The Paralympic flame has been extinguished, and sadly, the Games of Milano Cortina 2026 are over. However, there was still plenty of action on the final day of competition!
Thanks to your support of our Grande Finale 150 campaign, we went to Milano to watch the para ice hockey medal games, both of which were the icing on the cake (especially in terms of record attendance) of a great Paralympics.
Sports on today’s program:
- Para Alpine skiing
- Para cross-country
- Para ice hockey
Finally, the Closing Ceremony in Cortina at the curling stadium may have been in a small venue, but it included beautiful and poignant performances around the theme of memories.
Thanks so much for listening, and until next time, keep the flame alive!
TRANSCRIPT
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Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympics-Day 9
Jill Jaracz: [00:00:00] bonjourno, and welcome to Keep the Flame Alive, day nine, coverage of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games. I’m your host, Jill Jaracz, coming to you from train 9 7 6 3 heading to Venicia yesterday, and we’re on it. Thanks to you. Listeners,
Alison Brown: thank you very much everyone for getting us on the train there and getting us on the train home.
We are on the train home. Yes. At this point. So yes, we’ve seen the hockey games and the, uh, closing ceremony is [00:01:00] on. We’ve got that kind of one eye on that. While we are recording the first half of the show.
Jill Jaracz: Right, exactly. So, uh, we’re also having varying levels of connectivity because YouTube is now starting to scroll and it’s gonna be alright.
I don’t remember if we forgot anything yesterday. I
Alison Brown: don’t think we forgot. I think we were very efficient yesterday.
Jill Jaracz: That’s good. That’s good. culture.
Alison Brown: You wanna talk about the mini pan? Oh
Jill Jaracz: my. Oh my. Okay. So yeah, of course. I wanna talk about the mini panton. Okay. That was a find.
Alison Brown: Okay. So there’s a whole Panto Tony story in my family.
We don’t need to get into it, but Poni is a running joke in my family. So whenever there’s a Panton involved, Jill likes to point it out to me. So then today in the train station, we found many Pantone’s that were officially licensed and. Labeled for 2026 and for the Olympics and Paralympics and they were on sale, but I did not have room in my bag to purchase, said Pan Tony’s.
We’ll [00:02:00] have to see if the store is open when we get back to the train station. Yes, or if it is open tomorrow morning prior to my departure. ’cause I will be at the train station pretty early. So we’ll see how this goes because I would. Now that we’ve discussed it extensively, like to bring home a mini penoni
Jill Jaracz: and it was like 40% off or something.
Hold on. I’m gonna have
Alison Brown: to
Jill Jaracz: pull
Alison Brown: up up the tickets. It was 70% off.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, 70. It’s steal. It’s a steal.
Alison Brown: It was like a, a euro 50 maybe.
Jill Jaracz: Okay. I gotta pull up my train tickets ’cause the conductor’s coming. Oops. I have them here.
Bueno.
Alison Brown: Do you have both
Jill Jaracz: of them? Yeah, I have both of them. Okay.
Okay. That, that’s it. Alright. We are officially on the train. That’s good. And uh, Milo and Tina are Bopp around on the screen with a dj, so this is is exciting.
Alison Brown: I’m past you. I’m a [00:03:00] little, I’m a little ahead of you on my
Jill Jaracz: Alright
Alison Brown: flag. I’m up to the flag. Yeah. The flags
Jill Jaracz: are
Alison Brown: coming in.
Jill Jaracz: Well, we’ll find out. Can I go live?
Can I go live? ’cause this is gonna be annoying.
Alison Brown: Yeah. You’re not gonna miss anything.
Jill Jaracz: I can tell you that I, yeah, I know, because I have the guide open too. We have a, a media guide for this and, and yeah, for
Alison Brown: once they actually gave us a guide. You know, that’s not true. They always give us a guide. The question is, can we find it
Jill Jaracz: right?
So I did find it because I eventually found the guide for the opening ceremonies. It was, and it was quite detailed, so I was really bummed. I didn’t have that. Um, let’s get back to my notes here. Um, so Pan Andoni on the list, we had a very easy train ride here.
Alison Brown: We did. It was just boom, boom on time. Nobody got sick.
Jill Jaracz: That always a good thing,
Alison Brown: always a bonus. And there was a delay in the train, but Minor didn’t affect us in the sense of we got to the hockey game more than on time.
Jill Jaracz: Exactly.
Alison Brown: We got to see Rob Snow.
Jill Jaracz: That was great.
Alison Brown: Was, which was always good. We got to see [00:04:00] Brad
Jill Jaracz: comment. He commentated both. Games on your feed.
So
Alison Brown: that was nice. So if you heard him, he was very excited to do it. I’ll tell you that much. Yeah. Oh yeah. We got to see, uh, Brad Roethlisberger in person.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: Which was lovely.
Jill Jaracz: Awesome. It’s nice. All the, the officials in charge were all dressed nicely in suits.
Alison Brown: They were and he was very excited to be here or there now.
Yes. ’cause we’re now the, we are no longer there. We’re here.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: I don’t know where we are.
Jill Jaracz: We’re, we’re heading to Brescia.
Alison Brown: Okay.
Jill Jaracz: Alright.
Alison Brown: At 193 kilometers per hour.
Jill Jaracz: Good. Oh,
Alison Brown: 198.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. I know. They, they broadcast that on a, on a screen. It’s nice. Um, they did play the para ice hockey song
Alison Brown: and I did get to hear it.
And it was, it was catchy.
Jill Jaracz: It is catchy because it works for other sports too. So I started seeing a para cross country. Do, do do I had, I had, you had all kinds of words for wheelchair
Alison Brown: curling and
Jill Jaracz: para cross country wheelchair curling, throw the stones. Wheel check and gets [00:05:00] into your bones, so
Alison Brown: you gotta, you gotta copyright all these versions of the song, that’s for sure.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. And then I could get yelled at again for taking copyright, you know, infringing on somebody’s trademark.
Alison Brown: This is true.
Jill Jaracz: Anyway. Um, as the International Olympic Committee does, the IPC also does athletes council elections at, uh, games. So we have the results. So those, our Declan farmer was in the running for this.
So, uh, the new members of the Athletes Council will be Adam Hall, who is a para alpine skier from New Zealand. Yeah. On the podium today,
Alison Brown: go Silver Ferns
Jill Jaracz: Spoil. Spoiler alert, Tyler McGregor, who is a Canadian pair of ice hockey player. And then we had a tie for the third slot that went to Declan Farmer and Mia Larson’s Faberg from Norway.
