Kylie & Jason on Olympic Proposals, Gold Medal Games & Tiramisu-Off w/ Laila Edwards, Breezy Johnson | Ep. 55

Not gonna lie, this Olympics mascot are so cute, this is Milo and this is Tina.

Yep, let's get this podcast started.

Welcome or should I say Benvenuti, that sounds I really want to say Benvenuti.

Oh no, to our first ever international episode of Not Gonna Lie, A Wave Original,

that's right, I'm here in Milan with YouTube and NBC at the Milan Cortino Winter Olympics.

This is so silly, I'm your host Kylie Kelsey, food motivated and speaking of my favorite Italian dish.

Oh no, how do you choose?

I literally pasta in any shape or form.

The best movie set in Italy of all time is, oh of all time makes it feel much bigger,

but I really, really enjoy Eprey Love.

I feel like the way Julia Roberts makes you feel about Italy and the food that you're eating

and the experience that you're supposed to have is like felt deep in your soul and I love that

truly, also the Liz and McGuire movie. Great second.

And the Winter Olympics sport I have the least business trying is definitely Bob Sletting

or any of that type of track.

Speaking of which, Jason went Bob Sletting and just posted a video on it.

The top comment on Jason's Bob Slet post is at Kylie Kelsey, are we allowed to watch this

asking for permission? Yes, and I highly encourage it. This was not only eye opening because

there's a lot to learn and I always say I am winter sports dumb and so I was sat for this entire

episode and I really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed Jason wearing a bobsled suit.

Thank you for that. You may look. I give you permission because I was also like

now that that's been addressed. Coming up on today's episode since I've returned to the birth

place at places Kylie has no business being shout out to Milan Fashion Week. I'm going to talk

all things Milan and Winter Olympics in the latest edition of places Kylie has some business

being plus we're all in for Winter Olympics edition of Doom Scroll the Week featuring a lot of

tiramisu. Another great Italian food. Oh no. After that, I'm going to be joined by not one.

This is silly but two. Team USA superstars. Layla Edwards, the women's ice hockey phenom

from Cleveland Heights, Ohio and fresh off her gold medal win and her engagement

skiing sensation breezy Johnson. I have no business talking to either of them and we're going to

double weigh me in one episode silly. But before we get into all that, let's start off with a

quick NGL announcement. If you were already sad that this Winter Olympics episode from Milan

was eventually going to end literally don't be because we have a second episode. Yep,

that's right. It gets even sillier. More people to sit down with. Oh gosh. It's coming to you

this Sunday, February 22nd. We have amazing guest lined up. So make sure that you subscribe

on YouTube and set your alerts. All right. Told you it was a quick announcement.

That was efficient. Next up, we're in Milan. The OG place I said I had no business being.

So we're going to do a new version of that segment called places Kylie has some business being

and this week I have some business being at the Winter Olympics in Milan. I still I think this might

be under I have no business. But I have some business because go USA. First as Queen Emma can attest,

I've been practicing my Italian phrases. It's not going great. I have learned

per favore. That's please. Bon giorno. That's hello. Good day, technically. Scusa. That's, excuse me.

Ciao. This is hello. Or goodbye. Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. And that's all I've got. That's all my Italian and

I'm trying desperately really fighting for my life here to not have my French

schooling bust through. I did find out how to say fuck around and find out an Italian. But

I'm going to go to my friend to repeat again because Maurizio is here and he's going to you

you're going to hear him in the background because I'm not I'm not wrong.

Cazeggiare e scopriero. Oh no. Cazeggiare e scopriero. Oh no. Cazeggiare e scopriero.

Okay, I'm getting a thumbs up. I'm here with Jason this time around. It's a no kids parent trip.

I have eaten everything I've seen. Literally, if I see it, I'm eating it. I am really looking to get

just some homemade spaghetti. I want it and I want it with just pomodoro. That's

that's all I want. Simple, straightforward. And I want to lean so far away from

American Italian because everybody knows in America, you get it on every corner.

And some are better than others. But I want to take pasta to the face in all shapes.

And I'm not going to discriminate at all. Also pizza. But for some reason, I don't feel

as strongly about pizza. The main event so far was definitely the women's ice hockey semi finals

last night that we just happened to we came without a plan for something last night. And then

as soon as we heard that the women were playing, we were like, can we can we go? Some of you may have

seen us there courtesy of this tweet that's now going viral. It says Kylie Kelsey and her husband

supporting team USA Women's Hockey. Jason actually just told me about this in breakfast.

This is this is ridiculous. Cut that out. We've leaned too far in the opposite direction.

You know, it's great. Jason and Kylie Kelsey. How about that? That's cool. Also, I would just like

to point out I was a little sad about this because I'm barely ever on my phone. And especially

last night, I was busy watching. And then you caught me on my phone. So you caught me. You got me,

got my ass. People were enjoying the caption though. I think that maybe we should say both names.

But you know, sure. This was the first competition that we've gotten to see for Winter Olympics.

And the women's ice hockey team dominated in a way that I can't explain. And also, I brought my

resident ice hockey player and was asking my husband necessary questions because yes, I did in fact

not know what icing was. Don't worry. We'll get to it because Jason ratted me out to Laila.

That's fine. I'm only slightly embarrassed. My favorite story so far to come out of the Winter

Olympics. Oh gosh, that's a good question. There's so many. I mean, we're biased, but Cory and Cory

winning silver big deal. We got to hang out with Cory. We actually got to fuck around and find out

with Cory in Sioux Falls, South Dakota when we went out there to learn how to curl.

And we got to meet Cory. That's male Cory. And he was telling us about how he and Cory were

preparing to compete. So that was that was a big one. Pretty big one. All right, that's it for

places. Kylie has some business being next up. Doom Scroll the week winner Olympics edition.

