Speaker 1: 0:44

Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix. My name is Matt Sidhom, Alongside my co-host and co-founder of Super Awesome Mix, Samer Abu-Salbi Samer. How are we doing this week?

Speaker 2: 0:54

You know I'm doing well. I'm enjoying that happy summer, samer happy version of me this year. It's been good. It's been good Matt.

Speaker 1: 1:02

You really have had a good summer. I feel like, yeah, you know, your one-year wedding anniversary is coming up right, or passed it just passed? Yeah, it just passed, it just passed. Okay.

Speaker 2: 1:14

Yeah, which is incredible, that it's been a year and we actually went back to where we got married, which is really nice since we got married a restaurant. We were able to just go back to that restaurant and have a meal, and they were very nice, very nice about it. Um, they helped celebrate, uh put together a nice celebration for us. So, um, we're hoping that if we just keep doing that, at some point they'll just give us a meal for free.

Speaker 1: 1:35

That'd be great, yeah I was gonna ask any freebies, or was it just like we're gonna put a candle in your dessert? That?

Speaker 2: 1:40

you order and pay for um, we did get some freebies. Um, okay, it's uh, it's supposed to be. Normally it's a three course meal, right, like fixed price. They brought us seven courses in total and a bonus dessert. I mean we had to be rolled out of there. Um, it was, it was very generous of them, very nice. But yeah, you really can only go there once a year because it's just so much food.

Speaker 1: 2:07

Yeah, I haven't eaten, well, you know so well, sam, yeah, I mean, obviously you're training for a marathon later this year, um, and so that's probably not going to be. That's going to be more of a post-workout type meal than a pre-workout. Is that fair to say.

Speaker 2: 2:23

Exactly yeah, absolutely yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 2:26

But, you know, other people's competitions are upon us, actually starting this weekend with the Paris Olympics.

Speaker 2: 2:34

Yeah, I'm so excited. I love the Olympics and it's a great city to be hosting it. And I'm really excited for a lot of the games, especially the marathon. This year I've actually gotten into watching professional marathoning. Never thought I'd be interested in doing that, but it's a lot of fun. So the track and field events I'm pretty excited for.

Speaker 1: 2:55

Yeah, no, it should be. I don't know. It's all. It's always interesting at the Olympics. I love it too, and this year, like my kids are old enough to where they're really into it as well. So I think it's going to be a fun couple weeks and then, plus being in Paris, the time difference isn't dramatic.

Speaker 1: 3:09

So that, thank goodness if you're kind of home, like apparently during the day I heard Mike Tirico talk about this recently really all day is going to be live coverage and then if you tune in at night, that's going to be kind of the recap show and they'll hit the highlights and all that in prime time and they'll still show some full competitions there. But just prepare, you know, if you're at work all day and you're hoping to not get any spoilers, there's no guarantee that'll happen. But it's not like when it was in australia and you pretty much had to stay up all night to watch everything live exactly, yeah, um, so with.

Speaker 2: 3:42

since it is the olympics, the reason we're talking about that is we put together a pretty cool olympics mix again. Um, I think previous years we've done kind of a funny one where we put song titles that began with usa over and over this year. I had the idea to just basically go out and search for what Olympians are listening to heading into the Paris Olympics, or what they've listened to in the past heading into the Olympics, because, as you can imagine, music plays a pretty big role in a lot of competitors' lives to kind of get you amped up, or in some cases, you can actually listen to music while you're competing I'm just imagining with the snowboarders in the Winter Olympics. So I thought it'd be kind of fun to get a sense of, like, what do Olympians listen to as they're heading to the?

Speaker 1: 4:24

games. Yeah, this is professional pump up music, right it's not like you and I just kind of being like, hey, I kind of like this song, I can kind of get into it, and then people on Instagram disagree with us. It's like, no, these guys have achieved at a high level and are listening to this before they compete. So there's something to this, I feel like.