She’s a wheelchair curler. So what happens is in the event of a tie for the last position, it will remain vacant until the Athlete’s Council selects a candidate from those who have tied. [00:06:00]
Alison Brown: So we won’t find out until the council meets.
Jill Jaracz: Yep. And you guys gotta get ready because we’re gonna have Colin shows this week.
Alison Brown: Yeah. So not only are we gonna be on the train, but we’re gonna be ready talking to you. Well live ish. We’re gonna record it and then air it. But you can talk to us live when we’re actually recording them.
Jill Jaracz: I don’t, I don’t even know what you said, but, uh, you will be, we have unfortunately do this
Alison Brown: to call in. So if you have scheduling issues. We make ourselves available twice
Jill Jaracz: exactly. Uh, Allison will be on Tuesday, March 17th, eight to 9:00 PM Eastern. I will be on Wednesday, March 18th, eight to 9:00 PM Eastern as well.
And we will have a link to the studio in the show notes, and it likes Chrome. For your browser, just saying
Alison Brown: for whatever reason.
Jill Jaracz: Um,
Alison Brown: but yeah, I’m excited to talk to everybody and hear what they thought of the Paralympics here. I, uh, we had people call in after the Olympics, but we will still [00:07:00] take Olympic
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: Discussion as well. Yes, anything Milano, Cortina related and honestly anything that’s kind of up in the zeitgeist right now. So if you’ve got LA issues. That have come up because LA didn’t stay quiet. No. During Milano, of course,
Jill Jaracz: what is up with all these games who’ve just gotta encroach on everything?
Give him, give the next one.
Alison Brown: A little space.
Jill Jaracz: That’s right.
Alison Brown: But yeah, so all, all comers are welcome.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. So we are looking forward to talking to you this week. Someone’s got a call. Um, we have results ’cause there was still competition today and para alpine. It was a weird day on the mountain.
Alison Brown: It was, it was very foggy.
And it was snowing and the conditions became very complicated for a lot of these athletes.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. And it would be clear, ’cause we could watch the feed in the hockey venue, so into a whole vat of fog
Alison Brown: just disappear along the way.
Jill Jaracz: And then sometimes it would just clear up for them. So whoever got lucky, that’s, that’s really [00:08:00] kind of how the chips fell.
Um, in the men’s visually impaired class. Oh my gosh. I’m sorry. I didn’t see this. This had to be. So difficult.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: With, uh, if the, the weather’s constantly changing. If you’re a guide,
Alison Brown: well, you’re not seeing Johannes Agner on this list, so, you know, it was a rough day.
Jill Jaracz: Oh wow. So gold went to Giacomo, eg. Noli from Italy.
Uh, he has five medals in five races. Silver went to Michel Gold from Poland, and uh, bronze went to Cali e Erickson from Canada.
Alison Brown: So I thought this was very funny of our friend, our other friend, Giacomo Bertoli, our other friend named Giacomo. Um, he said it was very hard race for everybody, especially because it was so foggy nobody could see anything.
Not even because we are visually impaired, but because of the fog. I love some good black humor
Jill Jaracz: in the men’s slalom [00:09:00] standing ’cause Yes, this is the last race and it’s only the men’s ’cause women did their slalom yesterday. Uh, gold went to Alex Boogie from Russia, silver went to Adam Hall from New Zealand.
Alison Brown: I thought it was interesting. Boogie had some comments about how happy he was to hear his national anthem, and we’ve talked about this a lot with the Russians and how and how funny the Russians are coming in, right as we’re saying this.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. On the screen they’re coming on the screen with the flags
Alison Brown: and how complicated this story is.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And it’s not quite sure, you
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Alison Brown: Exactly. I have no idea.
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Jill Jaracz: Coca zero. Coca zero, yes. Um, yeah, but it’s been complicated having Russia here. They have done very well on the metal table overall. And uh, it was interesting ’cause I saw this race as well and Adam Hall.
New Zealand was leading for a long time, and then Alex Boogie came in and Adam Hall was not happy, not happy to get regulated to Silver. Robin Kush was like, Hey, it’s all right. Give him, give him Adam A. Little pat, and just like it’s gonna be okay.
Alison Brown: Now we’re going 219 kilometers per hour.
Jill Jaracz: It’s a high speed train.
Alison Brown: It is a high speed train, isn’t it?
Jill Jaracz: So, uh, Robin Koch’s coaches.
Alison Brown: Yeah. Robin Koch’s coaches said that if Robin won a medal, that they would dye their hair blonde. Now Robin plans to hold them to this, but they couldn’t do it tonight because the the closing ceremony and they [00:11:00] can’t do it tomorrow ’cause they’re leaving.
So this may get delayed and I bet his coaches are hoping that he’ll forget.
Jill Jaracz: I doubt it.
Alison Brown: I doubt he will forget. He seems like the kind of guy who’s gonna make. This happen
Jill Jaracz: and I think he should make them die. It four times, like it grows out. You dye it again, grows out
Alison Brown: one for each medal.
Jill Jaracz: Exactly. Exactly.
And in the sitting category, gold went to Jaron Camp Schroer from Netherlands. Silver went to Yesper Pison from Norway and bronze went to, uh, to Tishi Suzuki from Japan.
Alison Brown: So 18 skiers finished this race. Hmm. 16 skiers did not finish this race. Wow. That’s how rough the conditions were.
Jill Jaracz: Wow. And it, it’s really rough for the, the sitting skiers sometimes.
Yeah. It’s, it gets really ruddy and they just, uh, get lost in stock.
Alison Brown: Right. There was just fall after fall after fall that we were seeing on the feed. So we know that that surface was not. Smoothless glass and, and making it easy to [00:12:00] carve. So it was making a big mess today.
Jill Jaracz: And, uh, camp Schroer said, Italy has always been my favorite country to compete in and to have the games here is even better.
To be able to show off exactly what I’m capable of and win three golds is special and something I will remember forever.
Alison Brown: I think a lot of the athletes feel the same way.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, I mean they prob, some of them probably come and compete in Italy a lot, so that’s really nice that they get a place they’re familiar with, especially if they were in Beijing and everything for Beijing was pretty foreign,
Alison Brown: right?
Jill Jaracz: So to to be around. And so many Dutch people came down. It.
