Behind The Scenes: How the Chae Campbell Interview Really Happened
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The weekly Q&A episode where we answer your questions and talk about what's it's like to do this for a living.
This Behind the Scenes episode dives into everything we couldn't fully unpack on the main feed — from major NCAA coaching shakeups and transfer portal chaos, ranking debates, and the questions everyone's asking but no one is answering clearly.
We're breaking down:
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The latest coaching moves across NCAA gymnastics
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What's actually happening in the transfer portal (and why it's so confusing)
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Misconceptions about our live show process
- GYMCASTIC LIVE Featuring: CHAE CAMPBELL – Get replay tickets here
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Ranking inconsistencies that still make no sense
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Big-picture issues like access, money, and who gets to do gymnastics
Plus: your questions, hot takes, and the conversations that don't make it into the main version of the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to know what goes on on our extra podcast every week? |
| 0:04.4 | Here's a little taste for you. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, I was saying, like, we should, like, I wanted to have more behind the scenes to say about, like, Shay's live show or, like, how it came to be, or what we talked about. |
| 0:20.6 | But there's kind of not a story there. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to Jimcastic behind the scenes. |
| 0:29.7 | This is the weekly Q&A podcast that we do to answer your questions for our club |
| 0:35.1 | gym nerd members who support us all year long. |
| 0:43.1 | Also after competitions, we go live, immediate reactions like classic nationals and Rotterdam for world championships. And today is May 1st. And you may have heard we had a live show |
| 0:49.3 | with Shay Campbell and it was amazing and really fun. And you can get a replay ticket and watch it now. |
| 0:58.1 | If you missed it when it happened and if your club gym member like you guys are who are watching right now, |
| 1:02.7 | get $5 off with your club member login. Here is a little sample from the live show. And if you're |
| 1:09.7 | not a visual listener, you might hear just a lot of yelling because there's a lot of yelling and laughter and applause because wild things happen on stage during the live shows. |
| 1:20.1 | Going past the line on floor. |
| 1:22.0 | Out of bounds. |
| 1:25.7 | Skip. |
| 1:26.6 | Skip. |
| 1:27.2 | They made it to final four, but no one kind of expected it. |
| 1:29.3 | Minnesota. |
| 1:30.3 | Brooklyn, Moore. |
| 1:33.3 | Oh, December's. |
| 1:36.3 | I want to know what your thoughts are on the growing trend of two-pass routines. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah. |
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