Speaker 2: 4:44

Absolutely, and I hope that you listener are ready for it, because that's going to bring us to our first track and this is Ready For it by Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1: 4:54

Yeah, I mean, we got to start at the top, no-transcript at the beginning. And of course, simone Biles is like the most dominant gymnast of all time, and so, of course, why wouldn't she use the most dominant pop artist of all time?

Speaker 2: 5:29

Exactly. No, I agree. I mean not only like gymnast, but she's just. You know, there's some people that like transcend their sport, right?

Speaker 2: 5:36

And I feel like she's one of those people. It's like everyone knows her name and how talented she is, and like what she can accomplish on and off the field. So I love this pick. Um, I mean, this is a great song. It's also a great opener to a mix like this. I think, like the just like the are you ready for it? That she sings over and over in the chorus is like incredible. I used to have a remix of this for a spin class too. That went really well. It was a lot of fun. It's hard not to kind of feel, you know in your like amped up and ready for the game when you put this on.

Speaker 1: 6:07

Yeah for sure. So I mean you're definitely going to hear this when Simone Biles competes and Taylor Swift already kind of gave her a shout out on Twitter, I think gave it the blessing that you know she's going to be using this song. So pretty cool when two people really at the top of their game kind of connect like that and they probably have some experiences that very few people can relate to. So that's also pretty cool. So, speaking of working at a high level, right, this next one I mean people getting along at a high level could be called birds of a feather. All right, and your first pick is birds of a feather by Billie Eilish.

Speaker 2: 6:42

Yeah, so this is the pick of Gabby Thomas and track and field. Of course I had to put someone up there. Uh, as I just mentioned, I love watching that. It's one of my favorites. Now she uh got the bronze and the 200, silver and the 4x100s and gold in the 2024 World Relays, so she is a great competitor for Team USA. Very excited to see what she does this year in the Olympics. It's interesting.

Speaker 2: 7:04

This is like obviously a little different than kind of a traditional amp-up song, but I think I really like the message in what I'm imagining.

Speaker 2: 7:11

Why she wanted to, you know, put this on.

Speaker 2: 7:13

Her mix is like this is just all about, you know, kind of love, and love that lasts until death, and I think that that's like a really beautiful sentiment.

Speaker 2: 7:20

And I imagine you know, certainly as I'm competing, just as a non-professional person, like you can't go out and train for something like a marathon or 10K or whatever you're doing without a lot of love and support your friends and family, and so I just imagine like this is a nice reminder that, like you are not an island and you are out there and in the case of the Olympics, you're kind of being supported by your whole country, which just gives me chills, to even say out loud. I think that that's really incredible and part of the magic of the Olympics is like you represent, like your nation and where you come from, and all these people are rooting for you. So I just think that's really cool and I, you know, I like this pick as being a little non-traditional, in terms of like it's not an amp up one, but one that is a nice message. And obviously, billie Eilish is also just incredible pop artist these days and I'm pretty sure most people are familiar with her music.

Speaker 1: 8:09

You know, this one felt like the Billie Eilish filter on a Taylor Swift song.

Speaker 2: 8:13

Yes, it was a little more.

Speaker 1: 8:15

It was way more poppy, even though she's a pop artist. It was way more kind of bubbly almost, than I'm used to from Billie Eilish. I actually really like this just as a song outside of the track and field association. But you're right about the Olympics and competing with that love, because even though we hear all the stories and we get the big names ahead of the Olympic Games, inevitably in those two weeks there's somebody who kind of rises to the occasion that no one's ever heard of before and they win a gold, a silver, bronze, whatever it is, and that becomes kind of the household name that comes out of the Olympics. So that's, I'm totally with you. That's always really fun to see somebody come out of nowhere and become notable.

Speaker 2: 8:58

Absolutely All right. I'm really curious whose pick this is. This is a track number three Material Girl by Madonna.

Speaker 1: 9:05

Yeah. So here this is a Spanish artistic gymnast, lara Casabuena, and this is her the song that she does like her floor exercise to. She does a symphonic version of Material Girl. It's actually really cool, but even funnier. Laura's just 18. And this is her first Olympics, and I think it's awesome that she's using a song that is more than twice her age, right.

