Winter Olympics 2018 and NBC

Anyone else watching the Winter Olympics? For Shalom Bayit purposes we got a second TV during the 2012 Olympics because I'm a fan and my husband is not. In past years I've watched a lot more but this year I just watch as much as he tolerates and then we move on to something else.

I'm watching the coverage for these games and it's amazing to me how the NBC morning anchors are able to shift from one story to the next. One minute they're covering the Florida shooting and then they discuss the latest and greatest moments of the action in Pyeongchang.

I find it hilarious that the announcers keep talking about Lindsey Vonn's age and how ancient she is at 33. Shaun White is 31 with a heart condition and no one is talking about his retirement. I know she's saying this is her last Olympics and she's very emotional about it but isn't it more that she's been through a bunch of surgeries and injuries rather than her age being the issue?

I'm very impressed with Savannah Guthrie pulling a double duty and anchoring Today and Nightly News while Lester Holt has the flu. I also followed Dylan Dreyer and her husband on Instagram and it was cute how excited they all were to have her home. I feel bad for Savannah and Hoda who have to be away from their babies for two weeks. They're working really hard and it seems like they're not so into it, especially since their news reports are peppered with updates from the Florida shooting. Plus there's a 14 hour time difference so they're shooting a morning show at 9:00 PM in the dark.

I'm not sure when I became an NBC loyalist. I started watching right around the time Meredith left. I watched the entire Ann Curry debacle unfold in real time and that's when I started disliking Matt Lauer #TeamAnn. Two years later, though NBC screwed over Conan O'brien and at that time I was definitely not feeling the NBC love #Team Coco but clearly I got over it.

Not only do I watch Today when I can, but most of my peers do also. Sometimes we'll discuss an outfit or a story we saw. No one I know watches GMA or CBS with whatever version they have. Even my clinic has it on in the waiting room.

I talk about these people like I know them which I suppose is exactly what their marketers love to hear. But I bet if I met one in person they wouldn't be nearly as excited to meet me as I would be to meet them.