|
|
| Star 94 Radio Station... March 2, 2002 |
Steve (S)- …even his chin. I don’t know. We welcome Apolo Ohno to the Steve and Vicky show this morning. Hey!
Vicky (V)- where’s the medal?
Apolo (Ap)- Um… It’s in my little case…
V- The medals. Do you really have it?
A-Yeah
V- can I see ‘em?
A- Yeah
S- Oh, we want to see the medals. Yeah.
V- See I knew you’d have ‘em!
S- Closest…
V- He said, do you think he’s gonna bring them? I said, yes, how else would we know you were you?
S- He has more armed guards than *In vogue* watching over these medal. Hey you got a medal case with hand cuffs and everything. There’s a code and… (laughs) I jest.
Ap- (laughing while listening to Steve) I guess people do.
S- Alright
Ap- This is it
V- Wow! Oh and it’s heavy too!
S- Which one you got? The silver?
V- The silver
S- May I hold the gold?
Ap- yeah
V- Silver in the thousand meters
S- Wow
V- He’s a speed skater don’t you know? Can I put it on?
Ap- (laughing a little bit and softly speaking: “actually no”)
S- I think that there’s something sac-religious about this
V- I NEED A PITCURE WITH THIS!
Ap- oh, that’s bad luck
V- It’s bad luck that I put it on?
Ap- um-hmm
V- (gasps) Oh I’m so sorry. I’ll take it off now
S- Bad luck for Vicky or for you?
Ap- (laughing) Both!
S- Uh oh!
V- Oh no!
Ap- No, that’s only the gold one.
S- These are uh..
V- Okay, okay
S- This is beautiful too. I love these were, uh … made
Ap- like little hand crafted on that side
S- Yeah, yeah. They look like they were almost hand made.
Ap- They…yeah. Yeah. My sport’s on the inside if you look real close, in the middle.
S- Yeah
V- See the skaters? In the middle?
S- Oh yeah! Um-hmm
V- Pretty cool. What’s it like to stand up there and …
Ap- What’s it like?
V- Yeah. To win a gold, to win a silver, to be part of the whole thing?
S- Oh
Ap- Just to be up on the podium really, ya know? On the Olympic… just… on the stand. When I was, when I first knew I got the silver I… number one, I was just so tired, ya know, after I finished the race, but when I got to stand up there that was the best, for sure.
V- The best?
Ap- Yeah (mumbling ) That was pretty cool.
V- And did it matter, that it was silver or gold?
Ap- No, not to me.
V- Really?
Ap- In the… in the thousand, ya know, I skated, I thought I skated the best… to my ability in that race and I had one of the best races in my life… so, I was just happy to compete with the best and, you know, know that I was in the top, the top top of the top that day.
V- The best of the best.
Ap- yeah
V- And have you been on a wheaties box or anything, since?
Ap- No. So… real busy though.
V- No?
Ap- yeah
V- I know, ‘cuz I saw you at the Elton John In Style Magazine party at the academy awards
Ap- Right, right
V- I didn’t come up and bug you but…
Ap- yeah (mumbles)
V- I mean, there were so many people there. It was a great time, wasn’t it?
Ap- Yeah it was. (mumbles something)… been there
V- And you’ve changed your look because before, the hair on the chin looked like a dot and now it’s more like a goatee. I’m I right, or am I right?
Ap- (Sounding surprised) No! It’s the same!!!
V- It’s the same?!!
Ap- Yeah (laughs)
V- Steve, does that look the same to you?
S- Yeah. It’s always been that soul patch there, but I think seeing him live, has a…it…its gone below the chin where on television you really maybe can’t tell that. Don’t you think?
Ap- Yeah, I don’t know. It gets kind of shaggy sometimes.
S- Does it?
V- ‘Cuz look what I brought. I thought we could have some fun on the air …(a razor sounds in the background)
Ap- (ominously) Uh-oh… No… no…
V- I brought a razor! Come on Apolo!
Ap- (laughs) No! Not for me!!!
V- Yeah!
S- Vicky wants to shave you!
V- We could have some fun today!
(All laugh)
S- This is like that… like your strength, right? Like, who was it that… uh…
Ap- Samson?
V- Yeah!
S- When they cut his hair he lost all his strength. You can’t cut his little soul patch there!
Ap- This is my balance. That’s my balance.
V- (laughs) It’s your balance?
Ap- Yeah (mumbles still laughing)… right here
V- (laughs)
S- Yeah. Uh, Speed Skater Apolo Ohno is going to be at Art Atlanta, the Cobb Galleria tonight at six o’clock. This is an event that uh, begins to day and uh runs through the fifth and uh many dignitaries there. In fact they’re honoring uh, Andy Young and uh benefits CARE and Ben *Vering* will also be there to present a very special award to Andy Young and you’ll be there tonight at six o’clock like we say… so..
Ap- I will be there.
S- Yeah. Had you been to Atlanta before at all during our Olympic Games?
Ap- No. I hadn’t before. I um…
V- This is your first time?
Ap- No I, I’ve been here. I’ve gotta friend who lives here, so um, we kinda hang out when I come here, but I have never really [come] to Atlanta and just kinda, hang out and experienced it… so
V- Do you like it?
Ap- Yeah! Yeah, for sure, ya know? I think tonight we’re gonna go out ATL (laughs) It’ll be fun.
V- (laughs) But I thought you were working tonight.
Ap- Yeah, I am, but after.
V- Yeah, but later tonight. Okay. I gotcha.
S- Is your friend an athlete?
Ap- He is. Yeah… you could call him an athlete. (laughs… a lot…)
S- Yeah ?
V- That’s pretty funny.
S- (laughs) He does more than lift the mug of beer to his mouth, right?
Ap- He’s probably listening right now, so…
S- Yeah?
Ap- Yeah.
V- Who is it? Say hi to him.
Ap- (putting on his “city” accent) Big Nasty Rog? (as in “Roger” with the “g” sounding like the “g” in “genre”) (Stars laughing more)
S- (starts laughing)
V- (laughs) Does he need a shave? Big Nasty? (More laughing)
Ap- He does need a shave.
S- Vicky wants to shave somebody here today. Apolo Ohno is with us on the Steve and Vicky show with us here today. If you have a question by the way (lists phone number) Your chance to talk with an Olympian here. And a very interesting story he has from a fourteen years of age on up. We want to get into that, next on the Steve and Vicky show. It’s Star 94!!!
(Commercials)
S- Star 94. It’s the Steve and Vicky morning show. Apolo Anton Ohno. Speed skater from the Olympics in Salt Lake City…
V- (cutting off Steve) And not only gold and silver medallist, we announced early this morning that you’re in people magazine’s 50 most beautiful people issue. How’s that make you feel, Apolo?
Ap- I was flattered when I heard about that.
V- Did they take your picture in skates?
Ap- No.
V- No?
Ap- No. It’s… I think it’s a pretty good picture though. They had some, ya know they had a little wardrobe there and the whole thing so it was pretty cool.
V- Did they give you the wardrobe? Did you get to choose?
Ap- (laughs a little) No.
V- Oh, no?
Ap- (laughing even more) No, no! It was too big!!!
V- The clothes they brought were too big?
Ap- No, like the whole wardrobe was too many clothes.
V- Oh, okay
Ap- (mumbling something about “so many shots”)
V- What did you wear? Do you remember?
Ap- Uh, I think, I think I might actually be in Armani.
V- Oh. Okay.
Ap- Armani.
S- Suited up?
V- Yeah! |
|
|