Speaker 2: 9:31

Yeah, incredible yeah.

Speaker 1: 9:36

But it totally works incredible, yeah, but it totally works. Like if you go to youtube and watch the uh, watch her routine, one she's, she's an amazing gymnast. Obviously she's going to the olympics, but, uh, then you hear the song and you're like god, this totally works right with the symphony and everything. So I think that's also going to be cool to see. You know, I'm going to point that out to, uh, my daughter, because she always one, she loves the gymnastics competition, but she also loves know, I'm going to point that out to my daughter because she always one she loves the gymnastics competition, but she also loves music. So I'm going to point out to her that this is actually a Madonna song that she's listening to. But I think, you know, it'll be cool for people to kind of just connected to a song that I mean, I think is a great song, and I re-listened to it as I was preparing for this mix and I was like you know, it's still good 40 years on.

Speaker 2: 10:17

It is still really good. I mean, the chorus is such an earworm. I'm singing it in my head right now as we talk about it. I'm hearing it Definitely kind of like yeah, confident, you know it's a song you can walk tall to. The other thing, too that made me laugh is, as I was reflecting on my own experience again, total amateur runner. But I love being like a material boy because I always try to run in like matching outfit, right, like head to toe. I look like a branded runner. You know, like I've got like the Nike logos head to toe or like the Lulu logos head to toe. I don't like to mismatch. You know, I'm not one of these runners that like throws on whatever free t-shirt you got, like four months ago and heads out the door like no, I like no, I look like someone has sponsored me. So I'm very much living in a material world and I'm a material boy. It's great, that's amazing.

Speaker 1: 11:04

So you know for all the longtime, listeners who were like Matt and Sam are pretty much the same person. Okay, Um, what we're opposites on that one. I'm definitely the. What free t-shirt that I recently get am I throwing on?

Speaker 2: 11:18

oh my god, that's awesome I do love that.

Speaker 1: 11:24

By the way, if any brands out there want to sponsor sammer, okay, we're totally open to that, all right we'll wear your logo a little super awesome mix on there. Anyway, at super awesome mix, hit us up. Okay, we're very interested. All right, now your next pick here. I mean, I don't know, I don't even need an athlete for this one to apply to the Olympics, all right, but I'm interested to see whose pick this was. This is Lose Yourself by Eminem.

Speaker 2: 11:48

Yeah, I mean, obviously, this had to be on someone's list. You not be. It's a classic amp up song. I think it could go on any mix like this um, this is the. This is the pick of chase budinger for beach volleyball, and he's actually a former basketball player. He was drafted to the pistons, he got um gold for beach volleyball in the 2023 world tour and he's now going to be the only person to play a regular season game in the nba and olympic beach volleyball and I love stats like that. Right, like well, you get very specific, you know, it's just, it's going to be yeah, I love. I love when people bring things up like that. Yeah, and like NFL is like that all the time.

Speaker 2: 12:30

Right, like, it's like this is the first game that's been played during a full moon where someone is thrown with their left hand four times is the first game that's been played during a full moon where someone is thrown with their left hand. Four times.

Speaker 1: 12:41

He's the first barefoot kicker to throw a touchdown pass in overtime. Well, how many times has that even happened?

Speaker 2: 12:51

Exactly, but, yeah, obviously, classic classic amp up song. You know, great reminder. You generally just have that one shot right, and so I think you know. For me, the way what I really started to think about is like you do have the one shot to compete, but then you know, the whole point of the Olympics is that you spend your entire life training to where that one shot is just one of a million shots that you've already done. So you just kind of go show up, do it one more time, just like you've been doing it, and like that's kind of the mental game you got to play so great song, though, and you know. Good luck to Chase.

Speaker 1: 13:23

Oh, I love that. And I remember Chase Budinger. He was awesome at Arizona in college, like basketball wise, never really like panned out in the NBA, but obviously good enough to get drafted. But he could always just jump out of the gym right Like he's such. So I wasn't surprised at all when I saw he made the transition to beach volleyball and I was actually pretty fired up because I'm like, oh man, he is going to well. I think he's like six foot six and a lot of these beach volleyballers are pretty tall, so it's going to be. I think that's going to be really fun.