First up on our Olympic Doom Scroll, two things we love around here are joining forces,

hyping up women's sports and supportive siblings. Queen Emma, the clip, please.

Yes.

Yeah. So for anyone who doesn't know, these are Team USA hockey player Haley wins three brothers.

They've been putting out some of the best videos of the Winter Olympics so far.

First of all, their energy outstanding. Let's start there. Second, the outfits. I mean,

to hit the mullet and the jords. Well done. Haley is the youngest of the four siblings and

the only girl. So I think that this is a really cool, just concept that the three older brothers

are going to the Olympics, but it's to cheer on their little sister. I love that so much.

Also, anyone who has been around older brothers, I'm married to one.

And you know that the younger siblings, they've been through it and it's made them better

in their life. It's sent them on the path that they're on. And so I can only imagine that their

her three brothers helped her achieve greatness. And honestly, ice hockey is a sport of grit and toughness.

I feel like not to take any credit from Haley, but I feel like she was better prepared because

she had three older brothers. And now they're doing exactly what they should be doing and it's

cheering loudly for her and wearing jorts while doing it. So well done, guys. And more importantly,

well done, Haley. We are having a fun time cheering you on. I do think that these are the types

of outfits that Jason would lean in on heavily. And I say that because at some point in our lives,

he not only has worn jorts, but had an actual mullet. So in case you want to look that up,

it was, he had the mullet around the birth of Wyatt. And the reason I know that is because I

begged him pleaded for him to no longer have the mullet in the photos with our first child.

You guessed it, there's a mullet in the first child's birth. So did I admit on this show that

maybe the mullet was kind of hot? No, I don't know where you're talking about. This is called

not going to lie. But he's sitting in the room so I said it, but I need you to not tell him about it

because I told you not to tell him and how he's in here. Okay, next scroll. Yeah, that's right. It was

magic. And now he appeared. Look at him and his Italian hat. Yes, well, it's not. Yeah, it's a flower.

I don't know what it is. No, it's a flower. It's beautiful. Anyway, for my last scroll,

I have a special guest. And when we try things, when we eat things on this show, we just really like to

have Jason here because Jason likes to be here. Apparently the Winter Olympics has its very

own version of the Paris viral chocolate muffin. I think we all remember that. Everyone was

feigning for chocolate muffins. And of course, the version here, tear mousseau.

So Queen Emma is going to roll the clip of the viral tear mousseau in the Olympic Village.

I think I found that chocolate muffin of the Winter Olympics, it's going to be the tiramisu

and I heard it's insanely good. The smirk. All right, there we go. Positive review.

12 out of 10. Okay. Well, he doesn't know how rating systems work.

This is the Swiss snowboarder Jonas Hasler. He rated this tiramisu at the Olympic Village

a 12 out of 10. We attempted to get this specific tiramisu, but apparently it's nearly impossible

to get your hands on, which makes sense because we're not Olympic athletes. So

we accept that fate. I will be making every effort to find it this week, but also

I don't know that I've earned the right to taste it. So in the meantime,

if you find some, I'll leave it. Okay.

Well, stop Jason. In the meantime, we have a tiramisu tasting here with three of the best

tiramisu's our team could find. So we're going to give it a rating out of 10. That's right, 12.

It's not part of this rating system. Are you good with that? Yes. Yes. Okay. Which one would

you like to try first? I feel like this is your show. Kai, whatever you want to try first. You're

the you're the queen. I actually don't you're the queen. I guess you're more of the tiramisu fan.

I'm not a big tiramisu person. I'm a big tiramisu person. Let's try the flat one first,

because I think it's I think you're going to be the least satisfied with this one with this one.

I like it. That's fantastic. Really? You don't like that? I said I like it. That's why I guess that

you wouldn't like it. No, I like this a lot. Oh my goodness. I can't tell if he's kidding. No,

I'm fantastic. Maybe your tiramisu hang up has just been that you weren't eating tiramisu

in Italy. The balance of his grape. There's like the biscuit is soggy or whatever, but then there's

also a nice crunch to it. It's really good. He's going to eat the whole thing. I want to.

I'm coming back to that one. Where are we going next? We're going to this jar, the front jar.

Trying to get all of it. Get out of your microphone.

That other one's I mean, I have all the tiramisu I've had. It's probably I can't go 10 out of 10

because I'm waiting. I go. I'm going to go 9.8. That one's 5. Cheese. It's aggressive. It's too high.

My hat's got to fall out to be like a 9.8. All right. All right. All right. All right. Let me add it

at 4.2. It's not good. This one is not good. I was expecting a lot of the jar. I don't know who made it,

so sorry to whoever made that. No, no. I did confirm before we tried it that this was purchased.

Got it. This custard. The custard is.

There's two the balance. It's almost like the custard is like split. You can see it on the side.

The balance is off. The custard isn't really airy. I still have not rated a single one. Why'd you

give the first one? It's easy. It's a little bit too cheesy. What'd you give the first one?

Look at us. Okay. Read the first one. Please. I'm pulling a number out of my ass.

Okay. I'm going to go 9.2 on the first one. I think 9.2 is a fair rating.

But just because I don't want to be exactly the same. I'll go 8.9. Just because I'm going to leave

some buffer to maybe go up. So I'm going to go six on the side. It's edible.

There's it. Yeah. We're going to do this one. I feel like

how do I even eat this? Right now I just don't even like that there's a thing a chocolate that

doesn't even... Is it plastic? This one is presentation-wise getting docked.

This is the lady finger that soaks up the espresso. My instinct is that the jar is in 8.6. He's

going to strongly disagree with me here. The jar is good. You don't like this one now. Okay. To me,

being a complete and total American that is not... I don't even think I'm part Italian. I want

to throw that out there. 9.2. 4.2. 8.6.

So much random numbers. All right. I'll go... This isn't a 9. It's just not a 9.

