The Olympics

Who cares? Not me.

I'm not a sports guy. I don't follow any teams - I guess I'm just a music guy. Music is my thing and sports is not. I leave that to my brother.

But here's the deal.

Why on earth did the Olympic committee, in all of their vast wisdom, pick Vancouver for a location? It RAINS all the time in Vancouver. All the time. It rains so much that Vancouver has the highest population for depression in all of Canada.

It's raining now. It's almost washing out Whistler. The staff are covering the hills because it's ice on top from the rain and pools of water at the bottom. I thought Whistler was the king of ski hills but the Olympics are a weather-related event and if it rains - it's a wash-out.

Calgary - great choice. Vancouver? Hahaha - it rains!

Think of all that money spent to construct a new highway - the only highway - to take people on the two-hour trek from Vancouver to Whistler. It's a coastal highway - it's the only highway and two years ago it was in such poor condition they had to rebuild it - just for the Olympics. I'm not sure if the mountain slide happened before or after the construction.

Vancouver. Yeeesh. Have you driven through Vancouver? It's a traffic jam all day. It's worse than Seattle. Driving. Rain.

Now I heard on CTV news that people who live in Vancouver don't even care about the Olympics. It's an "out of town" thing. The "man on the street" suggested that residents don't know much about what's going on and it starts in less than two weeks?

Remember the summer Olympics in China two years ago. The incredible fireworks that lit up the city skyline? It was amazing. And then we found out it was studio produced! Half of what spectators saw didn't even happen!

How much money do they spend on the Olympics? The new stadiums, the hotels, the "Village", the promotional advertising? How much money do big advertisers spend during the Olympics that maybe nobody cares about. My goodness I hope they made a lot of money on those stylin' red mittens coz Canada is gonna be paying off this misadventure for decades.

Ok, I watch a tiny wee bit. The gymnastics. That's it. I guess you might say I'm not a big fan.

So, uh, who's on Larry King tonight?