The Canadian cheating scandal rocking the curling world, Taylor Swift shouts out Breezy Johnson and the Blade Angels, Ilia Malinin’s cryptic post, and Kevin Durant’s burner account?

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Madeline and Charlotte are back with the gift that keeps on giving — gossip from the Olympics! But first, Tom Brady is online again. Also, NBA All-Star was over the weekend, and Devin Booker was asked about the Bad Bunny half-time show…which was juicy, because they have both dated model/influencer Kendall Jenner. Also, longtime NBA star Chris Paul retiring after 21 seasons.

Now, Olympics! The gals have a few couples updates for the Shareholders: skier Breezy Johnson got engaged and Taylor Swift commented (Taylor also narrated the promo for the Blade Angels, aka the US women’s figure skaters). Plus, a few other skeleton and hockey relationships for you all to know about.

Speed-skater Jordan Stolz’s family is fascinating: He and his sister Hannah learned to skate after watching the 2010 Olympics, and she is now a championship taxidermist. Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor captured her first gold in her fifth Olympics and NBC ran a very sweet segment about her sons. The women’s figure skating starts today, and Ilia Malinin posted a cryptic Instagram after his heartbreak in the men’s free skate.

The US women’s hockey team plays Canada on Thursday in a thrilling rematch of 2022, and there is a big cheating scandal rocking the curling world!

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0:00.0	let me fix your hair there you go just it's just it's just been a day already I just want to slouch today but I'm not gonna do it same and my stupid mic Charlotte in the mic it look it just comes towards look at this look at this look at this look at this it just comes towards me okay let's see how that's happened okay let's see how that's It sounded.
0:28.7	Hi, Charlotte.
0:29.9	Hello, Madeline.
0:31.0	We're back.
0:32.4	Hello to our shareholders.
0:34.8	Charlotte and I are already losing it today. We've had a morning.
0:36.5	We've had a morning.
0:38.6	There was a guy with a doing a tree chipper. Oh guy with doing a tree chipper. Oh, I was out of wood chipper. Farlet saw me in the window. I was bent over looking out there watching him just bring twigs and I just turn and I go, he's bringing more twigs. Yeah, and Melvin's like that and how he's got a honker coming. And then I look and I said, You know what? I have to see this for myself. You gotta see it. This is Charlott's in the other window bent over.
0:56.1	And you know what?
0:56.6	Hands on hips.
0:57.4	It was a honker. And I said, you know what? I have to see this for myself. You gotta see it. This is Charlott's in the other window bent over.
0:56.1	And you know what? Hands on hips. It was a honker. It was a honker of a piece of wood. Seems to have stopped. Yes. Can I say something real quick? I have something in my eye. Oh, you're all right? Yep, I'm good. You got it? I don't know.
1:09.0	We'll find out, but keep talking.
1:10.0	Okay.
1:10.2	I am wearing a sweater hand knit by my mother, and I love it very much. And she gave it to me when I saw my parents over the weekend. It is fabulous. Thank you so much. It's fabulous. Incredible knitting work. Your mom needs to teach me how to knit. Well, she's been trying to teach me in my whole life, and I've been a reluctant learner. But now I'm really into the fiber arts community. We're deep in the fiber arts community. We were going to do a show and tell of our projects today, but I unfortunately forgot mine. So we are going to do it on Thursday's episodes. Yes, which by then, they'll be even longer. That's true. They're two scarves. Two scarves. Spoiler alert.
1:44.6	Spoiler alert.
1:49.3	Okay.
1:50.0	We just did the knees left at the same time.
1:52.7	Oh, God.
1:53.5	Well, we have a jam-packed episode for you all.
1:56.9	Before we get into a lot of Olympics updates, which we will tease, we have, of course, a Tom Brady update.
2:02.4	Yeah.
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