I'm going to go 8.7. 5.4. Now you're just making up numbers. 7.6. You went off of all the scores

you had already given. 7.6. Yeah. So you still think this one's the best one? I think so. I mean,

but it's not like is... It was very good the first time I had it. Now that I'm going back to it,

still good, but it's not like... I think I was just really hungry when I ate the first bite.

I'm so happy that you've come around on tiramisu. Well, we just had to come to Italy. No,

only around it in Italy. I'm not around it. I'm okay with that. I've been to the nicest

time restaurant in the United States and had their tiramisu about it. It's okay. It's fine. He said

it's fine, which is great for me or something like that. I'd much rather do that. The tiramisu

I've had so far has been... This only... This only... This only solidifies my thought process on us

and desserts, because more for me. So... Yep, loving. Shake it up now. No, you're staying until I do

this outro on the Doom Scroll. That's it for Doom Scroll the week and our tiramisu taste test.

Now it's time for the main event. The reason I'm here and... So are you? Are badass

team USA athletes? Oh, God, it's so silly. Once again, thanks to YouTube and NBC for

hooking it up, Queen Emma. Let's bring in Layla. She's the women's ice hockey phenom out of

Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a first-time Olympian who has two goals and five assists so far. In the

Winter Olympics, she's making history as the first black woman to play for the US hockey team.

She's also a University of Wisconsin Badger and a friend of the family. Layla Edwards,

welcome to Not Gonna Lie. Thank you for having me. This is so exciting. We are connected

by way of the other podcasts. We don't say it here. No, I don't know. You're talking about... Yeah,

perfect. You got a seal of approval from them years ago. Yeah, that was pretty cool. And then

you made the Olympics because you're the best athlete out of Cleveland. Yes, thank you.

I do have a lot of questions for you because as my husband so nicely exposed me when you first

walked in, I was asking him about icing last night. I did not grow up with a lot of ice hockey

around me. I went for the other hockey, the outside hockey. But I was questioning my husband

last night. And so I might have more questions for you if that's okay. Oh, definitely.

Perfect. Thank you so much. Now for anyone who isn't familiar with this connection between

you and my husband and my brother-in-law, like I said, it's been years in the making. Can you

fill everyone in on this story? Oh, gladly. Yeah, when I first made the US national team

as a first black woman, I got a shout out on that one podcast. I can't remember the name.

Want to Cleveland Heights's own? Layla Edwards. Hey, oh.

Shout out to Layla Edwards. She's set to become the first black woman to play for team USA

senior hockey team. Everyone was just blowing up my phone like, yo, the Kelsey's just shouted,

shouted you out or those guys are shouted you out on their podcast.

Oh, and it was just so cool. I remember watching the video and thinking like, wow, you know, just

hear my name coming out of that guy's mouth. It was just really cool. Yeah, I was just showing

the love and support, you know, because we've got a cool community in Cleveland Heights. And

no, ever since then, I think they've just realized that I'm the best athletic Cleveland Heights.

So fair. No, the guys shouted you out again in December for making the Olympic roster.

And then they donated to the GoFundMe to make sure that your parents would be here and your

hope family would be here for the Olympics. And they're here because I saw them last night.

What has it been like to have your family here in Milan cheering for you?

Yes, it's been so awesome. And this has been one of my favorite things to talk about too,

because when everyone's talking about how, you know, those guys donated and it was really nice.

But I think it just goes to show it's like, everyone knows him is really good athletes. And I think

only a handful of people get to know how good they are as people. And I think it's just really

cool. And I can't thank them enough, you know, just for helping out because my family needs a

world to me. And so to have them here, just that sense of love and support, it allows me to play

my best hockey. Well, it's crazy to think that there are actually some Olympic athletes whose families

don't make it over here. When it really is an effort of the family, right? To get into this point,

who drove you to practice? Who took you to early morning rank? Like it exactly.

Rink ice ice rink. Yeah, sure. Okay. Thank you. Not me questioning all of my hockey lingo.

How many family members do we have here? I have 10 family members here. That's such a good showing.

I know. It's unbelievable. That's so good. In the age range too, it's like my sisters 24 and my

grandma's 91. So my 91 year old grandma's here. Uh-oh. Yes. Isn't that crazy. Stop it. Yes.

Has she ever been to Italy before? I don't even think she's been out of the country. Stop. Yes.

That's going to mean we cry. Yes. That is so sweet. It is so awesome. Is she not the most like

excited? Yes. It's just so excited and like proud and happy to be here. That's so cool of you to give

your grandmother the opportunity not only come but like to have a reason to come to Italy. Right.

Exactly. Yes. At 91. I know. I look for her after every game to wave and it's really cute. Stop.

This is so good. Um, if, if maybe we could just, you know, we's our way down there. Maybe we could

just sit near them. Oh my god. They would love that. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. We're just going to,

we're going to channel our most Cleveland Heights energy and then we're just going to

pop right down there. Yeah. No. It'll be great. Yes. It's going to be awesome.

Perfect. Um, who's the MVP of the Edwards family at this Olympics? I do think I know the answer.

Yes. I think everyone knows the answer. It's my mom. Is it?

I, who are you thinking? Your mother. Okay. Good. Yeah. Just to be clear. Handsome. A thousand percent.

Um, I actually love her videos on social media. Oh gosh. So we're going to watch the fit check

right now. Oh gosh. Okay. I am channeling my Taylor Heisee and Zom Winkle. Grace Zom Winkle.

That is. I'm doing a fit check. Oh, she is. My sweatshirt is courtesy of USA.

Supporting the whole American hockey moms. I have on Chuck Taylor's. My kind of girl.

You guys feel the same person. The red, white and blue. Nails by adult vision by Millie Tomet and

look at these earrings. Yes. Cardiffy of Alicia Stefan. That was such good. That's like one of five.

