Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by six-time Olympic medalist and captain of the fierce five

and final five gymnastics teams, Allie Rayzman, where I ask her, am I your favorite non-binary gardener

slash gymnast? If you are driving, you know where I'm from, they call vehicles vehicles.

So if you're in a moving vehicle, I need you to strap yourselves in and don't freak out and

don't be rough, of course, because we have like literally one of the most prolific guests

of getting curious history at Revoltime and I'm freaking out! So put your hands together and

make so much choice for Allie Rayzman! Hi! That was the best introduction I ever got,

my whole life! I'm doing much better, I have to say, now to be talking to you, I'm so excited

that you're here. I'm so excited to be on the podcast, I feel like we've been talking about this

for so long. We have, and now here's the thing, I don't, so that's literally how I reacted the

first time I met you on FaceTime when I introduced you and like the first two times I saw you

in real life. Now we are actually like IRL friends, which I think is kind of amazing.

I never thought coming that we would end up being friends and I'm so honored to be your friend.

I love being friends with you, I love our FaceTime, I love our conversations, I love our hangouts

and New York. You are literally one of my closest phone friends of all time. I feel like you and

Michelle Kwan are right there for like I have to pinch myself and my face hurts after I think

about you too because I just can't believe that we, I just, I idolized you like since 2010,

it's been a decade since I've been obsessed with you. No, it's true, you are one of the most

prolific gymnasts of all time and I really want to talk about like all things gymnastics,

but I want to first just hit one thing that you've been Instagramming about lately that I am also

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