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All right, everybody. We're rolling. Welcome to Yuppet still. Very excited this week. We have joining us an

Olympian, a medal winner of this year's Winter Olympics. He's a fancy boy close. Welcome. God damn. Oh, Lord. Oh, oh my God. Look at it. Look at it. Is it? Is that what? Well, that's beautiful. Beijing bronze. Let me. It's a bronze. Nice. You think you think the bronze looks gold until you see the gold. I mean, that's

good. Damn. And, you know, I really appreciate your outfit right now. I just want to get that out of the way. People aren't seeing this, but you did turn on your zoom and you're wearing a skiing onesie right now. You're in Slovenia, right? Not an Olympic dorm. It's just an apartment, but it's I'm sharing it with the American ski jumpers. Oh, yeah, I should mention that you compete in the ski jumping. And which is pretty crazy, honestly. Like I'm going to have a lot of questions. I'm going to be

to me. That's like one of the wildest of all Olympic sports in terms of what do you say it's probably the most dangerous? Like I feel like it's probably the most dangerous. I think it used to be when it started like when it became an Olympics sport in like 1924 and back then it was really dangerous, but now it's like. Pretty safe. The equipment's pretty high tech like safety wise. So I mean, I think it's one of those where it's like a sport that's the furthest stretch of imagination to.

Being able to do that as an amateur person like even me like ice ski and I still like when I watch you guys do the jumps I'm like I don't know like when.

They start learning to do that it's such a huge gap between doing a tiny little jump on skis and you where you're like flying for.

Like over 10 seconds. I don't know the normal how long do you like are you in the air?

The term, but I heard somebody at the Olympics mentioned a term about like starting age. Yeah. Now like oh your sport has like a very early starting age like you have to be young to start doing it.

Well, when did you start? I started when I was like seven years old. Oh shit. I think in like from what I've gathered like if you start after 12 it's like pretty difficult to do it. So you start after 12 year. You're you're you're washed. Yeah, basically. I don't know.

Well, wait. This wasn't your first Olympics either. Was it this is number four for me. Oh wow. How old were you on your first one?

I was 18. Wow. Oh shit. Barely. I do.

You by all. It was just a theme park for me at that point. I didn't know what was going on.

So you've yeah, I mean you've been on the road for this like your entire life. Like when did it start for you? What was who got you into it in the first place?

Well, I like when I started out seven. It was just like a summer camp that my mom just saw like an ad in the paper that was like they were trying to recruit kids and like I didn't notice at the time. But now now knowing like the sport is like basically dead in Canada.

And that's been like the sole way that they got athletes was just through like advertising and recruitment programs because they didn't have they had almost no facilities and like no.

No real program. So it was like an ad like come jump with us. I was like okay.

You're just like we've been we've been through the the paper. Yeah, I was fingering the dailies. Wow. I mean that's actually pretty insane to like send your kid off to do ski jumps with like a from a mystery classified ad.

Yeah, I mean there in the city where I grew up in Calgary there. They're like kind of a like a you know.

It's landmark I guess of the city. So everybody knows where the ski jumps are. But when you're that young you start on like the smallest one and it's pretty harmless at the start.

And then slowly the your coaches like I think you're ready for the next one and you're like okay cool. And then next thing you know you've been doing it for your whole life and you're on a podcast like talking about it.

Yeah, I mean you you're talking about it pretty casually after like literally just getting back from winning an Olympic medal. Yeah, you're very chill about this.

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