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My guest tonight is Olympic gold medalist and the most decorated female skier of all time. Lindsay Vaugh. She's here to talk about her new memoir, about her record-breaking skiing career, and her new journey as an entrepreneur.

Lindsay Vaughn, welcome to The Daily Show. Hey, thanks for having me.

I've known you for a few years, so I knew some of the stories in this book, but like, I didn't know how much of a, let me choose my words carefully, crazy person you were. I was expecting something like this. No, no, no, no, you know why. I'll tell you why. I you why. Because like, I struggle to plan what I'm going to do next week in life. You had a 10-year plan to make it to the Olympics. And this is a plan as a nine-year-old. I have to add on top of that. So at nine years old, you're like, I want to go to the Olympics in 10 years. Yeah, I mean, my dad definitely helped me with the planning. But we had, yeah, I met Pigoo Street, my idol when I was nine,

came home and I was like,

this is it, this is what I want to do.

And I was like, okay, let's make a plan.

You printed out calendars, we had highlighters, it was like a whole thing.

What are you planning in that 10 years?

I'm...

No, I mean, I know you the greatest, but what takes 10 years? I need to understand what takes... So when you're nine, you have to, like, build up a point profile, you know, certain requirements that you have to make in order to kind of make the progression to even get to the U.S. ski team and then to the Olympics. So, and my dad was a racer when he was growing up. right right right so he knew kind of all the levels that i need to get and you know obviously i had to

start expanding my was growing up. He was a junior racer. So he knew kind of all the levels that I need to get.

And, you know, obviously I had to start expanding my repertoire because I was from Minnesota.

So 300 vertical feet is not a place where you learn downhill skiing. So we had to move to Colorado when I was 12.

So it was like, you know, the tenure plan was extensive. I understand. I mean, yeah, Minnesota might not have been great for your repertoire, but it was great for preparing

you for the doldrums of the cold. Do you even feel cold anymore? Like everyone is dying here in New York. Everyone's freezing. And then today when you came and I was like, oh, she's just going come in like a tank top and be like, oh, summer day, everybody.

How you doing?

I hate the cold.

You're like the bane of the cold.

Like, that's you.

A bane. gonna come in like a tank top and be like, oh, summer day, everybody, how you doing? I hate the cold.

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