She has so many more. Love it. You actually commented on that. Yeah. You said, oh goodness.

How does it feel? How do you feel about this fit check? You know, at first I was like, oh gosh.

Oh goodness. But then I was like, you know what? I love it. She's being herself. She's having fun.

She had that strong personality. Everyone's enjoying it. Like do your thing. Do your thing.

She's having her own Olympics right now. That's the best way to put it. And I am so here for it.

Is she your ultimate hype woman? Yes. She is hands down my ultimate hype woman. But what I love

about her, she's everyone's ultimate hype woman. Like everyone on the team she cheers for like the

her kids. It is so awesome. We love women supporting women. Yes. Yes. That's her. Now of course,

we also have to talk about Cleveland Heights. I know how much pride my husband and my brother-in-law

taking Cleveland Heights. They literally named the other podcast after it. What do you love about

your hometown? Oh man. There's so many good things I can say about my hometown. The community is

just like one of a kind. It's so diverse and welcoming. And to understand it the most,

you just have to live there. And obviously some pretty good athletes come out of there, you know.

Very good. Yes. I'm not even saying this just because you're here. My husband can vouch for me on

this. I love Cleveland Heights. It feels like a warm hug. Yes. It is the most delightful. Like you

saying that it's like like welcoming. It's it is all of that. And more like it has the most

lovely like mom and pop places. It is. It just feels like a true sense of community. Yes.

And you can tell because when people go out into the world, they still talk about it. Not stop.

Exactly. And also the number of people who are who stop me to tell me that they're from

Cleveland Heights. I'm like, thank you so much for telling me like I'm part of the party. Right.

Let's talk about the main reason why we're here at Team USA Women's Ice Hockey. You guys are

do we have wood? Close enough. You guys are crushing it. Oh, you have what behind you. I'm

gonna steal that. Oh, I'm gonna steal it. Do you mind passing it? Of course. That would be so sweet.

Thank you so much. Perfect. Perfect. We forgot our wooden spoon. I'm sure I can find an

Italian grandmother to give me one. I have an Italian spoon at home that I keep in the drawer of my

desk just for like the moments where I feel like I have gone too far. And I have to go get up with

some good juju. First of all, you're making history by playing on this team with every goal you

score. How does it feel to play in each game knowing just that? Yeah, I mean, just knowing that it's

a sense of pride and motivation. Just the opportunity to be a role model and an inspiration

regardless of if I chose it or not, it is what it is. And I just love the idea of being able to

make an impact on other people. Do you feel that way? Do you feel the weight of knowing that like

young kids are watching you? And you're inspiring them to know that they can do exactly what you're

doing with hard work and a lot of time. Yeah, I might definitely feel the way, but I kind of try

to channel that into like motivation and pride. I mean, it's just so cool. Like even the

hear parents tell me their kid, either plays because of me or still plays, it's just nice to know

that they have that representation. And I'm hoping that grows. That's so badass. That's so badass.

You scored the first goal, your first goal against Canada. That has to be like a life highlight,

right? Like of all the games that you could have scored your first goal. Right. That was

that was some ball session right now. I mean, well, every game is awesome, but it's just a different

game against Canada. So to get my first one, I got some, yeah, that felt good. I mean,

that's it. You get to hold on to that forever. You get to take that with you. That's so good.

What has this whole experience been like for you? It's been crazy. I mean, it's been the experience

of a lifetime. I've got to meet some really cool people. I mean, it's brought me here to

meet you and that other guy that you're with. I think that's really cool. And just to be here

and making an impact and just doing what I love is in having a lot of people support me. It's been

so cool. Do you, I know, by way of my husband, that to get time on the ice, it means early mornings

or late nights. Yeah. I'm sure that you have had your fair share of that and many other things.

What, what has brought you to this moment? Like, what are the things that you remember along your

journey of maybe those early practices that extra work that you put in to get here? Because I'm

sure that it wasn't just practice time. Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, I was never really a morning

person, but my dad made me go. It was like five a.m. wake up every day, six a.m. to seven before

school. And it was tough, but I got up every single morning that I had to and I feel it paying off,

you know, and just those sacrifices like I didn't get to hang out with my friends a weekend because

I was traveling to Detroit, Pittsburgh or somewhere for hockey or I was playing on two teams at

morning skate, then night skate. And I would try to get any extra work into my driveway and

my dad can attest to the fact that I've ruined every single garage door we've ever had, of course,

naturally. Yeah. And so there, yeah, there's been so many sacrifices and a lot of that,

you know, has come from my family too. So I'm sure my dad didn't want to get up at five a.m.

every day, but he knew, you know, how much I loved hockey and he saw a future.

For any kids listening, specifically young girls listening, you mentioned not going out on the

weekends, maybe missing some friend socializing time. Do you regret it? I don't regret it. Oh,

not at all. I mean, I'm here at the Olympics, you know, on Kylie Kelsey's not gonna lie podcasts.

I mean, what regrets could I possibly have? There's such a drop in the bug.

I ask because and I want to say this in the most self-aware way. I always talk about like my

high school experience. I played hockey, field hockey, not ice hockey. I was not cool enough to

play ice hockey and or coordinated enough on skates. But I spent a lot of weekends where people

that I went to school with. I was at public school. People were not taking their sport very seriously

or if they were, they weren't the people I was talking to in this moment. But I had many weekends

where people were like, oh, you're not coming. You're oh, you're not coming there because I had a seven

a.m. tournament the next morning for field hockey. Exactly. And I never felt like I was missing out

because when you end up at these places, you end up with probably some of your closest friends.

Yes. A hundred percent. Because they're your teammates and you're working towards the same

things and they understand the hustle and they understand what you're doing and they understand

your passion for your sport. So you bond over that. So I always felt strongly about sharing the

message of like I put my eggs in my athletic basket. And I don't regret it for one second. And I

didn't make the Olympics. I played vision free field hockey and it was great and I loved it.