Alison Brown: There was a big orange wave.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: Almost as terrifying as that orange wave we saw outside the train station during the Olympics. But I always remind myself of that nice Dutchman who told me that they mean no harm.
Jill Jaracz: Right? That is correct. Over in para cross country skiing, we, it’s like marathon day.
So, uh, everyone was doing [00:13:00] the 20 K race for the sitting class. Gold went to Korea’s, Kim Ji Silver went to Germany’s. Ana Vicar. Anya Vicar and Bronze went to Oxana Masters from the USA.
Alison Brown: Yeah. And this is Kim ji’s first.
Jill Jaracz: Incredible,
Alison Brown: which is crazy. And uh, Kendall Gretch, our Kendall Gretch finished fourth, so she did quite well today as well.
And Oxana masters was asked what is next for her? And I love this answer because she said quote, I’m looking forward to my couch. I’m not gonna lie. I love my couch. It’s amazing and I miss it. It’s the small things in life and a lot of coffee. And then she’s mentioned that the biggest thing, uh, is going to be getting married with Aaron, meeting Aaron Pike, her boyfriend, and they have been engaged.
So I guess there is a wedding date. Set. Guess so. And, and they will be making it official, which is very exciting.
Jill Jaracz: That’s good. Uh, in the Men’s 20 kilometer sitting class, gold went to Russia’s Ivan Gold Leboff, and, [00:14:00] uh, silver went to Mao Jung. From China and Bronze went to Giuseppe Rome from Italy.
Alison Brown: Yeah. And Giuseppe Romee had a very interesting, uh, comment about saying it was an extremely difficult race, but he wasn’t referring to the conditions.
He said, probably one of the most important and complex of my sporting career. The idea being that being at the Paralympics just makes it harder. To do any race because of the weight of that. And then you have the conditions on top of it that were tricky.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Because the, uh, the cross country skiers, were also dealing with this very odd conditions today that were shifting quickly.
Jill Jaracz: Right. And, and seeing some of this on the feeds where the only snow is what the course is. That’s, it’s gotta be really frustrating.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: Ah, so, uh
Alison Brown: oh, and speaking of Aaron Pike, he did not start today.
Jill Jaracz: Yes,
Alison Brown: we don’t know why, but he did not start,
Jill Jaracz: um, uh, goov [00:15:00] said, well, he was put in 20 years of experience to work today, and he said he had a good start in from the beginning of the race, and he is like, I’m just gonna keep the same speed.
And that’s what did
Alison Brown: it. That’s, that’s how it works. You know, if you go out fast and you can keep it up, good for you.
Jill Jaracz: In the Women’s 20 k, free standing gold went to USA and CH Stan. Sidney Peterson. Silver went to VDA Nelson from Norway, and Bronze went to Alexandra Anova from. Ukraine and, and Sydney was completely shocked that she won.
Alison Brown: I don’t know why she’s been doing a heck of a job at this Paralympics.
Jill Jaracz: I know, I know. But she said this is one of her favorite races to do and she made sure she had the energy for it. Um, Alexandra from, uh. Gets one gold, one silver, and three bronze at the Oh, that’s a whole
Alison Brown: collection.
Jill Jaracz: I know. And she said she achieved the impossible for herself and owes it to her country and the warriors fighting.
Oh wow. So that really, Nielsen said she just didn’t have [00:16:00] enough left in the tank today, but she did apparently have enough to talk about her fellow teammates. It
Alison Brown: was from the relays
Jill Jaracz: yesterday. Yes, exactly. So we’re gonna quote this one ’cause I, I don’t want to, uh, not lose the.
Alison Brown: The feeling
Jill Jaracz: behind it. Yes, exactly.
She said, quote, I always say, said to myself that the race isn’t over until you cross the finish line. So yesterday I was quite angry at my teammate, uh, Thomas Al, who just took the victory for granted. So we have learned a lot from Y or we have learned from you yesterday, and we spoke a lot about it on the evening meeting.
So yeah. So Norway won bronze in that relay.
Alison Brown: But they were leading. And Thomas Axel let it slip away, it seems like, or at least in her opinion. Yes. That he let it slip away.
Jill Jaracz: Yes, indeed. And then in the men’s 20 kilometer, free standing gold went to Wang Chen Yang from China. Silver went to Huang Li Jing from China and Bronze went to.
Lou bin from [00:17:00] China.
Alison Brown: Yes. So Wang, uh, the gold medalist commented and called it a milestone for the Chinese team that encouraged more engagement in the sport. And this I loved, it was unexpected to win all three medals, even for us. That’s,
Jill Jaracz: oh man. But I wonder, I wonder how different sports in China. Mm, I have it because, you know, I, I would imagine it’s similar everywhere where you have sports that get a lot of attention and sports that don’t get a lot of attention.
And I wonder if cross country is one of those in China and now that they’ve done so well.
Alison Brown: Right. And you have to figure, cross country is not going to be a sport that is well known in the cities because there’s no place to, even if you get snow, you have to go outside the city to participate.
Jill Jaracz: Just ski down the street,
Alison Brown: my guess.
Jill Jaracz: And the Women’s 20 kilometer free visually impaired class Gold. Went [00:18:00] to Anastasia Bagian from uh, Russia Gold. Went to Anastasia Bagian from Russia. Silver went to Simona Kova from Zea and Bronze went to Wang Hui from China.
Alison Brown: So baggy said it’s a difficult race, but our service team did a great job, so our skis were very fast.
So it definitely pays to have good wax techs. I know when the conditions are so poor,
Jill Jaracz: we gotta get that up on the list.
Alison Brown: I know.
Jill Jaracz: Because wax is everything. It’s amazing. Just because when we started. The podcast. I didn’t realize how, you know, wax texts. Yeah. But
Alison Brown: crucial.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: Critical.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. USA and Stans Jake Atol
Alison Brown: woo woo.
Jill Jaracz: And, uh, silver went to Alexon Kazak from Ukraine, and bro went to Anthony Nikon from France,
Alison Brown: so over to Para hockey where we were today. Yes,
Jill Jaracz: yes.
Alison Brown: We got two [00:19:00] games.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah.
Alison Brown: And both were home dingers. Oh God. Let’s just say both. Were
Jill Jaracz: home
Alison Brown: dingers. It was
Jill Jaracz: such a great day at ice hockey for many reasons, not just ’cause we got there.
