Welcome back to another edition of Shoutin Friday Slater Slatesters.

These are our Slate Plus exclusive conversations for when you want to laugh at the news rather than cry.

And I got to say, it's been a week.

The biggest news, which honestly we didn't even really cover on this show, was the president's

state of the union address in which Donald Trump straight up said that all Democrats are crazy and destroying the country.

Another story we didn't have time to mention was the fact that this week marks four years of

war in Ukraine with essentially no end in sight.

There is so much happening.

But that is why on Friday you need a little pause, a break, which we try to deliver with regularity to you.

And this week, I am so excited because this break is going to be with a person you know, you love, and you didn't know you were going to get to meet this Friday.

He has been in Italy representing Team USA in singular

fashion. We have Olympic curler, Rich ruin in here. Welcome to the show, Rich. I'm so pleased to

have you. Well, thanks for having me. I'm happy to be here. I just want to introduce you a bit for people

who maybe don't know your full story because I wanted to talk to you for a couple of reasons.

Like, number one, you didn't medal in the Olympics, but you did win a lot of hearts, including my own.

Because for a couple of reasons.

First of all, you were the oldest Olympian ever to compete.

Am I getting that right?

Right.

Oldest U.S. Winter Olympian, not Olympian. There's some guy from Norway who was like 58 or something. But, but yeah, oldest US winter Olympian. Does that mean you have one more Olympics in you? That guy was 58. You know, we're talking about it right now. I don't know. But it's a, it's, it gets tougher and tougher to play at this age. I'm not going to lie. If I, I'd be lying. If I told you it's easy like it used to be. Um, but, but, you know, hey, we're, we're, we're going to talk about whether we, I stay on for a little bit longer or not. But I kind of feel like, you know, I got there. I did what I needed to do. And now I probably got to step in a little bit more of a coaching role, which is, you know, where I was this last Olympics, so to speak. I mean, I was still a player, but I stepped in to help someone who was, you know, having some medical issues and those medical issues are getting better. And so we'll figure it out.

I'm not for sure out, but it might be time.

It's like a Cinderella story because you had tried to be on the Olympics a whole bunch of

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