Speaker 1: 13:54

I really have the last couple of Olympics since they've added beach volleyball. That's always been a really fun sport to watch, no matter who's competing. But yeah, that's going to be a great one. And also, you know you're talking about that one shot. It's like he kind of had a shot at the NBA and now pretty cool for him and it just shows you the level of athleticism for him to be like. Well, let me go into this other sport and I'll just compete at the highest level here.

Speaker 2: 14:18

Exactly. Yeah, I love when athletes do that. All right. Track number five this is the King of Wishful Thinking by Go West.

Speaker 1: 14:27

Okay, I had to include this one just because I don't know when I'll ever be able to include this song on a mix again, although because I do love this song. But this comes from natalia diem, and she is an australian athlete in bmx freestyle, and 2020 was the first time bmx freestyle was an olympic sport and she finished fifth in that competition. She will be back in paris competing this year. Um, I didn't get the why as to why she put it in there, but I would imagine I mean, if you listen to this song that you know, in order to compete at the absolute highest level, you need to have quite a bit of wishful thinking, and if you're the king of wishful thinking, that's probably even better. I mean, this is also another old song. It's from the Pretty Woman soundtrack, if you remember that, julia.

Speaker 1: 15:12

Roberts, richard gear movie from like 1991 or so. Um, but I, I mean I love this song. But yeah, when I saw this as a possibility to put on a mix, I'm like I'm getting it on there yeah, I don't know where else you would have. You would have been able to fit this I agree.

Speaker 2: 15:30

Um, I had the same reaction as you. I feel like you have. You have to be the king of wishful thinking, because it is like you know, they talk a lot about the power of visualization and kind of manifestation is what it's known Like you got to visualize yourself winning, because then by the time you're there you're like well again, just doing it just like I imagined, and you kind of can cut out a lot of your nerves that way. So what was funny is I played this and instantly, in the first few notes, was like this has to be an 80s song, like house is not an 80s song. And I looked and it was released in 1990, which is close enough right the tail end there was exactly.

Speaker 1: 16:04

There's some early 90s. We should do a mix on that where it's like released in the 90s but actually an 80s song exactly because there was some there's a little bit of a tail there that reached into the early 90s, for sure yeah all right, this next pick by you.

Speaker 1: 16:19

I mean, you already kind of referred to it a little bit with your last pick, but, um, again, don't really need an athlete for this one, but it is my shot by lynn manuel miranda and, uh, the cast of hamilton yes, so this is lee keifer, um, and she's a fencer and she's out of ohio.

Speaker 2: 16:35

um, she got first in the 2020 olymp the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo for individual women's foil. So she has done this before, you know, and I imagine that every single time she goes to compete, she feels like she's not going to throw away her shot. So she'd mentioned that Hamilton's soundtrack is one of her go-tos for kind of heading into competition, and so I picked this one off of the soundtrack because I have to imagine, um, like this it's again, it's a great one, you know, similar to the Eminem one. It's just a reminder, like you're not going to throw away your shot. I especially like this one in the context of the Olympics because, you know, as uh Lin-Manuel is singing, like you know, it's the country of America, being young, scrappy, hungry, right Like, and again you're going and representing the United States here. So I think it's perfect to also kind of get you in that headspace of like you're going wearing Team USA's banner and everything, which is really exciting.

Speaker 2: 17:25

So the other thing that's funny her being a fencer. I actually was on a trip one time with a friend of mine and we were just like sitting. It was a nice resort hotel and we were like getting to chat up some people next to us in the pool and we were just kind of talking like hey, what do you do? And the guy with a total straight face is like I stabbed people for a living. We were of course like what are you?