Which, thank you again. Uh, not just because the. Uh, games were well attended. There were several thousand, like about 4,000 they thought for
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: The bronze medal game. And then at the gold medal game it was
Alison Brown: 10,000. 10,700 plus.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And
Alison Brown: which was a record for a para ice hockey game.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. Which broke the record that had been broken earlier in the tournament.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: So it was, and it just looked full. The, the seats were almost all full. What wasn’t full were the, the suites.
Alison Brown: Right.
Jill Jaracz: There were a couple suites that had people in them, but not all of it. I think that’s where the, uh, lower numbers came in from, uh, what capacity is.
Alison Brown: Mm-hmm.
Jill Jaracz: But it was so full and so loud,
Alison Brown: very partisan, uh, in the gold medal game for [00:20:00] Canada.
Jill Jaracz: We’ll get there
Alison Brown: and very partisan for the bronze medal game for Chea.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Uh, in the run up to the. The puck drop when they’re trying to get the crowd excited, they have a little thing segment. They call my heart, my country.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: And you have to show your flag. And they have a whole flag song that goes with it.
I like it.
Alison Brown: It is, it is catchy and people get excited ’cause they brought the flags and they wanna wave the flags.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. So, uh, bronze medal game check ya. Ooh, whoa. That sounded scary.
Alison Brown: I know. Anything that goes boom, when you’re on a very fast moving train that now no longer has a kilometer showing,
Jill Jaracz: so final score was China three Chea two,
Alison Brown: and it was as close as it sounds.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And Chea got off to a good start.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: And got a couple goals early. And China came back with one and things were really [00:21:00] tight in the second period. And then Czechia kind of fell apart
a
Jill Jaracz: little bit.
Alison Brown: Yes. A little lots of mistakes. You know, you started seeing them making a pass and then the other player wouldn’t be where he was supposed to be or making a pass and it would just slip away.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: You know, a lot of small, small mistakes that add up very quickly when you’re playing against someone like China who’s gonna take advantage of that.
Jill Jaracz: And the, there was one moment in particular for me where I went, Ooh, this is, this is like a turning moment is when a checky got a breakout and the man with the puck, instead of taking it all the way into the goal himself, dropped it back for his partner and there was no partner there, nobody there. And it was just like that.
That was a theme. For both teams for a while, like yes, we’re not in position, we’re not getting there, and they’re obviously, they’re not as fast as USA and Canada, but there still seem to [00:22:00] be a lack of hustle.
Alison Brown: Right. That they’re just not as disciplined as you was saying Canada. Mm-hmm. They’re not as tight.
They don’t have that. I know exactly where every player on the ice is, you know? Mm-hmm. Some of that hockey sense.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: They’re not quite there yet.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And uh, then in the third period China said, oh, if we don’t get this done, we’re not gonna get the bronze. And then,
Alison Brown: then they turned it up another notch.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
And got a couple of gold.
Alison Brown: Yes. Actually. I think I deserve a penalty for that one.
Jill Jaracz: Two minutes in the box.
Alison Brown: That’s it.
Jill Jaracz: Um, so good bronze medal game, then it got better.
Alison Brown: It did. Gold medal game was unbelievable. And the, well, we’ll start with the score because the score is actually kind of a lie.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. It doesn’t sound as, as big of a, a, a differential as it is.
Alison Brown: Yeah. So the USA did win again, fifth time in a row. Uh, [00:23:00] six to two over Canada, but it was much tighter than that.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: I mean, one of those was an empty net goal.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: And then the last goal was also a bit, a bit of a gimme
Jill Jaracz: mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: Towards, towards the end. So,
Jill Jaracz: wait a second. I have to pause this. Are you seeing, I’m, I’m a little behind, but are you seeing this woman who’s dressed in Saran Wrap?
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: Wow. This is something on that.
She’s
Alison Brown: the ice queen.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, that’s right. That’s right. I’m not there on my, my other thing, but yes. I just saw a lot of Saran wrap.
Alison Brown: Well, she’s probably not cold wrapped up like that.
Jill Jaracz: Probably not.
Alison Brown: She’s like that, uh, the, the Winter Queen from the Narnia movies.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She does look like that.
Okay, so back to hockey. USA win up early one. Nothing. And, uh, Canada tied it in the first period on a power play. And
Alison Brown: yeah, there was much more power play action in this game than in the bronze bundle game.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And, and USA was in the box a lot more. [00:24:00] I will say that. Especially Declan Farmer was in the box a couple of times.
Alison Brown: Yeah. What was up with this today, Declan?
Jill Jaracz: I don’t know,
Alison Brown: young
Jill Jaracz: man. Well, and I’m sure that Canada, Canada, they were all
Alison Brown: over him.
Jill Jaracz: Yes, exactly. And, and the coach said later in, in the mix zone, one of the coaches was talking and saying that, oh, we know Canada is gonna try to. Figure out how to keep Declan from doing his thing because he scored so many more goals in the next highest player throughout the whole tournament.
And the, the coach said, oh, we needed other people to step up. Like hopefully Jack would step up or like Brody Roble. And, and they did, they did. Jack Wallace got a hat trick and one assist. Um, Declan Farmer got a goal and an assist. Um. I will say there was a point, uh, this really was a, a Canada audience.
Yes. There were a lot of Canadians there.
Alison Brown: Yes. And I’m not even sure how much it was Canadians as just people cheering for Canada [00:25:00] or against the us
Jill Jaracz: Right.
Alison Brown: It, it felt very heavily Canadian.
Jill Jaracz: There, there was a small USA contingent and there was a part in the, a point in the second period where the US. Crowd started chanting USA and Canada.
Started cheering
Alison Brown: and just drowned them
Jill Jaracz: out. Drowned them out with a tone. That made me feel like that was so much, this game was so much more. Mm. Than just a hockey game.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: It,
Alison Brown: well, I think the, the Canadian fans were sick of losing to the US this time around. ’cause remember the women lost.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah.
Alison Brown: The men lost.
Jill Jaracz: Right.
Alison Brown: And now, you know, final number three. And it wasn’t looking good.
Jill Jaracz: No. But I also felt it on like a geopolitical level too. I really That too. Like hearkened back to Miracle on Ice. Yeah. Feeling what, what that may have felt like in the stadium. Just because of all that the US has done to Canada. Yes. In the last year, what the US is doing now to the [00:26:00] world.
Uh, it’s just not, I, I felt some frustration and yeah. And we’ve been in this bubble. We’re gonna take a little war break here. We’ve been in this bubble for a while and we, even though I’ve been reading the news, I don’t really know what we’re going home to.