Well, it's still like, yeah, if you loved it and that's that's the thing is like there were

moments in there. I was like, oh, I wish I could stay back on my friends. Yeah.

I'm not going to, I'm just going to keep it real. But I still don't regret it because

some of those were some of the sacrifice you have to make, you know, to separate yourself from

others. It's a small percentage that get to play D1, D3, go to the Olympics. So it's like,

you know, you just have to make this. So nice of you to put D3 in there. That was cute.

That was so cute. What do you mean it? What's your friends back at the University of Wisconsin,

think of all this? They think it's crazy. You know, they can't even wrap their minds around it.

It's really funny. But you know, a few of them are actually here supporting me too,

which has been really cool. This feels like the perfect time to you're in your senior year,

it was content. Correct. This feels like the perfect time to put a plea out to your professors.

Agreed. Perfect. Laila said that she's been busy doing her homework. And considering she's

representing our country, let's cut the shit. Please, and thank you.

Period. Maybe like, maybe like, excuse on a couple assignments. Guys, it's seven semesters.

They'll go a long way. We really need you to chill out. Okay. I feel like anything that's

to do between now, it's Tuesday. In graduation. Perfect. But if we had to, maybe Monday.

Yeah, that's pretty good. We do Monday. Anything to Tuesday, February 17th, next Monday.

I don't know that date either, but we want it. Yes. Perfect. We would say no assignments.

We're just hundreds. We'll take hundreds, please. Yes. 90s. We'll take 90s. Yes. But we'll take 10

points off. Yes. For not handing it in. Yes. This is a great plea. I feel like I think this is

strong. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Great. How can they do that? We love Wisconsin. Go Badgers. Yes. Go

Badgers. But also go USA. Yes. You're being ridiculous. Come on. I'll reach us. We're so excited

to share you on what we'll be today because this episode comes out on Thursday. You guys are

playing Canada. Yes. How are you feeling? I'm feeling so excited. You know, it's obviously it's

all this talk about how good and dominating we've been. But no, it's for a reason because we're good

and in the most humble way. It's just facts. I do think there is a degree

where you need to have what some people, I think, truly non-athletes would call cocky. Right.

Is confidence. Yes. You have to have some that. You have to be like in a way. First of all,

there's some swag to it. Like as an athlete, you have to sort of like have a little bit of like,

yeah, I'm cool. Have you seen me in play my sport? But also, I think that like that confidence,

you obviously could not go out there if you were questioning yourself. Yeah. Exactly. You would

not be able to be as dominant or as good as you are if you were out there like, I don't, am I good

tonight? Yeah. Exactly. So that's called confidence. Cut, cut it out. How about that? Is it surreal

to think that you guys are in the final game? Yes. I mean, like I've dreamt of going to Olympics my

whole life, but the dream really has been getting to that go metal game. So it's still hard to believe.

It is nuts to think how many kids play ice hockey and dream of exactly what you're talking about,

making it to the Olympics. But the people who make it is such a small margin. The people who end

up getting to play in the game you are about to play in is even tinier. That's you're about to do

that. It's crazy when you put it that way. That's so nuts. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. It's

making me more excited. Now after the Olympics and after you finish your college season,

we do have the professional women's hockey league in the US. Correct. What does it mean to have

that option and the support of the league? It's awesome. I mean, it's something to look forward to

after college. There's uncertainty of what to do after college because there's a US team, but

you only get together so often. So just to have that league and it's growing at a pretty good rate,

I'm really excited. And to have that support, it's good. It's awesome.

The boom right now for women's sports in general is great. And the coolest part is, is that you

are actively a part of that. It is cool. That's so amazing. Is there anything else you want

other young women out there who want to be like Layla Edwards? What would you say to them?

I would say, you know, if you love something, even if there aren't many people that look like you

or support you, you know, you belong, I feel like loving something is enough. That's such a good

message. Now, I just want to say as a proud person who married into Cleveland Heights,

as if I have any ownership into Cleveland Heights whatsoever, I would like to think I am

because it's very cool there and I love it. I'm very proud of you. Thank you.

Yes, I am trying to speak for Cleveland Heights, but I'm going to get a nod from my husband in

the corner. There we go. Thank you so much for coming today. This is so cool. This is so cool

that you took the time to do this. I'm so sorry that we interrupted your week. I'm so annoyed.

I'm so excited to cheer you on on Thursday. Thank you. You and the entire team, we will

be cheering extra loud. Yes. So, next to my grandma, please do you want to be so amazing.

But also on behalf of Cleveland Heights, you're a part of us too. Thank you so much.

By the way, not the junior in my validation. No, I do because my husband's never said that.

It's kind of ridiculous. He's shrugging in the corner and he's like, she's

don't give her all that. She's not earned it at all. Don't give her all that. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Oh my gosh. She was saying. Look at this. Hello, how are you doing?

We brought my resident Cleveland Heights person into the frame because there's something

exciting happening. What's happening? I don't know yet. I was going to tell us.

Yes, I wanted to give you some few things before I left. This is so exciting.

Oh, I was just hyping up these jerseys literally last thing.

Yeah, you were. I was. I'm so excited.

Oh my gosh. Thank you so much. This is insane.

Okay. So you're raising on the team now. Look at that. Look at that.

This is very cool. I've got some pins too. I couldn't leave without giving you pins.

This is the whole thing. Yes. How many pins have you collected so far?

Let me see what's upwards of 30, 40, 50. I'm so excited. Well, we will be cheering you on.

Thank you. I am very, very excited. And for the record, I'm going to

that's that. Perfect. I don't think you guys need it.

One of the keys of victory against Canada. What do we got to do?

Start fast, finish strong. Well, that's simple.

