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It's sports news told differently.

And I'm so thrilled that we have another very very exciting green and gold edition for.

You, dear listeners.

We are green and gold and you can't stop us.

No, really, you can't stop us.

I am so so excited.

I love the Winter Games.

It's unhinged, it's so us, it's shoot from the hit, pretend you know everything about figure skating when you don't.

And George, I just feel like before we kick off this season and we're doing it with a bang, we have to address the elephant in the room, and that is that we are not in the same room, because my gosh, did my inbox just have an influx?

About are YouTube breaking up?

When Georgie decided that she wanted to go be the star of Channel ten in Sydney, okay, firstly, deeply upset, deeply, truly upset.

But as I've said to you, you are that toxic X that says she's leaving and then she comes back.

That's right, you always you, you boomerang.

You will come back to me.

And I'm sure that you're planning to be very successful in Sydney, but you will come back to me.

Can I just say, dear listener, before we begin our green and Gold addition, you got to get yourself a friend like Jelmy, because when I broke the news to her that I was going to be moving into State, We're going to continue the podcast, do not worry.

That was front of mine, obviously, but Jelmy was like, oh you no, I'm fine, Yeah, this is fine, like full ross Geller, this is fine, this is good, this is okay.

And then the next day she called me and she said, you know those movies, those teen dramas the summer I turn pretty that we scream at each other and.

We're like, just tell her you love her.

She's like, this is me with a boombox asking you not to move.

And I said see ya.

And then I called Robert and I was like you.

It was always you.

You've done this to me, You and the beautiful beaches of Sydney.

Goddamn it.

Anyway, anyway, we have reunited.

We are still here, Delista and even more unhinged.

The pot is about to become because we don't have our time to decompress before.

So you think you got too much of us before, But that perfectly leads into the fact that there is going to be a bit of a different format this season.

George.

Yes, yes, we are bringing you by popular demand apparently tell me so many people, which is great, But so many people adored our interviews last season that we were doing our chats.

We've heard the feedback.

We've seen the feedback, and hopefully you're a fan of this.

Let us know.

We are going to be releasing two episodes a week.

We are stepping up with two good sports.

We are going to another level.

We are going to have our usual episodes release, which is Jelmy and I are talking all things for in our unhinged way, all of the analysis, all of the non analysis, everything you need to know and you don't know.

But then also we're going to drop another episode during the week, which is just to chat with some athletes and people that we think that you need to know about and who we adore.

We love it, We absolutely love it, and we love green and Gold.

So let's get into it.

We are on the press a person.

By that, I mean, of course it's already started of the Winter Games in Milan.

There are fun words that when a ladder say so many.

Because we are not an official podcast, I'm sure you can guess what they are.

They rhyme with those empic.

But we are going to just keep kicking on.

I've been told I'm not allowed to replace that where with ozempic for the entire season, but you get the drift.

George.

Firstly, can we talk about the fact that things that you love, yes, happen to keep infiltrating sport?

Yes, yes they do, Yes they do.

And can I just say is it a coincidence?

No?

No, I don't think it is.

I think that I'm living my own version of The Truman Show.

And you know what, Jim Carey, I get it.

You know.

Sometimes the spotlight it's a lot.

It is a lot, but these shoulders, I'm going to take it.

Because everything that I love, for every person that I has come into my life, somehow seems to relate back to sport, including allegedly the opening ceremony for the Winter Games Milano Cortina.

Mariah Carey, my best friend is apparently going to be there.

What what is going to be singing in a Taria Carey, who you asked if she had clamydios.

That's a genuine I haven't just made that up.

You can google that.

There is a very expressionless Mariah Carey looking down the barrel as Georgie's mentioned something about koalas and chlamydia, and you can tell that she's like, this isn't where I parked my car.

It's true.

Allusions were made, weren't they?

Allusions were made?

And Mariah goes, no, I could or no, I like that.

But we're best friends, so it was fine, you know, like it was fine.

She loves it.

Oh my goodness, sorry we're interrupt our record just for a hot second because producer got scared me a scuff so that I can match Jelmies.

I've got.

It's been a costume change, guys, Yes, we've got.

We're in our actual green and God.

But it wasn't Mariah Carey that I was alluding to.

I was, of course talking about heated rivalry.

Thank you, look, thank you so much for bringing it up.

I've set myself a challenge to not be the first person to bring it up, and you being able to do that, Like, how long has this episode gone?