Alison Brown: Fair enough. Yeah,
Jill Jaracz: that’s
very
Alison Brown: true.
Jill Jaracz: So that’s a weird feeling to be in.
And I get the State Department emails right, and there have been protests. So it’s one of those like not quite understanding where,
Alison Brown: where the rest of the world’s head is that
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. And, and knowing that we’re responsible for what’s going on now.
Alison Brown: Yeah.
Jill Jaracz: That’s, it’s not a good feeling.
Alison Brown: It’s not a good feeling.
Agreed.
Jill Jaracz: But what is a good feeling is the US won their fifth goal. They hate to say that now. It’s probably not a good place to say, Hey, take, take your Canada. Cheers.[00:27:00]
But, uh, you, uh, yeah. Canada just lost their way, I would say in period three. Okay. It was, it was one of those, and we had talked with Rob ahead of time and he, you know, said yes. I’m, you know, I call this not biased, but when you look at what’s going on, the US is just head and shoulders above all of the teams.
And one of the things he talked about a little bit was the fact that the US has more resources in that we’ve got the US Olympic and Paralympic committee. Canada’s are still separated. Don’t know. I, I have no idea if they’ve ever talked about coming together, but I think the resources that happen when, when the.
Two, uh, national CL committees come together. ‘
Alison Brown: cause you’re not, you’re saving money mm-hmm. In combining forces. And when you are spending and raising, you know, ’cause this is all, uh, [00:28:00] donations.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: The donations go that much further.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Yeah.
Alison Brown: When you can combine forces like that, so it makes a lot of sense.
Jill Jaracz: So, uh, yeah. Well, it’ll be interesting to see how Canada tries to regroup after this. Mm-hmm. And if they can, I mean, uh, when Josh Pauls came through the mix zone, he was talking a little bit about, uh, finally winning in Vancouver. When that was kind of like, well, that was the, the last time. The first time the US won again.
Alison Brown: Right.
Jill Jaracz: And that started the five pea dynasty. Guess they’re gonna call it that now on the, on the team USA front. But, uh.
All we’re, we’re getting off going to board the train ’cause we just made a stop.[00:29:00]
But yeah, it’ll be interesting to see. What Canada’s response is to this and if there’s more investment or more practice or, or different, uh, uh, kind of a mind, it’s a tough road for them.
Alison Brown: Right. And you know, having lost all three gold medal gains Yes. Cannot feel good for hockey Canada.
Jill Jaracz: No.
Alison Brown: And has to be in incredibly frustrating and especially.
The, the women’s game because the women generally, when the USA and Canada meet, Canada definitely has the upper hand.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: Um, but the men’s game and then the, the frustration of constantly being the silver medalist behind the US and the on the para side. Just must be eating away at that organization and trying to figure out how, what do we need to do?
I mean, obviously more money, but where do you put it? Where do you put your resources? Mm-hmm. Where do you put your effort and what does that look like, and what special sauce does the US have besides more money? Mm-hmm. Because more money [00:30:00] can only get you so far.
Jill Jaracz: Right.
Alison Brown: But what’s that special sauce that have managed.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: To keep them on top for so long.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. And, and this is a team who just the, the speed, the attitude of going for it. At least in the beginning. I just noticed a huge difference from watching the bronze medal game. Yes. In that. Team, USA was. And in Canada too. They were going after everything. Like this was all life and death.
So
Alison Brown: I think Saran wrap lady is done.
Jill Jaracz: I think so too.
Alison Brown: They’re gonna be baking some cookies, so they need some of that Saran wrap.
Jill Jaracz: I see. I see. Oh yeah, we still got the, uh, closing ceremony on too. Um, and that does it for competition.
Alison Brown: Yeah,
Jill Jaracz: it was amazing.
Alison Brown: It was great.
Jill Jaracz: A great way to end, I gotta say that. Yeah.
They really, I mean for the IPC, they have to be on cloud nine with how much this game [00:31:00] impacted attendance and I, I don’t know what they showed on TV here, but their YouTube channels just been going
Alison Brown: wild,
Jill Jaracz: wild, wild, like you, you talked about yesterday. And to have that impact is really, really good.
Even though I understand that the US feeds not that great, although Taylor Lipset, who we talked to a long, long time ago now, yes. He was doing commentary, so if you got the game in the us, comment, commentary would’ve been good. Commentary would’ve been good. So let us know. Alright, we’ve got closing ceremony, which is on now.
They are in the curling stadium. For this in Corina.
Alison Brown: And it’s amazing because it looks like this stage is enormous, but we know it can’t be.
Jill Jaracz: No.
Alison Brown: It can be the sides of basically surround and that’s it. And yet they are utilizing everything,
Jill Jaracz: right? Yes. And they put the, the first number had like 70 dancers on there.
Alison Brown: Yes. And [00:32:00] it had those amazing light up ropes. Such a simple technique yet was. Very, very effective on camera.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes.
Alison Brown: So, and now we’ve got more dancing with a mix of able-bodied and disabled dancers, which is great.
Jill Jaracz: Oh, good. We’ve got it right here going now too.
So the title of the ceremony is Italian Souvenir.
Alison Brown: Oh,
Jill Jaracz: conceived by, is
Alison Brown: she supposed to be a little bocce chocolate
Jill Jaracz: maybe? Uh, not that far on the PDF. So it’s conceived by, uh, Angela Bono and Francesco Paolo Conello [00:33:00] of Costa Diva Art and Show. And, uh, what they’ve done is they’ve taken a lot of, uh.[00:34:00]
I am gonna stop this ’cause it’s a right ear that keeps going. Okay. Oh wait, now it’s back. Okay. So, uh, the first section was Dreams Become Memories, and that’s, uh, some video montages. And then we get into something called Generations, which is, uh, the first act. It’s got this, uh, Durgan talk mock, who’s a solo performer with Cirque Ddu Soleil.
And he talks about, uh, as his dancing and performance goes on, uh, he is conveying the paralympic values with the energy and spirit of the athlete. So, uh, and we are looking at generations. So you have a, a younger woman named Sophia. Who is embodying every child’s dream and they revitalizes athlete’s strength and transform this experience into a forward momentum.
And that kind of plays out in in ropes, electric ropes,
Alison Brown: which were fantastic.
Jill Jaracz: They were very, very cool. And they had, they, they. Kind of made a canvas. They showed the pictograms on the ground [00:35:00] and uh,
Alison Brown: they made it into, uh, squares that they were inside of. They used it to then create the Italian flag at one point.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: And reel each other in and wrap each other up with them. It was very effective.