All right. There we go. You guys did start fast last night. Yeah. We were talking about

they felt like they were hanging back a little bit, like a little bit of zone. Yeah. Early on,

they just were impressing very hard. No. And then you guys said just like enough of this.

That's going to end with you. Yeah. Yeah. Also, side note, do you guys fight?

The guests, but we can drop our gloves like the men. Okay. Because we don't have as good dental

insurance for the likes that they do. And we have cages. So sure. But it gets spicy like I

guess our against Italy, like we were getting into it. Like, yeah, there's a few little,

like a little bras, but it gets crazy against Canada. And I have a feeling Thursday. It'll be,

you know, more stakes. There were some like latent. Oh, yes. All I'm saying is it's like,

if you need backup, I know who to call. I'm tall. I don't think she needs your yoga. I know she

doesn't know. That's why I said, but it's good to have that. Yeah. For sure. You just let me know.

I appreciate that. Okay. Great. Um, thank you so much for coming. Thank you. It's been incredible.

Thank you for the gifts. These are amazing. Um, and you're doing it. And thank you for doing it

because you are representing so much good that everyone in the world needs to see, but including

young girls who need to see an athlete who has poured everything into them into their work.

And also to still be paying homage to where you've come from and Cleveland Heights and your

roots is so incredibly beautiful. So thank you for being the most incredible role model to young

women. Thank you so much. And good luck. Thank you. She's a two-time team USA Olympian

fresh off of her gold medal win in women's downhill skiing here at the Milan, Cortina,

Winner Olympics. She's also fresh off of her engagement scene around the world. She's a world

champion in Alpine skiing and apparently also knitting. Freesy Johnson, welcome to knocking

a lie is so incredible to be here. I am so grateful that you took the time. First of all,

congratulations. Thank you. Um, I just mentioned before we started recording, but I didn't even think

to myself. Freesy so casually was like, oh, should I put this on? And she pulled out her gold medal.

And I didn't even, I didn't even think that you would have it on you. But to see it in person

is bananas to me. Um, also, what you did, what I did ask you when you walked in was your engagement

ranking. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. I mean, you're used to Lombardy trophies. They're a

little harder to hold in your pocket. No, you're not carrying those around. Also, uh, Superbowl rings

get lost in our house. Oh, well, don't worry. It's in a, uh, a landfill somewhere in Cincinnati.

I wish I was kidding. Um, I think maybe it would be fun to, uh,

see both sets of hardware that you have. So if you want to, if we could just get a close-up

on your ISO, look at those two pieces of hardware together. Are you kidding? Stop it.

Okay, for anyone who hasn't seen the clip of your engagement, we have it right here. Your fiance

Connor proposes at the finish line of the Super G event. Let's see it.

It worked so hard and it cheaped so much. And yet you still find the time to love me,

to make me feel special and most importantly, you help me. Does it make you tear up a little bit?

And now that I know what that feels like, there's only one way I want to spend the rest of my life.

And that is by your side. He looks great about this. Will you marry me?

You forever get to remember his words because I am on record saying that I blacked out.

I have no idea what my husband said. I know he asked me to marry him, but I forget

all the things that led up to it. Yeah. I mean, even right afterwards,

they were like, what did he say? And I was like, I don't know. I was just crying from the clip.

Is it true that you always wanted to get engaged with the Olympics?

So not always. But when I went to my first games, there was rumors that like one of my teammates

was going to get engaged. And I kind of just like stuck in the back of my head. I didn't,

wasn't anybody at the time, wasn't on the horizon. But I was like, that'd be cool.

And then like thinking through it further, like, I mean, obviously the Paris Games,

there were so many really cool love stories that came out. And I was like, yeah, I feel like

that'd be pretty cool. It's great. And then you did it. Was your fiance aware that you liked that

idea? Yes, I did tell him that I had always kind of had that idea. And then about a year

ago, he was like, okay, so like, are you serious about this? Because he was like, I need to plan.

There was a lot of a lot of people that he had to get the say so from. He had to move around

the Italian president to avoid to get into the finish on the day. And yeah, so it was very

logistically challenging for him. And yeah, but he pulled it off. Yeah, he did. How surprised

were you on a scale of 1 to 10? Well, I mean, it was like a two or a three, because I knew it was

coming. But when he came over, I'm like, I have like the ring box. And it doesn't look like a

traditional ring box. I was like, oh, he's got like a cute little note or something like this is

adorable. And then he opened it up and got on one knee. And I just started crying. So yeah,

that's so perfect. Well, when you posted the pictures afterwards, the photo you shared,

your ring box has the lyrics from Taylor's song, The Alchemy. Yes, we all know that.

For anyone who somehow doesn't know what happened next, can you please share?

So at some points between Ben and our dinner time, somebody at Taylor's team saw it.

Priya assumed told Taylor, she was like, oh, that's adorable. And then she wrote my favorite

lyric from the song, which is, where's the trophy? He just comes running over to me. Congratulations

as a comment on my post. And then we were at dinner and the girls were like, like, she commented,

like, Taylor's have commented. And I was like, on what? And then they were like, on your post.

And I was like, and then I went in and I don't know, for some reason, Instagram didn't

automatically put it at the top, which seems like summer. Instagram should just do that

automatically. But so it's like scrolling, scrolling. And then I was like, oh, my God,

that is on my post. How dare they bury the lead like that? That's ridiculous to hide that comment.

I do love your response as well. You said, I don't know what's better Olympic gold or this

comment sourdough engagement gift, please. Would you would love to teach you to ski? Is this

further down the rundown me admitting my skiing story? Perfect. The first time I ever skied,

we were in Aspen and we went to a mountain. And then I found out there was not a single green run

on that mountain. And there wasn't even a bunny hill. And we ended up on a blue run with my husband

going, just just get on your edges. And I was like, the fuck is an edge? So it went great.

