441: Gymnastics Commentary Hall of Shame (Commissioned)

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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This week's episode has been commissioned by AnnaMarie, who asked for an episode all about gymnastics commentators—the good, the bad, and the ugly. TBH, we mostly did the ugly part.

HALL OF SHAME

Sexually inappropriate comments about minors: Nope.
Sexually inappropriate comments about adults: Double nope.
Infantilizing adults and calling them little girls: Triple nope.
Weight Shaming: The Monica Phelps Chapter
Being weirdly obsessed with adoption: The Al Trautwig Chapter
Tragic moments in college commentary
Tragic moments in putting on accents

GYMCASTIC'S OFFICIAL BROADCAST DOs and DON'Ts

18 Dos and (mostly) Don'ts for gymnastics broadcasts concerning comparing gymnasts to dented cars, being the smile police, "Bela's girls," and talking about a gymnast's "personality."

BANNED WORDS AND PHRASES

From "supple" to "weight" to "international look" to "ancient" to "4 inches wide," we have some words and phrases that are hereby banned from gymnastics commentary.
The most important message for any commentator to reiterate before they begin broadcasts re smashing the patriarchy for the witches they couldn't burn.

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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.
0:04.8	Today, our terrible commentator Hall of Shame,
0:10.0	Troutwig, Monica Phelps, that SEC guy, Dick Enberg, are rules for commentating how to do it correctly.
0:17.6	It's gymnastics commentators, the good, the bad, and the Ugly, Mostly Ugly, A Commission.
0:25.0	This is episode 441 for September 30, 2020, and welcome to the Number One Gymnastics
0:30.6	podcast in the Galaxy.
0:32.2	I'm Jessica, and I'm here with Spencer from
0:34.5	the balance theme situation and there will be profanity in this episode so I'd like to reiterate I've had a lot of coffee you know I'm very
0:46.0	passionate about smashing the patriarchy so I'm going to talk about that a lot and yeah so Spencer tell us a little bit about this commission.
0:56.0	This episode was commissioned by Anna Marie who asked for an episode all about gymnastics,
1:02.0	the good, the bad, and the ugly.
1:04.6	And like Jessica mentioned,
1:05.8	we mostly focused on the bad and the ugly parts.
1:08.6	But we, you know, we're gonna talk about,
1:11.6	what we didn't wanna do was just fawn over Ollie and
1:14.1	Kathy Johnson the whole time and like the people we like are good you got.
1:18.9	But yeah, so this is gonna be really fun.
1:22.3	We came up with some dues in addition to many, many don'ts.
1:26.8	We're very proud of ourselves, you guys.
1:29.0	So proud of ourselves.
1:30.0	A moment of positivity.
1:31.5	And I would just like to, first of all, thank Anna Marie for this. of deliver our weekly podcast, do live shows and we can do that again, do our in-person meet coverage, travel to Japan next year for the Olympics, go to a national team camps like we did in January.
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