Jill Jaracz: Very, very cool. Uh, then of course the Italian flag led into the flag and National Anthem portion of the show, and then we had a longish parade of flags. And volunteer recognition.
Alison Brown: The volunteer recognition was very long.
It took a lot of time. They did a video, which they usually do.
Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: And it was the same, you know, show all the volunteers in all the different places. Mm-hmm. Which is great, but it was quite long. Right.
Jill Jaracz: Because they always bring out like three volunteers and put them on stage and hand over, give the flowers and stuff like that.
Flowers, yes. Uh, on behalf of everyone. And then the flags came in. And, uh, now we’re working on, uh,
[00:36:00] so the, uh, the snow crystal portion started off with a woman playing a cello, and that woman’s name is Form Sonoff, and she’s the artist who composed the soundtrack for the ceremony. Hmm. And then we start, it
Alison Brown: looks great in Saran wrap.
Jill Jaracz: No, I think that’s a snow queen. That’s a different person. Oh, okay. This is somebody who actually.
Uh, well, she’s got a dress on, but wasn’t looking the same way. Oh,
Alison Brown: okay.
Jill Jaracz: Too bad. So then we had, uh, you know, you’re building the mountains and we’re talking about the mountains taking center stage and, uh, a cycle of life. And then you’ve got, uh, snow and geometric snapes shapes coming in. And there’s pyramid I, which I did not see this pyramid being built.
Of like snow cubes. Well, not snow, but they were white cubes.
Are you laughing at? Who’s laughing? Must be a good [00:37:00] video. So, and then it all, uh, all of that dissolves into a chow chow Corina postcard projected on the floor. Which is very cute.
Alison Brown: Yes. You, you are not a fan of floor projection. Floor mapping.
Jill Jaracz: I mean, I do like it when it’s effective. I don’t like it when it’s the center, center stage.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta have a, a fine line between that. And now we’re kind of in the flag handover ceremony portion and the official speeches, which I’m okay with not seeing. ’cause I’m sure it’s gonna be. Thank you Milana. Cortina. You have done a wonderful job. You’re the best
Alison Brown: ever.
Jill Jaracz: I, I don’t know about that.
They have done a really good job. The, the sports were good. Yeah. The competition was good. Save Paris Snowboard cross, which the athletes were great. The course was not great.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: And the fact that we had snow issues a lot here. And that’s, uh, some, I would say transportation, but
Alison Brown: [00:38:00] that’s not for the athletes
Jill Jaracz: or for the spectators.
Yes, exactly. That’s our issues. Yes. Um, so now we’re gonna see a, uh, performance by, uh, French Alps called Transcendence.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: And I think we will pause and come back after we’ve watched a little more of the ceremony.
We are back from part two. We have passed Verona. Recognize that platform. So we spent so much time there and, uh, we are arriving in Vincenzo. Yes,
well, but, uh, the closing ceremony is winding down there on the grand finale, which is basically some house music and light show. Going on Flashy. Flashy, yes. Yes. And uh, it might be exciting. It didn’t sound as exciting when it first started because people were like, oh, okay. I guess we’re doing a house music thing.
Yeah. House music. It definitely was not exciting. ’cause I have [00:39:00] the sound way down. Mm-hmm. So it just is the light show and a guy jumping around. Yeah. And I had the sound way down as well, but uh, I did hear not. Much response down. So, uh, where we left off it was the handover, the big handover, which our media guide says there is a separate media guide for the French Alps handover.
Go find it. Which I could not find. And then come to realize that the handover is a video. Yes. Oh my gosh. Here we go again. I miss the actual handover ceremony. Yeah. Things right. Well, they, they do pass the fly. And this one, the, the, there was a little performance of a spoken word, national anthem as they raised the French flag up.
Alison Brown: Yeah, whatever. Yeah. So that wasn’t much. And then they showed a video. So what can we expect from French Alps? 2030 spoken word and not [00:40:00] much else? Uh, no. Different mountains. Okay. Not as craggy. Um, athletes competing by themselves. Yes. And drums. Okay. So that’s gonna be super exciting if you like drums.
Jill Jaracz: Speaking of drums, there was drum theater. I forgot, we forgot to mention, I know. In, in, uh, the hockey venue today. So the, the break entertainment was a hockey, it was a hockey theater, it was a drum theater. What do you think hockey theater would be? Oh, get over here and let me punch your teeth out. Gold metal.
Alison Brown: So, and it was, it was the lovely drumming from some young people. Yes. And they were, they were drumming on unconventional items. Yes. So it was like, there was barrels and Yeah, lots of rain barrel type things. Yeah. Garbage cans kind of thing. Yeah. So it was, it was cool. They were having fun. They brought the energy.
Jill Jaracz: I took videos. I enjoyed that. My energy is waning. I’ll be honest. I know, I know. We gotta very sleepy. We have to find a second. Well, if you’re [00:41:00] getting rocked to sleep by the train. I know it’s true. This is what you asked for listeners, something to put us to sleep,
but you never know if we fall asleep. But keep talking. What would come out of our mouth possibly come out? It cannot be good as I’ll tell you that right now. Yeah, exactly. So the, the French Ellp handover ceremony, uh, lame. Yes. Understatement. Um, and then I, I tried to go back to what they did for the Olympics, which involved many performers.
I mean, if you cut down those performers and did what Italy did with two dancers, I know, which is very dramatic, you would have budget to do a para of handover ceremony. Uh, anyway, uh, then we went into the, uh, official speeches, blah, blah, blah. Everything is wonderful, blah, blah, blah. Mm-hmm. That was great.
Greatest ever. I don’t know if he said greatest ever. He did. Oh, did he? [00:42:00] Uh, he did. Well, in a way, this was the greatest ever winter Paralympics. In terms of numbers, he was saying numbers. Yes. So biggest great. Most women. Most NPCs, yes. Most athletes. So in a big way that was a big success. Yes. For them. So, okay, good.
Uh, then we have one last big segment of, uh, show that, uh, in the souvenir thing that we’re calling the mystery. And, and Sophia came back? Yes, Sophia came back and, uh, it was centered around a snow globe, which was very pretty. It was, I gotta say, I, even though this is a very scaled down ceremony, it’s very pretty, it’s, the opening number was cool with the light ropes, and this was lovely too.