For?

Three minutes?

That is?

That was torturous.

That felt like thirteen years.

That's three decades of my life that I've not mentioned my boys, my eyes.

Dear listeners, if you haven't watched it, nor have I, that's so und a great duress because Georgie wants to film me watching it for the first time.

Yes, that's where we're at.

No, I haven't watched it.

But there is vicious rumors or it has it been confirmed that they are going to be in some sort of flag bearing component for the opening games.

Well, I'm really glad that you've come to me again for this news, Jeremy, because they are my special thesis subject.

I didn't know these boys existed two months ago, and now I know every single thing about them.

I know when they blink, I know when they breathe, I know.

When they were born.

Don't you worry about that?

And I have just had the greatest time falling in love with them, as so many millions of people have the over the summer or our or their winter anyway.

But what I can confirm is that we do not know if they are going to be at the opening ceremony.

They have already become a torch bearer, so they did have the torch.

They were part of the relay through some tiny town in Italy, which is.

Just emails that takes out because I'm like, they're going to be flag bearers for what country?

Country?

But anyone who hasn't watched it, can I just say, just do yourself a favor and watch it.

Jellmy's not allowed, but come on, all of this will make more sense once you watch it all.

But if they are not front row behind the glass looking at the boy aquarium, that is the ice hockey at the Winter Games, what are we doing here?

What is the world doing?

So that is what I is currently keeping me alive.

I don't want to be too dramatic about it, but that is what is giving my life right now.

It's the possibility that that could happen.

So giving you just said boy aquarium, George, I feel like we may have lost some beeple.

So let's bring it back to the sport part of two good sports, because we love a medal tally here on the Green and Gold edition, So I'm gonna look back through history.

How many medals do we have from the Winter Games?

We have six gold, seven silver, six bronze, taking us to nineteen total, which I feel is punching up for a giant island with a lot of sand.

Like I feel like as a general rule, Australia has done really well at the Games.

But I believe that this is the best ever Winter team that we've sent.

And we're about to preview some of the athletes that you need to know, some that we just love to know, and that's coming up next.

Jeremy just wanted to do a little bit of a check in here because when we are talking about the Winter Games and just the spectacle that it is, I think why so many of us love it as Australians in particular, is because it is for one of a better words, so foreign to so many of us.

We didn't grow up with snow in our backyard.

I have, actually, full disclosure, never been skiing.

What I've so well traveled.

What do you mean I've seen snow, but I've never been Can you imagine?

Sorry, let's just stop down.

Can you imagine me on skis?

Okay, that's fun.

Have you been skiing?

That's what I wanted to ask.

Okay, this will not surprise you.

I have been skiing and was so bad at it that I ended up next to some Swedish child who looked about five in the beginner's class that made it look so easy.

And my butt was so wet from falling over in the snow that, again, no surprise to anyone.

I'm like, I'm gonna get some mulled wine.

Is everyone good?

So I'd paid for all these lessons, and I'd rented all of the ski kid because we were in New Zealand, and I was like, oh, I don't need this, I really don't.

So I love watching it.

I love watching it, and I loved covering the Winter Games.

That's the other thing these athletes.

You will fall in love with them, because if you think that you know, the Commonwealth Games are the feel good games.

These are on a whole nother level.

Yeah, they genuinely a lot of these athletes genuinely love each other and it's just the most feel good excitement.

And again, medals are so hard to come by that when it does happen, oh, you've just got to get around them.

So would you say that.

I just think that winter athletes in particular, they have did you say, are cool?

Yeah, That's what I was going to say.

Yes, yes, yes, they're so cool, like they have swag about that, like they're just they walk into a room and I'm like, wow, what do you do?

Can I be around you?

Like that's their vibe?

Or Tess Cody, who was one of the snowboarders who wont to medal in the last game, she had more swagger and a pinky finger than I'll have you in my life.

Hey, hey, come on now, Oh we.

Both know that that's true.

If I was to do something on a half five bit be called the straighty one.

Eighty like, that's that's where we're at.

That's where we're at.

But let's start off with someone who's probably a bit of a straighty one eighty.

But she can do whatever the hell she wants because she is our best chance of meddling at these games.

Jakara Anthony our most successful Australian World Cup skier of all time, with twenty six moguls titles.

Twenty six mogus titles.

You might remember her from winning gold in Beijing and she won every round of the moguls like she was unassailable.

