284: Morgan Hurd
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
INTERVIEW
This week, we have a very special chat with new world all-around champion, expert zombie-worm escaper, official badass woman, and favorite gymnast of young-adult authors the world over, MORGAN HURD. We discuss:
- Whether we're still allowed to call her Morgiboo
- Which gymnasts she fangirls out over
- If she's totally sick of people talking about her glasses yet
- All the behind-the-scenes scoop from worlds
- What she thinks about camp secrecy and possible SPIES
- What she thought about the lighting in the arena and training gym
- What happened when Ragan got injured before the AA final
- Who cried the most when she won
- Current training and TOP-SECRET upgrades
- Ideas for getting "the Hurd" in the code of points (we have a lot)
- Upcoming competition plans
- HARRY POTTER
- Which house Morgan would be in
- Morgan and Spencer throw down about Hagrid's teaching abilities
- Statues of Dobby and fuzzy sock tributes
- Which song from Hamilton would make the best floor music
- Nastia's obsession with her
- Getting confused for a child literally all the time
- How she decided on Florida
- What she thinks about NBC's "China would really love to have her" comments
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Transcript
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| 0:27.0 | Train smart with Tumbletrack. |
| 0:29.0 | Today, 2017 all around-around world champion, Morgan Heard, the Pride of Delaware is here to talk |
| 0:39.6 | about what the ranch is like under Valery, NBC, top secret upgrades, her mutant elbow powers, and |
| 0:46.7 | Harry Potter. |
| 0:47.7 | So much Harry Potter! |
| 0:49.6 | This is episode 283 for December 13th, and welcome to the number one gymnastics |
| 0:57.4 | podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and we hear with Spencer from the |
| 1:02.0 | balance beam situation. |
| 1:03.2 | We're going to get right into it and talk to Morgie Boo, the 2017 World All-round Champion, |
| 1:09.4 | in case I didn't mention that enough already. |
| 1:12.1 | She is the second elite ever I believe from the |
| 1:15.0 | diminutive state of Delaware. J.K. Rawlings favorite gymnast. She's an |
| 1:20.4 | inspiration to Glasses glasses wears everywhere. |
| 1:23.6 | Nastia may be more obsessed with Morgiboo than she is with her own fiance. |
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