And with the little light balls. Yes. So a big snow globe in the middle that turned out to have the duomo and the mountains. The mountains in it for Milano and Corina, and Sophia’s going to [00:43:00] remember all of this stuff, and the dancers around had little light balls in their hands so that they could pass the light in the energy of the games around, which we also had at the opening ceremony.
Yes, so it’s a nice tie into that too. And, uh, a lovely way to end. And it just, it was all it. And of course we don’t know what it feel feels like to be there, right. Unfortunately. But it felt kind of magical even though you have, ’cause we were like, what are they gonna do in this tiny venue? They put on a really good show and definitely for the athletes.
Yes, yes, yes. ’cause there couldn’t have been a heck of a lot of other people who were there, simply seating wise. Right. It has to really be athletes and VIPs and that’s about it. Yeah. And, and ’cause there’s no transportation, they shut that down early. And, uh, so. Then once they passed the light to Sophia, the lantern came out and she blew the lantern, and the, the cauldrons [00:44:00] went down like they were extinguished.
Alison Brown: So I have on closed captioning. Mm-hmm. Oh, what did they say? No, it, well, first of all, they kept saying para O, you know, Paralympic. Oh. Which, you know, it’s, ugh. But more importantly, they’re trying to close caption the rap and the singing right now. Oh no. And it’s not going well. They should try close captioning that pair of ice hockey.
Oh, the para ice hockey song? Yes. Um. So we had yet another games where they had to blow out the lantern. Blow out the cauldron. Right. And it’s not a move I like, I know. I think I want an actual cauldron and an actual place where we are. Yeah. And I like seeing it. Yeah. And, and again, we’re, I don’t know why I like fireworks so much, but I do.
I know there’s gonna be no fireworks ’cause it’s indoors. Right. And it’s a big light show. We have a lot of lasers going on. [00:45:00] Yes. Which is cool in, if you like Tron in 1982, it’s, you know, whenever they show lasers like this, that’s what I think of. I think it’s t think Tron, maybe Max had room, oh God. You know, that kind of 1980s.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Look, feel. Yes. So it, it kind of has that going on. But I think he’s bringing the energy. And that’s the show. We’re done. We’re done. It’s oa. We’re still not done. No, we’re still not done. We’re not Vicenza yet? No. Or Vicenza, I guess. Zaza somebody else. And we haven’t heard, I don’t think on tape how you can complain.
Alison Brown: Oh, about your train ride. If you need to complain. They tell you a lot how this happens.
and you can complain in English or Italian.
Jill Jaracz: Well, that’s good.
Alison Brown: Within three months.
Jill Jaracz: Alright, but. Here we are. What do you think of the end of the games?
Alison Brown: It [00:46:00] definitely feels a bit anticlimactic, you know, seeing the, uh, not being able to go to the closing ceremony.
Mm-hmm. Is, is. Very disappointing and frustrating, which is kind of how we felt with a lot of things when it came to getting around. Mm-hmm. Disappointed and frustrated. So in that way it’s, it’s right on par. But the games themselves were. Very well done. Um, the competitions were amazing. Mm-hmm. I mean, that hockey game and the curling match just capped off a week of really amazing stuff.
Jill Jaracz: Yes. Yeah. They continued from what the Olympics did. ’cause the Olympics also had amazing stuff. A lot of understated. I mean it, Italy is very proud. Italians are very proud people and, uh,
Alison Brown: it comes through.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, it does come through. And
Alison Brown: it was very Italian games.
Jill Jaracz: The attention, what, what would you say makes it very Italian?
Alison Brown: I think just the feel and [00:47:00] the way, uh, the way we interacted with the volunteers, if nothing else.
Jill Jaracz: Mm-hmm.
Alison Brown: There was something just very Italian about that. There were, they. Were friendly, but you didn’t wanna mess with them.
Jill Jaracz: I see.
Alison Brown: They would’ve cooked you dinner and
Jill Jaracz: then rounds? I would say to get to the security,
Alison Brown: yes.
Jill Jaracz: There was a large group of people and a Nona with a big Tupperware container sandwiches.
Alison Brown: Don’t eat the hockey food. No, no, no, no, no. Brought sandwiches. Nano brought panini.
Jill Jaracz: You didn’t want to eat the hockey food, I don’t think.
Alison Brown: No. Didn’t
Jill Jaracz: there was that? I walked all over the hockey venue today. And the, the media concession stand had, uh, like three options of different pastas that I never even
Alison Brown: found the media concession
Jill Jaracz: stand.
It was right by our door.
Alison Brown: Oh.
Jill Jaracz: And people who were not media and tried to go there, they were not happy that they could not get the food.
Alison Brown: Oh.
Jill Jaracz: but, uh, we had three different types of microwave pastas to choose from [00:48:00] and other places had the not every concession stand was open. There was like a sandwich bar and there was a burger bar that I think the sandwich bar was closed.
the future market also closed, which does not bode well for the future. Yeah. And uh, then they had like a popcorn stand with very flat bags of popcorn that cost three euros each. That was interesting. But, uh, there were burgers and fries and hot dogs.
Alison Brown: Well,
Jill Jaracz: at their
Alison Brown: section. Ben from off the podium told us the hot dogs there were very good.
Maybe we should have gotten one,
Jill Jaracz: maybe. But the, the line was long.
Alison Brown: I know. And Nona wouldn’t have approved?
Jill Jaracz: No, I don’t think so. But yeah, these games have been very interesting. I feel like I, I’m sorry we aren’t at the closing ceremonies because every time, every games that we’ve gone to, we have liked the Paralympic closing ceremonies better than the Olympic closing ceremonies.
Right. And this one, [00:49:00] the. Show portion of it looked delightful.
Alison Brown: Agreed.
Jill Jaracz: And I, I hope that the athletes thought so as well. I hope, I hope that’s what it felt like in person.
Alison Brown: I agree.
Jill Jaracz: And I like the, I mean, it scaled down, but I think,
Alison Brown: but appropriately so.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. But I also think that maybe the Olympics could take a, a cue from this,
Alison Brown: scale it back a little bit.
We don’t quite need that.
Jill Jaracz: Throwing all of the. Pasta at the wall to see what sticks.
Alison Brown: Yeah, just throw some of it.
Jill Jaracz: Right. So we are about done.
Alison Brown: Yeah. So let’s do the final shuk on medal count.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
Alison Brown: Now I count them differently than the country medal counts. ’cause I count each person who got it. So since we had three hockey players, that does count as three.