She has a mind of steal this woman, because the moguls will.

Firstly, you need knees of steals if you if you are fresh to the Winter Games and you're just thinking, hang on, moguls, that's the one where their knees look like they should just explode.

Yes, yes, it's we basically hit on the way down and there's all of those bumps, and yet somehow they still have time to go upside down sometimes like they're still flipping and they're still working out their knees and I'm like, I don't understand how any of this is physically possible.

And I mean that physically in terms of your body, but also physics like that that's where we're at.

How So she won our first gold since Lydia Lassla in twenty ten.

That's how much of a dry spell had been until our last winter gold, which happened obviously at the last Games.

She broke her collar bone and had surgery in December.

Again she fine, she's absolutely flying last December, as in just gone, oh my god, and yet she has not missed a beat.

But I think this is what you will love about this story.

Her parents met on the slopes of Mount Buller.

I do love that.

Oh, I mean, she was always going to be a snow baby.

Let's talk about I mean, we know how I'm about romance novels right now.

Is there a better meat cute than meeting in a snow chalet?

Probably not.

I think there was a cottage involved at some variety.

But anyway, see, I haven't even seen it.

And by osmosis, I know there's a cottage.

We need to stop referencing it because we are going to lose people, all right.

She made her World Cup debut at just sixteen years old, and Peung Chang she came fourth.

This is her third games.

If she wins back to back gold like borderline, get a tattoo, it is unbelievable.

What how good she is?

Yeah?

And the thing is though, Jellmy that I feel like you should be shaving up an area because she's odds on.

She's odds on to win gold.

I'm not Carlos Algaaz.

There is enough square.

Centimeters on me that we don't need to shave up an area.

Thank you George for that visual.

But she's the number one ranked moguesia in the world, like she is going into this games as the one to beat.

Most recently, she's won everything she possibly could so and when she wins gold, we're gonna get her.

On the pod watched me hunt her down.

I've got enough contacts that I will I will work this out.

But also she was on the cover of Vogue.

Is the other one that you need to think of, like she is genuinely the poster woman, and she is also one of the Australian flag bearers, as is her Mogul's teammate in Matt Graham.

Mat Graham thirty one makes me feel better because some of these athletes are.

Twelve, Georgie, they're twelve.

It's really is really bad.

I don't want to talk about how when I remember I was messaging you when I realized how old Novak Djokovic was most recently.

No, she was only three years older than me and it caused for words viirl.

Anyway, this will make you feel the same.

Matt Graham, thirty one, going to his fourth Winter Games.

I cannot.

I'm not great at maths at the best of times, and when people like this are so impressive and they do these things, I don't understand now, Matt Graham, I feel like co flag bearer very exciting.

With Jakara, I feel like sometimes he isn't given the same attention purely because Jakara exists, and that is no shade on Jakara.

She deserves every bit of spotlight that she can.

But he is ranked number two in the world for this.

Has also won silver.

Yeah, so he is also very very very likely to, if not win gold, at least podium.

And this will be a fairy tale for him because he had a horror run and I'm telling do not google images because they are terrifying, a horror run of injuries before Beijing twenty twenty two.

So it was one of those things where he was primed and he had had a World Cup victory, he'd won the Golden Globe whatever they call the Golden Block.

You can tell me.

I love the glow, the snow globe of something leading into those games.

So he was meant to be the man and then was struck down by injury.

But we do love that.

We have the Jewel Moguls being introduced in Milan, and this is massive because we have a great Moguls team.

So essentially, remember when Jess Box they were like, oh, by the way, they're going to introduce another chance for her to win gold.

Yes, and everyone got pumped.

That's what's happened here.

So the Jewel Moguls instead of going down one at a time and receiving a score, they go downside by side.

Okay, so if you're the average punter i e.

Every Australian, you can be like, oh, their flippy thing looked better than their flippy thing.

Yeah, that's that again.

I don't understand the physics of it.

That actually sounds impossible to me, but it is one of my genuinely favorite events to watch at the Winter Games.

Also, Gelmy, we've been talking about just the absolute feet of logistics that this game is in terms of the location that it is, how spread out it is, and Mac has become for one of a better word, a rather unfortunate victim of that because his parents, do you know this, His parents flew over to obviously watch him at the games, and when it was announced that he was going to be a flag bearer, they were like, oh my god, we're getting tickets.

