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Welcome to Killing Time hosted by two girls one a goth. How are we doing today?

This is the first killing time of the year. We are apart. It's not feeling right, but we're pushing through. I feel great.

100% even.

How are you feeling, Billy? I'm feeling, uh, I don't know, a little, I got the heat on in my house for the first time ever, and it's a little warm in here.

Oh, the heat on that seems very unlike you. It is.

Oh, well, today's episode, uh, because of our dark day, we're kind of feeling it all as like a 90s episode of Killing Time. It's a little bit nostalgic from the past.

Yes. A blast from the past. Which decade of that year of your past that is, I don't know, but we're going to dive right in. So what is a dark day today?

Billy. Today is January 6th and in 1994, this was the day that Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was attacked at a Detroit ice rank after a practice session.

And this was just two days before the Olympic trials. Do you remember this?

No, you don't. This was bonkers. What happened? What year did it happen? It was 94.

Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't say I remember it as like, I know I remember every detail, but I remember it happening.

I remember it being like the biggest thing in the entire world happening when I was like seven years old.

So, and part of it was caught on, on video. Now there were two skaters at the time that were, that were rivals.

One was Nancy Kerrigan, sort of the all American girl. Yeah.

Yeah. Very graceful skater. The other was Tanya Harding. Now Tanya Harding didn't have much money.

She was sponsored, I think, by like George Steinbrunner had given her money.

And she, she skated very aggressively. She wasn't necessarily a great, a graceful skater.

So they, you know, Tanya Harding saw Nancy as a threat. And her ex-husband,

approached, who's a guy named Jeff Galuli, which by the way became a big punchline in all of, you know,

Letterman and everything like that. He approached a guy named Sean Eckert about eliminating

Kerrigan from the competition. So Tanya would win and then be able to go on to the Olympics.

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