Speaker 2: 17:47

you know like what? And he was an Olympic fencer. I don't remember his last name, but we knew him as Tim the fencer, cause we remembered his first name. He's in your phone right now as tim the fencer, if you ever call him. And I just think, like how much, how much joy does he still get walking around telling people? That's what he does for a living. He stabs people for a living.

Speaker 1: 18:09

I love that. That's amazing. Yeah, I would absolutely use that if I was a fencer.

Speaker 2: 18:14

All right With that. Let's go on to track number seven. Your next pick, and it is Beautiful Pain, by Eminem featuring Sia.

Speaker 1: 18:22

Okay, so this is the pick of Lydia Jacoby and she is an American swimmer. She's a native of Anchorage, alaska, but went to the University of Texas. She actually won gold in the 100-meter breaststroke in 2020, as well as the silver in the 4x100 medley. She was just 17 at the time. She actually missed out on qualifying like just barely in the trials this summer and then withdrew from the finals of another competition. So she just missed out on the 100 meter defending her title and then withdrew from another final because it was just getting to be too much because she's only 21 now, from another final, because it was just getting to be too much because she's only 21 now and so very young but you know that's not super old for a swimmer. So she's going to be back, I think, when she's 25 and the Olympic games are in Los Angeles in 2028.

Speaker 1: 19:11

But I feel like Beautiful Pain is a apt example One, because if you've ever swam a really long time, that could be really painful. And you hear all the time about these Olympic swimmers and really the Olympic athletes in general. They really put their body through a lot in order to get to the top of their sport. So this is kind of the perfect, perfect song for any Olympian, but also, you know, considering she fell just short of qualifying this year, also pretty appropriate for her.

Speaker 2: 19:39

Yeah, sorry, I just like stuck onto the thought of like how difficult swimming is. I feel like I'm a pretty fit runner, but if you throw me in a pool and tell me to just swim a lap, I'm gone.

Speaker 1: 19:49

Like it's totally different.

Speaker 2: 19:50

yeah, You're fishing me out of the water. You know like-.

Speaker 1: 19:53

Yeah, it does not translate.

Speaker 2: 19:55

It does not translate. No, not at all. It's so difficult. So I have mad respect for people to not only swim in the water but like sprint in the water. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1: 20:06

Um yeah, the triathlon kind of gives you the sort of pecking order right because the shortest one is swimming exactly right, and then it's running and then it's by, it's on the bike right, so it's like that's kind of your progression. For how difficult is this?

Speaker 2: 20:20

Exactly, I love that. That's a good point. But I love the song. I'd actually not heard it and I just think it's perfect. I think it's a great pick for the Olympics and I really love her singing. You know, I'm standing in the flames and it's a beautiful kind of pain, setting fire to yesterday, to find the light, find the light, find the light. And I like that sentiment too, because you kind of hear a lot in sports like um to be a goldfish, you know, to kind of borrow a thing from ted lasso, like you gotta, you gotta forget what you did yesterday in a way and, like you know, be present and just kind of show up today. So really, really like this song.

Speaker 1: 21:20

This is a great pick all right, so let's get a little bit more aggressive with your next pick. It is Fight Night by Migos wave in California.

Speaker 2: 21:49

Of course, she won the 2020 US soccer young female player of the year award and the con conca calf women's under 2020 championship, which is incredible. So she is super talented. She's going to be on Team USA this year and, yeah, just a much more straightforward amp up song. One thing that has happened as I you know have now we're four years, four and a half years into the super awesome mix playlist or podcast is like we read lyrics a lot and now I've gotten much more tuned to listening to lyrics and I'm like this is a very aggressive song. So maybe, if you're just going to listen to this one, just just listen to kind of the beat of it and don't necessarily like get too much into the, into the actual lyrics, um, because it's it's very aggressive true, if you remove the lyrics, this one will still get you fired up.

Speaker 1: 22:35

But yeah, the lyrics maybe too aggressive. I was thinking you don't see a lot of like fighting at the olympics. Right, there is kind of a very there's a high level of sportsmanship, even for those who have just lost kind of their one shot or whatever gold I think there's. There's usually this high level of kind of mutual respect that you may not see in all competitions, but that's kind of the cool thing about the Olympics too.