I maybe I've gotten better, I think. Jason, would you would you like to agree with that?

I mean, we were on a bunny hill last time we were there. And I did better. I didn't fall down.

I didn't fall down. Needless to say, can I join your ski lesson? Of course. Okay, great. Yes.

Because I'm not the best skier. That's okay. I'm actually pretty bad at skiing. But I can hit a

pizza pretty hard all the way down the hill. Yeah. That's where you start. Great. Just annihilate my hips.

No, I'm going to take a wild guess. Are people already asking you about the wedding? Yes. That's

crazy. That's crazy behavior. Yeah, they asked me within five minutes. And I, yeah,

actually, the only day that I knew was maybe sort of this one. Yes. We had to get through this.

Now we'll make another decision. Do you have any thoughts on wedding planning?

I mean, a great answer. We've talked a little bit, I guess. I'd like it. I think in the fall,

and we're talking about doing it in Jackson, which is where I'm from. That's awesome.

In due time, guys, they all have plans in due time. You leave them be.

Now, I did see that you and Connor met on Bumble. That is true. And from a Tinder couple,

I can deeply appreciate that. So well done. Thank you. Is Bumble also a swipe situation?

Correct. Yes. Yeah. We swiped our way right in. Yeah. I feel good about it. Yeah. Yeah.

The Bumble is the whole thing with Bumble was that you messaged first, right?

Yes. The way what was your message? Good one. I know. Right. I'm sorry. I forget about which one's which.

Yeah. So he was, he had like Noah Khan, like his mute, some of his music tastes.

And I'm a big Noah Khan fan. So, and I had just been to like a little concert of his that they

did for Michaela Schifrin. So I was like, oh, it's just that a little Noah Khan concert.

So then it really intrigued him. He's like, can I come?

He was definitely like, yeah, I think I should probably try to figure out again in here.

That's perfect. Yeah. Okay. You did better than me. I messaged first, but on Tinder. Yeah.

Yeah. And it was, I didn't pick up lines. It was good. It was good enough that we're married

with four kids. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it also wasn't great. But also, I mean, it must have been

something on Tinder for you to message him first. He was probably, oh, it was just, it was funnier.

That way, it wouldn't have been as funny if he was like, Hey, what's up?

I had to hit him with the pickup line first. Yeah. You got to go in strong. So I appreciate

that bottle does which pickup line. My first one was I need life fuller. I've fallen for you and I

can't get up. Very funny. Thank you. You can do better than that. And then I said, if I told you,

I worked for UPS, would you let me handle your package? Yeah. That's great.

Okay. Now, I also got to ask you about the other piece of hardware, that gold medal.

Once again, congratulations. I was just watching your gold medal run. And it is insane.

It's incredible. I don't even, and I told you when you first walked in, I'm winter sports dumb.

Because I didn't grow up in a winter sports family, which is why I failed so hard at skiing.

This run was unreal. This is your first ever medal, correct? From the Olympics. Yes. And it's gold.

Yeah. I mean, so I qualified to the team in 2018 going into this games. I was like, this may be

kind of my last games at the top of my game, although ski racers' careers are going longer and

longer. And yeah, it was definitely like a crazy full circle moment. It was, you know, I just kind of

kept coming back to like trying to execute my plan, trying to execute my run. And by four

hundreds of a second, which is very, very small amount of time, I pulled it out.

It's so good. How did you feel in that moment? Doing it is like, it's real, like skiing is a

really cool sport because you're doing a lot of mental physics at 80 miles an hour. So it's very

physical and very mental. You're trying to figure out the right line. You're trying to figure out

how to ski it. You're trying to time everything correctly. But you're also resisting up to four

g's of force and trying to avoid the nets, which are very hard and not fun to hit. So yeah,

doing it, it's a very, I call it like the feeling of being alive. I think that people that

do sports that they really love. I think that that's a lot of what kind of brings them back to it

is that that feeling of being fully in the moment of being connected between mind and body. And

so that's kind of why I love skiing. It's, it's something that I will, I will never get anywhere

close to you now as proud of your own skis. But watching you do it is one of the most impressive

things. Now, one of my favorite clips from the entire Olympics so far, you were asked the day,

you won, how you plan to celebrate. And we have the clip of that. How are you planning on

celebrating tonight? I'm not really sure yet. I haven't even had lunch. So I just like to get

some food to start. That's such an important take. Yeah. What did you end up having for lunch?

So I ended up having pumpkin risotto. It was actually funny because we got, I mean, we ran

it like 1130. So it was kind of too early for lunch. So I really hadn't eaten since breakfast.

That clip was taking around three. And I got back at like 430. That's too much time. Yeah,

I like texted ahead and I was like, can I have the pumpkin risotto? They have really good pumpkin

risotto. And the servers were like, no, it's too late. Like we don't have the lunch menu anymore.

And like one of my, one of our staff members was like running around like, she just want a gold

medal. She can have the pumpkin risotto. So eventually they got me the pumpkin risotto.

That's such a good team member. Yeah. Good job because that's important.

Also, how did you end up celebrating your gold medal?

So we had a team toast that night and we, you know, all got around and everybody said

heartfelt things and we cried some more. And then we still had more racing to do. So it was

still a pretty early night in and just hung out with my now fiance and went to bed at like 930.

Right back to it. Yeah. Um, I also mentioned this in your intro, but I have to ask you about the

knitting. Yeah. So I'm a big knitter. Um, I tried to knit a new hat or headband for every race.

