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This week’s episode is commissioned by Club Gym Nerd Member Alison and her Gym Boys, Foster, Quint, Valis, and Aaron, who commissioned an episode all about THE GYMCASTIC OLYMPICS. It’s our Olympics, and we can cry if we want to. We also get to select our all-time, all-star Olympic teams without any stupid limitations like geographical borders or the concept of time—don’t worry, the power goes immediately to our heads and turns us crazy—and decide where it’s going to be held, how much AI is involved (a lot), what extra medals will be awarded that are definitely better than bars or whatever, and exactly which acts will be performed in the super tacky gala. You know, the important stuff.
Come for us drafting our all-time personal Olympic teams, stay for the fight about whether Phillip Boy is sexy enough to be in a promotional rap video for our Olympics. So yeah, it goes off the rails right quick. If you have half as much fun listening to this episode as we had recording it…
Time Stamps: The Draft (7:33), The Event (39:21), Special Teams (1:00:54), Gala (1:22:44)
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- Li Li – BB – 1993
- Casey Jo Magee – BB – 2011
- Olga Strazheva – FX – 1989
- Yelena Produnova – BB – 2000
- Svetlana Boginskaya – FX – 1989
- Catalina Ponor – facial expression – 2005
- Li Yuejiu – FX – 1981
- Raymond White – FX – 2014
- Ioannis Melissanidis – FX – 1996
- Chinese beam – Fan Ye, He Xuemei, Chen Cuiting, Li Yifang
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This was hysterical – thanks for the great episode!
FYI, I think my idea for an all-time comedy gala routine would be Kupets doing her 2004 FX routine (no tumbling – just that crazy choreography) and Abby Stack doing her 2009 car race routine (again just the choreo) while Khorkina sits on the sidelines laughing maniacally at both of them like she did at Zamo’s bars disaster at that world cup in 2001. The gala needn’t be of anything else.