Speaker 2: 23:02

All right, your next pick track number nine on our mix. It is Standby by Trip Lee featuring Hulvey.

Speaker 1: 23:09

All right. So for my last two picks I went to the well of USA Basketball. This is from the men's side. Okay, a little guy named Steph Curry. He has never gone to the Olympics. He's only played for the USA in the World Championships and he won a gold there a few years back. So this is his first Olympics and he's playing with LeBron James and really a fantastic USA team. Even at 40, lebron is still our most reliable player. It's kind of unbelievable, but it's going to be really fun to see him and Steph Curry compete together. Since the US started sending professionals in 1992, they've only lost the gold medal once in 2004. They are the favorite this year, but the NBA is such a global game now that there are so many teams with so many great basketball players on it, so it's really going to be fun to watch the men's basketball competition.

Speaker 1: 24:06

This is a song that I guess Steph Curry consistently listens to before games. It was this and another one, and they both have kind of a gospel feel to them. The other one is more kind of blatantly gospel and I forget the title of it, but it was like 10 minutes long and I was like I don't know. I don't know if we're going to put this on the mix right. This one does not have that vibe to it immediately. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying you can listen to the song and it's not like it's a blatant kind of Christian message out there, but it's anyway pretty cool. It'll get you fired up just on the beat alone and may even make you a better shooter, if it's working for Steph Curry.

Speaker 2: 24:46

Yeah, absolutely no, I really liked it. For me, the message I kind of got from this is you got to believe in just something bigger than you heading into competitions. I think that can help. It certainly helps me and I imagine it helps a lot of people as well. Just kind of having faith in something greater and whatever that is for you, that's great. And so I really liked the song song. I thought it was like really very kind of calming in a way it was. It was good, I liked it all right track.

Speaker 1: 25:13

10 you've got.

Speaker 2: 25:14

America has a problem by beyonce boy, wasn't she right, um all right? You know what?

Speaker 1: 25:21

name. Name 33 sammer. Okay, you're right.

Speaker 2: 25:26

You're right, I can't name any Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1: 25:29

Okay, back to the show. Back to the show.

Speaker 2: 25:33

All right. So this is also the sport of basketball, women's basketball to be specific. This is Asia Wilson. She is from South Carolina. She plays for Las Vegas Aces. She got gold as a team in the 2020 olympics and, just like a hugely successful career. Her, like you know, just accomplishments are a very, very long list. This is a a great fiance song, right, I mean, this is off of her most recent album, um just has a great beat and I believe here you know, she's got like the ego of like comparing herself to like the addictive power of cocaine, which I just love you know, just like a very, a very a very confident song, comparing yourself to a highly.

Speaker 1: 26:09

Just to clarify, sam or you love the the power there, not cocaine, correct?

Speaker 2: 26:14

That's correct, thank you, okay, just just the clarifications Yep, go ahead, oh gosh. But yeah, so a very confident position to take, you know, as a singer. But you know Beyonce's kind of earned it Like she's she's top of her game as well. So it's a. It's a really cool song and definitely could see this as an amp up one.

Speaker 1: 26:38

Yeah, asia Wilson is an amazing women's basketball player. Maybe, I mean, probably one of our you know one or two best players on you know in the world, and I feel like she's underrated even though she wins awards and championships and all this other stuff. I feel like there's so many other players who you hear about in the news much more consistently. So tune in to the US women's basketball team and you're going to see a lot of Asia Wilson and she's very likely going to lead us to a goal. So, yeah, definitely check that out.

Speaker 2: 27:11

Yeah, it really seems that way. All right, your last pick, it is I'm so Groovy by Future.

