a croissant. First of all, yeah, she's an athlete, so she needs carbs, right? She needs fuel. 

But secondly, she's a girl. Yeah. Um, and girls aren't supposed to eat, right? Girls are supposed to say, no, I'll just eat, I'll just have a small salad. And she's not like that. She's like,  and she shows pictures of, you know, big plates of food because she's, you know, needs it to be a great athlete. Yeah. And she's a big woman.

I mean, rugby is  a very rough sport. And, um, she looks like if she crashed into you, she would knock me down. It would hurt. And, and yet she's still girly. She's still feminine in, in many senses of the word. Um, cause I don't want to speak for all, you know, for all things feminine by any means. But what I like about her is that although she is, you know, Um, big and muscular.

She has a square jaw like men do. She's famously talks about her broad shoulders. She's vulnerable. She's vulnerable. She shows weakness to the camera in a way that to me is very charming. Um,  and. She'll say things about crushes Crushes, how would we say that? Crushes is when you're interested in Somebody in in them flirting with you or going out on a date with you.

So, you know, here's this 27 year old Superstar with 2 million fans again kind of like Simone Biles You know, saying things on Instagram, like, Oh, I'm here in the Olympic village. Oh, there's some cute guys here. You know, I hope  it's, it's time to, it's time to flirt, you know, things like that. I just think that's wonderful.

I, I love that freshness that she has. And, um, you know, she, she uses her platform to send messages, positive messages. I actively send positive messages to women that, Hey, you're still, you know, you still have people that are going to find you attractive even if you don't have the stereotypical, um,  feminine characteristics because I'm very beautiful even though I don't check all the boxes so to speak.

I don't have every single, uh, stereotypical truth about me being feminine.  You know, I, I would say that she's adorable. Like if she were dating one of my sons and my, you know, my son came home and said, you know, this is Alana and she acted that way in front of me as the, as the father, I would be like, Oh son, she's adorable.

You know, in Spanish we'd say in Mexican Spanish or, or maybe Puerto Rican Spanish you say es, es monita  or es, es preciosa, right? She's encantadora,  right? She's charming. She's adorable.  Thank you. Alana mayor for being who you are. Um, and I hope, you know, people follow your example.  Yeah. Yeah. That's really cool.

I'm glad you told me about her because again, I had just seen pictures of her and she seen that she was very strong and very aggressive. Um, so it's really funny to think I see now some pictures where she's, you know, she's looks very feminine and, uh, right. And she's like, she'll wear a black dress,  but it'll show off a bruise on her leg.

And her fans will say, Oh, I like how the dress contrasts with your, with your bruise. Um, now a bruise, Oh, I'm starting to remember what a bruise is in Spanish. It's like an Amora, a Marona. So a bruise, yeah, a bruise is like when something has hit you and it leaves like a green or purple mark on your flesh under your skin.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And then it's, it's sore. So if you, if you fall, you're often going to have a bruise wherever you hit the ground. I know I do. I bruise easily now that I'm older, you know, if Gabriel or I walked on a balance beam, you know, to kind of close this up, we walked on a balance beam, we would have a lot of bruises on our legs and forehead and shoulders. 

And as we fell off the balance beam onto the padded floor, where did you get that bruise? Um, uh, the, the balance. is doing something I'm too old to do. I was being foolish.  Someone had left 20 on it. I was trying to get it, but I fell off before I could, could get it.  I have 200 in medical bills.  I have a lot of bruises, 20 bruises. 

Well, Yantis, we hope this has been a useful lesson for you. Thank you to our patrons and, um, Gabe, thanks for your time. It's great talking to you as always.  Well, great fun. Let's just keep rooting for team USA. And, uh, again, sure has been fun to talk about this and I look forward to the rest of the Olympics.

All right. Talk to you soon. Love you. Bye.  All right. Love you. Bye.