So yeah, I have a couple of them here somewhere, but I don't think they're in this room specifically,

which is unfortunate. Um, but yeah, I, I liked to knit and I knit a lot like before competition

is just to calm down and then, um, yeah, it kind of became a superstition because I started having

new, whenever I had new knits in the finish, then I did well. And even if I liked the knits

and I wore them again, then I wouldn't do well. So then it,

knew that it had to stick with it. But now I have way too many knits. Now, are you knitting

with like traditional knitting needles? Yes. So how do you feel you're saying you make headbands and

hats? How do you feel about the looms that you just crank? That feels like cheating. Um, I don't

mind it as cheating. I don't, I do a lot of complex knits. So a lot of twisted and I don't think you

can do that. I'm a loom. So, um, but no, I mean, I, I think whatever craft people want to do is great.

Which hat or headband are you most proud of? Do you have a favorite? There is a favorite. There's

a white one that I'm really proud of. It's got like a cool basket weave and, um, these like,

diagonal, I do a lot of diagonal ones. But the one that Connor was wearing in the finish, like,

that one is also one of my favorites. Okay. Now, the idea of you not wearing

them again and needing a new knit, it speaks to the superstitious

person in me. Yeah. Deeply. That's why I have a chunk of wood here

because I was needing to knock on it earlier. Yeah. Yep. You never know. Um, so you would say it's

a superstition at this point, not to wear the same one. Oh, yeah. It's definitely a superstition.

So much. Do you have any other superstitions? I have lucky socks. I have to, I have to

fist bump my physio and my ski technician once before I go in the gate. It's just so perfect.

Um, I'm a big stomper. So I have to stomp before I go, yeah, there's, do you do one of your

lucky socks on before the other one? Like do you have a specific foot? No, I also like, I did have

to draw the line at wearing them dirty. So sure, it's their dirty than I have to wear something else.

But, okay. Let's talk to that. Yeah. Sure. But no, I'm pretty superstitious generally.

I love it so much. I have the same. Wow. Um, how do like, let's just say hypothetically,

if someone wanted to commission you for a headband, you got like an Etsy store. Do I just ask you

here? You can just ask me. I can definitely send you one. Your people can talk to my people,

which is just me. Um, but yeah, I mean, it's also like at this point, I need so many of them

for the finish. So I'm like, curious if it's okay if I wear one in the finish and then give it to you.

Yes. Aggressively yes. Um, for all of your fans and all the new fans you've gained throughout

the Winter Olympics, what's next for you? So we have more World Cup races. Um, ski racing is

a little bit like Formula One. We have races every weekend. And then, um, you know, every four

years, we go one of them is the Olympics. And so now we go back and at the end of the year, we'll have

the Chris, we have Crystal Globe, which are like, you know, the overall champion. So those are

really big deals. So, um, off to go try to win one of those and then, and then probably a beach

vacay. That's the spirit. Okay. Now, the last question for you, Breezy, and I love to talk to

female athletes about this. Um, how can we get more girls into skiing? So for one, I mean, obviously,

Olympic success has always like inspired young athletes. Um, I work with a couple of great

organizations, share winter and cooms outdoors, which works in Jackson to get underprivileged

kid skiing. It's, I understand that there's huge beard entry with skiing. And I think we're working

to try to bring some of those costs down and get more people into it. Um, I think, you know,

I love skiing. I love to see people in sports. And so also if people are like, I live in Alabama,

and I just love skiing. It's like, well, maybe try some water skiing or something. Like, I'm not,

you know, I'm not going to, if people get, if people get moving and they get doing something

that they love, I think that there's a sport for everyone. The other thing I want to ask is,

how can they follow in your footsteps to be a gold medalist? Like, what would you say is your

biggest advice to end up doing what you've done? So one piece of advice that I think was really

big for me is from an early age, I skiing equipment's really important. It's probably one of the,

one of the reasons that you were struggling with your skiing the first time is that a lot for

blaming a lot of equipment out there is really not very good, especially rental equipment.

Perfect. So that's what it was. Um, so I always worked from a young age to make sure that my

equipment was consistent and as good as I could get it, which it's not not that good now that I

know what I'm looking at, but still much better than a lot of people and to have it consistent

every day, like, allowed me to have something stable under my feet that I could progress with.

And then also, I mean, I think you as any athlete, you have to be able to find joy in the process,

find joy in the work because, you know, it's taken me 30 years and I just got my first one of these

and it's really cool, but you can't survive 30 years before it unless you enjoy the work that

goes into it. And so find joy in the process, find meaning in the process and that'll help get

you there. Well, thank you so much for coming to do this. Taking time out of your very busy schedule.

I always like to tell female athletes, I, we have four daughters and so seeing athletes who are

doing this is such an incredible thing for our girls to get to see and get to, um, aspire to,

or even just cheer you guys on. So thank you so much and congratulations on everything. Thank you.

Yeah. All right. And that's a wrap on the first of our two Olympic episodes of Not Gonna Lie.

You'll be able to find even more clips from my longer conversation with Leila and Breezy on my

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Thank you. That's so perfect. Oh, thank you so much. Yeah. Oh my gosh, you spelled Elliot right.

That's impressive. I did my best. Oh, thank you. I had a question for Connor actually. Um,

what happened? Was there a backup plan in case. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you had one just in case.

We're confident going into it. I'm sure. Okay.

Yeah. So there are several backup plans. One, we didn't know if she was going to qualify for

the Super G at first. So I had multiple plans depending on which race was going to be your last.

And then I mean, even at the Super G, I'm not sure how where you guys are, but she crashed. So

um, that was a pretty, pretty hectic moment where I didn't know if she was even coming down to

the finish line. Right. So luckily, the best part of that day was she got up pretty much unscathed.

So the backup plan though was if she was not feeling it in the moment, um, I did have a little

engagement party put together back at the hotel. Um, so we would have pivoted to that.

And then worst case scenario, if I needed to do it in the hospital, I would have done it there.

So, um, I'm so glad you're in.

I literally, I just love that we're like disembodied voices.

This is a women's morning, women's pockets. We just have the men's

in the quarry. I just love a random microphone. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.