Speaker 1: 27:18

So we don't plan this at all, but this was actually a USA women's basketball pick as well. Nice, this is from Sabrina Ionescu. She is a point guard for the New York Liberty and also for Team USA, and she had a notable shootout with Steph Curry at last year's NBA All-Star Weekend in which she, uh, she almost beat him. So, uh, she's, she's an amazing basketball player and so, having her on the team along with Asia Wilson and we haven't even mentioned, you know, players like Brittany Griner, diana Taurasi like the US women dominate basketball, like as good as the men are, like the men are going to play some really competitive games. I don't think any of the women's games are going to be competitive. So they won bronze in 92, which is oddly when the men started kind of their dominant run, having sending, you know, sending NBA players. But since then the women have won every gold medal at the Olympics and, I think, by a pretty wide margin. So definitely tune in to see America's best, because they're going to put on a show in Paris.

Speaker 1: 28:26

And this is a great song, by the way. This will get you fired up too.

Speaker 2: 28:29

It absolutely will. I mean, it's such a heavy bass song, you know, I think Future's really good at that. I also saw that I think LeBron James listens to this pre-competition pre-game. So there you go. I mean, those are, like, some of the biggest names in basketball and in a sport that is global. So if, if, it works for them, it can definitely work for you as you, as you head into, in my case, like editing spreadsheets, all day long.

Speaker 1: 28:56

You're going to edit the hell out of that spreadsheet, I mean it has no idea what's coming.

Speaker 2: 29:00

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 29:00

It has no chance. It has no chance. All right, let's bring it home. Your last pick, it is Firestone by Kygo, featuring Conrad Sewell.

Speaker 2: 29:10

Yeah, so this is soccer, men's soccer. John Tolkien he is from New Jersey originally. He plays on the New York Red Bulls and he noted that he likes Kygo. It's like a pre-match music to listen to or an EDM artist to listen to. So I picked Firestone because I think the lyrics are very appropriate for the Olympics.

Speaker 2: 29:30

The chorus reads our hearts are like firestones and when they strike we feel the love Sparks will fly, they ignite our bones and when they strike we light up the world. And I think that that is like a really cool kind of sentiment. There. You know, you're competing in front of the world, you're competing against the world. It's like such a magical kind of moment. I love the Olympics, I think it really is. It's like the best of humanity coming together and we see the best in ourselves across the globe and celebrate our differences and kind of put aside all the strife and everything. So it's a magical thing. Again, I get chills every time I think about the Olympics and like what people go out and accomplish and how much work it takes to get there. So I think there's a really beautiful song off of my favorite album from Kygo his first one. So I'm very excited to watch all the things. I actually have a Peacock subscription because I'm just going to be streaming it nonstop. Basically, just for that reason they won me out.

Speaker 1: 30:29

I hate to say it, they won me out. I hate to say it, they won me out. They won me out. I mean olympic coverage right there. Uh, no, I'm really glad actually to hear that this. You know, you just got a category to pick from and you pick this song, because when I started listening to the song I was like man, this feels like a sammer pick. I can't believe you found an athlete that would pick this exact song, because I was like this.

Speaker 1: 30:49

It's got the slow build-up and everything like it's just I was.

Speaker 1: 30:52

I wrote sammer bait down in my notes because I was like yeah this is absolutely up his alley, um, but yeah, let's hope the men's soccer team has a better showing, um, at the olympics than they had at the top of america. Um, yeah, yeah, and know slightly different rules when it comes to the men's soccer competition. I think everyone, except for like two or three players, are under 23. So it's actually a younger crew than you would see at some of the like a World Cup or some of the global competitions. But in any case, yeah, I'm 100% with you. I love the Olympics. I think it's going to be such a fun two weeks. And, yeah, I mean, you know whatever you need to get yourself pumped up and whatever country you're rooting for, right, we literally have listeners all over the world. So hopefully, you know we've covered a few different countries here, but hopefully everybody, wherever they are, gets fired up.

Speaker 2: 31:46

Absolutely yeah, it's going to be fun.

Speaker 1: 31:49

Well, there you have it, Another super awesome mix for your collection, this time just in time for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. So enjoy that. Samra and I will be knee-deep in Olympic coverage, but also working on our next mix. Check us out on social media at Super Awesome Mix. But for Samra, this is matt and we'll see you next time.