But still we did quite well. We get 14 golds, three silvers, and four bronze.
Jill Jaracz: I’m very good, very proud of all of you.
Alison Brown: [00:50:00] Mostly by the names of Sydney P. And, and,
Jill Jaracz: and, and
Alison Brown: Masters right there is half the count.
Train: We’re now arriving in. Thank you for. We’ll be glad to see you again on board our trains. We advise you to be careful while getting off the train
Alison Brown: and remember
Train: that it’s strictly forbidden to cross the
Jill Jaracz: tracks. Is that what you were remembering?
Alison Brown: That’s right.
Jill Jaracz: And
Alison Brown: remember, it’s strictly forbidden to cross the tracks.
Jill Jaracz: I would be afraid to cross the tracks.
Alison Brown: Agreed. I [00:51:00] wouldn’t
Jill Jaracz: get anything to do that. And I know people, I, I know people try and a lot fail.
Alison Brown: Why would you even attempt that?
Jill Jaracz: Because you think you can get across and it’s easier than it’s probably some people go, it’s probably easier to cross the tracks and jump up, jump down, cross the tracks, jump up to the next platform, then it did pull and then go up the other stairs.
So, um.
Alison Brown: Shout outs. Shout outs. Our last shout outs. So first up is Terry Hedgepath and she said, you guys rock.
Jill Jaracz: Much like a Terry Thorson from Canada who is a wheelchair racer in Athens 2004.
Alison Brown: And next up is Claire Nettleton of Salem, Oregon, and she said she feels she’s a mix of being a Milano and a Corina, and she wished us smooth sailing on our trip.
With enough fun in quotes. To entertain us with the stories. I hope the train has been fun.
Jill Jaracz: I do too. I know. I feel like this train is very low [00:52:00] key.
Alison Brown: Yes.
Jill Jaracz: So I hope we are not as low key as the train feels. It’s ’cause we’re free
Alison Brown: rocked to sleep. I think
Jill Jaracz: we are being rocked to asleep, but we’re gonna be rocked awake ’cause we both got a pack soon.
I know. Claire, I want to know if. You are as jet set as Cortina people are.
Alison Brown: It’s true.
Jill Jaracz: And then who is this for?
Uh, that would be, we couldn’t find a Clarine Nettleton, but we do have an Amy Nettleton from Great Britain who took part in the 2012 Torch. Relay is a flame ambassador, and she also happens to play wheelchair basketball. Oh.
Alison Brown: And then last for today is Yari from Dham, Massachusetts.
Jill Jaracz: And that would be like Yari Tanaka who played sitting volleyball for Japan at Tokyo 2020.
Alison Brown: Very nice.
Jill Jaracz: Exactly. So thank you to all of the donors who got us here and participated in our Milano or cor.
Train: Your staff are available [00:53:00] to assist passengers for any even reporting. We wish you a pleasant journey.
Alison Brown: Oh, thank you. And then for the last. Time we say thank you to your mascot, Abby, the cad, who has been a joy to have all games long.
Jill Jaracz: That’s right. Thank you so much, Abby. Thank you Charlotte, for sharing Abby with us and it in many ways, either ahead of the show, uh, bef during the games who got us through the grand finale one 50, so that we could have this moment together with us and the announcer. And, and an audience of people who are just busy with their own phones,
Train: like to file a complaint.
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Jill Jaracz: I just love the way that’s [00:54:00] we’ve been waiting for. I know. I just love the way she says, if you would like to file a complaint,
Alison Brown: what if people wanna file a complaint with us?
Jill Jaracz: Good luck with that. You can. We will put it in the files. That’s for true. The circular
Alison Brown: files.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. Or, or we’ll add it to the list. There you go. We know we’re, we’re really good at getting through our list too. well that is gonna do it for this episode and for this show, for the games.
Alison Brown: I know. My goodness.
Can you believe it?
Jill Jaracz: Yeah. You know, it’s, it’s always weird ’cause there’s the. Uh, you had that excitement at the beginning and that trip to go to? Yes. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So hard. Do I want ’em, do I not, I don’t know what I don’t.
Alison Brown: I don’t know how I feel
Jill Jaracz: and, uh, excited to go home.
Alison Brown: Very excited to go home.
Jill Jaracz: Not excited to pack.
Yeah,
Alison Brown: very unexcited to pack
Jill Jaracz: and, uh, not [00:55:00] excited to get no sleep tonight. ’cause I got to get a car at like three 30 or 3 45. Morning. I may get a couple
Alison Brown: hours. I’ll see how I do.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, I’m, I’m on that. I’m scared to sleep ’cause I’ll just sleep through everything at this point. Yeah, me too. So get on the plane, get home, get back to you all.
And the states are, you know, it’s been nice being on the continent with those who are on the continent, but, uh, we gotta be, it would be be nice
Alison Brown: to be home.
Jill Jaracz: Yes, exactly. So, uh, thank you so much for joining us. Don’t forget that we have, oh, you know what? We have tour t-shirts. We’ve, we’ve done, sorry, I almost forgot the, the t-shirts that we designed today.
Alison Brown: Our transit vibes T-shirts.
Jill Jaracz: That’s right. Uh, they will be, uh, in a link in the show notes. We’ve got them in our Facebook group also posted, so if you would like a memory to share with people and your pets.
Alison Brown: And whoever else you wanted my everyone to know that you were part of the Transport Vibe tour.
Jill Jaracz: Yes.
So you can get your t-shirt available now and don’t forget to please call in [00:56:00] on Tuesday and or Wednesday. Call in, dial us up on the internet. That’s the thing.
Alison Brown: This isnt Oprah back in 1992. Just call in.
Jill Jaracz: That’s right. So, uh, yes, we will be on Allison’s on. Tuesday the 17th, eight to 9:00 PM Eastern. I am on Wednesday, eight to 9:00 PM Eastern.
And we are gonna talk gameses with you and see what you are or what you all thought. And, uh, wrap up. Milano Cortina 2026 and, uh. Have those vibes.
Alison Brown: It’s the end of the vibe.
Jill Jaracz: Yeah, I know, I know. So, uh, yeah, we had the line in here. Be sure to talk to, I’ll be sure to tell you on Wednesday what I forgot to tell you today.
’cause I’m sure there is something. But, uh, for probably the la well, for the last time from Milano, Corina 2026 or venti.
Alison Brown: And until next time, chow. And keep the flame [00:57:00] alive.