We're getting tickets to the ceremony.

So they did, and they booked all of their accommodation.

The opening ceremony, part of it is taking place at the football stadium in Milan, right, which is very un that's very unusual when it comes to Winter Games.

You don't typically have stadiums because plot twist White.

They don't compete in them, they don't compete in them, and they're not really in cities.

But because it's Milan, they've got this hugely famous football stadium that is going to be a part of the opening ceremony.

But the flag bearers, and especially Mat Graham, they're not going to be there.

They're going to be up the mountain walking.

So Matt Graham's parents have booked accommodation and tickets to watch their son at a ceremony that he's not at.

Yeah, oh, mister and missus Gray, I know yep.

So they're gonna go, They're gonna have a great time.

They're gonna have a great time not watching their son, and then they will eventually make it to the mountain to watch him in the moguls.

I did think it was interesting at the flag bearer announcement it was only Jaikara's parents there.

Yeah.

Yes, the poul Grahams are sorting out.

They're calm for someone they don't need to be.

Oh, that's but it is a genuine challenge at the athlete's face, and also for an Australian team where you've got to have a certain level of physios and medics and not everyone is Scotty James with the sort of support that he can have where he's going.

It's a logistical nightmare because between some of these towns is ten hour travel and especially as journo's it's really hard for them to get to pick which events they kind of need to be at.

And it's definitely not one for the spectators, which is why it's perfect that you watch from home and listen to us be unhinged.

Did I just mention Scotty James, Yes, I did come on down the boy from Warren Diet who in fact, is now thirty one.

If in your head he still looks like Harry Styles, that's for good reason.

Because this man and he's going to his fifth Winter Games and we love that number five because he just won his fifth consecutive X Games gold in the super pipe, bringing his ex game gold total to eight, which has him equal.

With Sean White.

Oh wow, the go wow and the thing that I love about this so with the snowboard, superpipe and half pipe, it's all about busting out tricks that no one's seen.

Our boy, Scottie James and boy I mean man who's now a father, has gone underground and has not been showing people the tricks that he has up his sleeve.

And for all of his accolades, all of his success, he's won bronze, he's one silver.

The one thing that's left in that enormous trophy, Captain, is a space for the gold medal, and he has said it will be my number one achievement.

It will be the one thing that I want to hang my hat on is achieving gold for my country.

And if he does medal at this Games, it will be the third consecutive Games that he's meddled at that's the first Australian and this is ever.

To be I feel like we talk about Jacara Anthony is one of the more recognizable athletes on this team.

But there's between Gotty's underniably.

Scotty James is the rockstar of the Australian Winters team and he has been for a million years.

As you say.

Twenty ten was his debut fifteen years old in Vancouver and from there he has just feen fifteen Get out, far out, get out, stop also.

Stopping, so charismatic.

Have you ever been in a room with Scotty James?

Yes, yes I have.

It's like no one else is there.

All the air gets sucked out and you're like, sorry, the natural.

Blue of your eyes?

Have you lensed up just for me?

No?

And a lot taller than what you think he would be.

So much taller, and I'm like, how can you do those little how can you.

Flip with the things?

And also he is just and I love this.

He The first snowboard he ever had was ten dollars and they had to get it from the display of the shop because they didn't have one small enough.

Oh, Scotty, he's just I actually think that this is going to be his games.

I think everything that you just said they're jelmy is just pointing to a fairy tale and we talk about them a lot when they don't work out, but it really really could.

I'm not saying this is going to be his last games, but I feel like it's one of his last opportunities to win what he's always wanted, which is the gold.

Also, as a side note, because these athletes, you're gonna watch them over the course of this fortnight, they make the impossible seem so achievable.

Oh, when you.

Are watching that half pipe, the drop that they come down for is like fourteen stories they like, I don't.

Understand, it actually makes it actually makes you want to vomit.

And the other thing about as saying the impossible possible at that recent X Games, win people that a move no one had ever seen before, and that's the thing.

These athletes store up their tricks and decide to drop them at the games, so everyone goes, no, no, he didn't.

And the commentary also immaculate, like they're just so cool, so cool.

If we see a Scottie James gold, it will be one of the great moments in Australian sport period.

Yes, agreed, agreed, and we have watched him grow up.

But if we're going to talk about someone who made their debut at fifteen, can we talk about our youngest athlete at these.

Games who happens to be world number one at what she does?

