202: The 2016 Men's Olympic Trials, Women's PG Championships
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 28 June 2016
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
IN THE NEWS
This week, Uncle Tim, Spencer, Lauren, and Jessica chat about:
- Men's Olympic Trials
- The Olympic Team: Sam Mikulak, Chris Brooks, Jake Dalton, Alex Naddour (aka Mr. Hollie Vise), John Orozco.
- Alternates: Danell Leyva, Donnell Whittenburg, Akash Modi
- Strategy (8:47)
- Nancy Armour vs. John Orozco drama (14:50)
- Highlights on and off the floor
- Brooks hugging OTC athlete liaison, Sherry.
- The skill Uncle Tim's gymnastics nieces have to learn before they can be in his wedding (23:54)
- NBC massive errors and generally being jerks (26:18)
- Putting down Gabby even though she's exactly on track to be at her best
- Race, poverty and sexualizing athletes
- Women's P&G Championships
- Our debate for the Gymnastics Is Hard Award (38:00)
- Injury list
- Junior analysis, favor and future super stars (50:00)
- Senior analysis (59:00)
- Who qualified to Olympic Trials for the women: Alyssa Baumann; Simone Biles; Christina Desiderio; Gabby Douglas; Brenna Dowell; Rachel Gowey; Laurie Hernandez; Amelia Hundley; Madison Kocian; Ashton Locklear; Maggie Nichols; Aly Raisman; Emily Schild; MyKayla Skinner; Ragan Smith
- Quantifying Simon's awesomeness; she's improved her senior two day total by 4.550
- An update on Simone's floor music lyrics.
- The Ranch documentary from NBC (1:31:50)
- The infamous "Kitchen Scene" where Marta tells Bela off (1:33:17)
- The F The Score Award : who made us fall in love with gymnastics (1:51:00)
- Absolute favorite moments from the entire week of gymnastics (1:56:41)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.0 | We were the very first one. |
| 0:06.0 | Whoever gonna come from now on? |
| 0:08.0 | Congratulations, great, but you're gonna be the second or two. |
| 0:12.0 | Never the first. |
| 0:13.0 | All right well that's somewhat true. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a reality, Martha. |
| 0:21.0 | Okay. Sorry, I'll let's go. Oh, baby. Today, our NBC fact-check machine is in Overdrive, the Ranch documentary recap. |
| 0:31.0 | Men's Olympic team has been announced. We have some questions about the |
| 0:34.8 | strategy. Who qualified for the women's Olympic trials? Simone Biles |
| 0:40.0 | four-time national champ and our favorite and least favorite moments from the weekend. |
| 0:45.4 | This is episode 202 for June 29th, 2016 and welcome to the number one gymnastics |
| 0:51.5 | podcast in the entire galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm here with |
| 0:56.0 | Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim talks men's gym, Lauren Hopkins from the Jim internet and |
| 1:00.4 | Spencer from the balance beam situation and we are going to recap men's trials first and then women's nationals. |
| 1:07.0 | Now we're doing this because it's the one time in the history of the world that the male |
| 1:10.9 | gymnast are more important than the women or have like a more spotlighty moment. |
| 1:16.3 | So we're going to give it to him this one time, but if you would rather skip ahead and listen to the |
| 1:21.1 | women's nationals recap first, you can do that. Just go to the women's nationals recap first you can do that just go to the |
| 1:24.4 | website or the show notes and look at the time stamps and you can find the time |
| 1:29.2 | and skip ahead there. Okay Lauren do you have a really amazing incredible announcement related to making NBC 1,000% better? |
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