HTDE: Curling Stones and Halfpipe Lines
2/18/202619 min
More behind the scenes at the Milan Cortina Olympics with unsung heroes of the Winter Games. Mike and Ian talk with a curling legend, find out where those big stones come from and meet a guy snowboarders couldn't land without.
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Peter Sagal· Host0:25
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Ian Chillag· Host0:51
If you've obsessively been watching the Olympics in Milan-Cortina the way we have, you've probably seen a guy named Nick Monti. He's the one who skis out and paints the blue line in the snow in the halfpipe and big air competition.
Mike Danforth· Host1:09
Nick is with us now. We have him on Zoom. And Nick, it looks like you just got off a mountain.
Nick Monti· Guest1:15
Yeah. No, no. Just go down and ready to go up one more time for the big air.
Ian Chillag· Host1:20
Wow.
Mike Danforth· Host1:20
[laughs] So how do you do... So all the blue lines that we see on the, in the pipe or on, on the slope, you've painted that.
Nick Monti· Guest1:27
Yes.
Mike Danforth· Host1:27
And you're skiing while doing this.
Nick Monti· Guest1:29
Yes.