Indra Brown?

Indra Brown?

Firstly, what a name?

She turned to be a sipster?

She turned sixteen on the twenty eighth of January.

Oh, come on now, and she I don't need to be known in its existentialism of mine, don't need to know.

At fifteen years old, she was world number one in the free ski half pipe.

So you talk about watching the half pipe and going gee, that looks wild, imagine doing that on skis at fifteen.

And so she competed at.

Her first ever World Cup in the half pipe very recently, again because she is I don't know, fifteen, and her first four results were third, second, first and fourth.

That's crazy, that's crazy.

That is gell mey and tunny versions of what we think we could achieve with out type A personalities.

I'm looking at.

Curling and I'm like, well, I'm meddling in that.

What do you mean we don't have an Australian team.

Skeleton looks terrifying.

I'm gonna give a crack.

Of skeleton, don't.

And that's the thing between the skeleton and the louge.

There are so many sports, ice dancing versus figure skating.

There is so much for us to break down.

And I know that both of those are going to be one of yours.

But Indra Brown again, we have a top ranked Ossie in the World Cup women's standings.

We use it in women loosely because she's not yet an adult that is going at these She is our next ye Scottie James, your Brick Cox one that we're gonna watch grow up.

She's a Melbourne school girl.

The thing that kills me when you look at all these athletes, they're always like, oh, also, I'm studying medicine.

Oh actually I have a degree in this.

Did I mention that there is such high achievers, they're so awesome?

Can't wait?

And a very very quick mention to Bree Walker as well.

Thirty three second game.

She won three World Cups in the mono sleigh, the bob sleigh, if you don't mind, And there are so many quotes, aere of my favorite movies, Cool Runnings.

I can't say because we're not allowed to.

Say the word that starts with oh, I'll say redacted at the right part.

Ready go, I'm feeling very redacted today.

At least I can say, can you kiss my lucky egg?

It's my favorite, It was my favorite movie growing.

Up, right, Cool Runnings and all of that is actually such a beautiful example of what happens to a lot of OSSI athletes.

Bree Walker was inspired by, like many of us, watching Kathy in two thousand had a crack at track.

Had injuries and thought, wait, what can I do?

And I was actually after seeing Yana Pittman compete in the Bob Sleigh and make that change that she thought, you know what, I'm gonna have a crack here.

And that's exactly what happens in Cool Running.

Yeah, I mean, John Kass what it's it's life imitating art, which is the best version of life.

What I'm hearing, Jelmy, What I am hearing amid all of our excitement, amid all of our unhinged craziness typical is I am hearing genuine, genuine metal chances and among those medals, genuine gold medal contenders.

That's honestly what this team, our second biggest that we've ever assembled, could pull off.

Three gold reckon get three, which to add to our tally of six.

Ever, I feel like I feel like it's going to be a Golden Games.

I really do.

And it's just again, it's like a fairy tale.

Let's be honest.

You look at that place and it's like a snow globe.

It is, Honestly, it's like it's not real.

So let's just lean in enjoy.

We will give you all of the unhinged green and goldness about it.

I'm pumped.

I'm so pumped, so excited, Georgie.

I have the world's most elite fun fact before we go that is relating to the Winter Games, and it also has an audio element.

So I'm going to show you the visual but also the noise, and you tell me what you hear and see.

Okay, okay, that is a dancing minion.

It is an ice dancing figure skating minion.

Now, this is genuine news that broke the world over.

This man dressed in as a minion.

From Despicable Me, the cute little yellow things in overalls.

He's competing for his country dressed as a minion.

The problem is the owner of the minions.

And let's say for fun fact that it's universal, because I think it is, but it's whatever the house company is.

Essentially said a week out from the Games, you can't use the music because copyright no.

And this poor dancing minion has put a plea out to the world saying please, I need the music.

It's my costume, it's how I qualified to represent my country.

And our friend Thomas has started the hashtag let the Minion skate and because of the pressure of the world, they met the picture.

In skate that is one of my favorites, and I think that we need to leave off that episode there jellmy, because there's no better way to end it.

We need that vibe heading into the Games this year.

Let my Spanish ice skater, Thomas, I am so far in your corner, and let the Minion skate.

We will be bringing you more fun facts on this Green and Gold edition, but that is our energy one hundred until next week.

Be green and Gold baby.

Thanks so much to having on and for making this unofficial Green in Golden distion possible.

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