Douglas Family Gold: Finale
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 5 July 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS WEEK'S EPISODE
This week on Douglas Family Gold (S1 E5), Jessica, Spencer and Spanny recap the episode and discuss:
- The episode extra where Coach Christian is seen and heard!
- Recap (5:00)
- Gymnastics fact checking machine went into overdrive during the competition scenes
- We ignore that it's mathematically impossible for Gabby to beat Simone.
- The definition of what constitutes success for Gabby changes 7 million times.
- Did Natalie fulfill her vision to show ,"What it takes to ….what goes on behind the scenes to support an elite athlete, and, for me as a mom, to support my other children at the same time.” (31:47)
- We examine which of our deepest fears and greatest hopes from the preview podcast came true. (36:00)
- What do the Dougies need to do to make this a hit show next season? (46:00)
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CONTEST WINNER!
Our winner is, Ryan Landon on Instagram for Simone Hu! Email us to claim your prize. Honorable mention in the Name the Gabby Drag Queen contest goes to these:
- Cheryl
- Fab E. Fierce
- Betty Okaynow
- Geralen Packs Heat-in
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- 171: Women’s Team Finals Recap from 2015 World Championships
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- 169: Glasgow Worlds Preview Show
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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. |
| 0:05.6 | This is season 1 episode 6, the finale titled The World Championships in Scotland. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the official, unofficial Douglas Family Gold Podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | Brought to you by Gymcastic, the number one gymnastics podcast in the world. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spanny's Big Fake Smile, |
| 0:23.7 | Spencer from the balance scene situation and we are going to recap the show and |
| 0:27.8 | discuss then when we're done recapping whether or not we think Natalie |
| 0:32.2 | fulfilled her vision for the show, which was show what |
| 0:36.8 | it takes behind the scenes. |
| 0:39.4 | What goes on to support an elite athlete as a mom, support their children to get an elite athlete as a mom support their children to get an elite |
| 0:44.5 | athlete to this level. So contemplate that while we discuss. But first, Gabby's |
| 0:50.9 | going to be at trials last week. |
| 0:52.6 | God was already last week. |
| 0:54.4 | She was at National Championships. |
| 0:56.0 | Placed fourth. |
| 0:57.5 | Fourth. |
| 0:58.5 | Did better than last year. |
| 1:00.1 | Better than last year where she placed fifth all around and then became a silver medalist in the entire world, |
| 1:06.5 | this year fourth all around. So I'm going to say probably she's on track to kill it in Rio right now. |
| 1:13.4 | And let's also discuss our contest winner. |
| 1:18.6 | So we are going to read some of our favorites from our Gabby was naming our Gabby drag queen or |
| 1:26.5 | Drag princess who was on the show last week Stefan so and thank you everybody for your |
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