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The Cripescast Podcast

Episode 72 - Ahalya Lettenberger

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Paralympic silver medalist Ahalya Lettenberger joins Charlie on the Cripescast this week to talk about competing in the Olympics, growing up as an athlete with arthrogryposis, and life in the Midwest.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Krebscast. I'm your host, Charlie

0:03.1

Barons. This is the podcast where we talked to people for and

0:06.2

or from the Midwest. This week, my guest is Paralympian,

0:10.4

Ahalia Lettenberger. She is from the great state of Illinois,

0:14.4

ladies and gentlemen. Does that make her a bear's fan?

0:16.8

No, you'll have to find out in our conversation coming up.

0:20.8

But it was great talking to Ahalia. Actually, we met at the

0:24.6

Brewer's game of few weeks. I can't remember when was I

0:29.0

guest up drinking. Anyway, she was throwing out the first pitch.

0:31.9

And I was there and we bumped into each other and I said,

0:35.0

can I wear your medal or no? And she will let me wear it,

0:38.4

which was very nice of her. And then I said, do you want to be a

0:41.2

guest on the Krebscast? And she says, yes. So we're honored to

0:44.4

have her. By the way, those Olympic medals, let me tell you

0:47.5

that's their weapons. Okay. Honestly, like, you know, those

0:50.4

throwing stars, you know, this is probably less bad as than

0:54.4

throwing star because there's no point. But if someone throws a

0:57.0

medal at you, an Olympic medal, you're going to have a bump

1:00.4

on the noggin. I'll tell you that right now. So yeah,

1:03.8

that our conversation is coming up real quick here. Also,

1:07.9

in my hand right now is a copy of the Midwest Survival Guide.

1:12.1

It's a book I've been working on for the past year. If you've

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