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Welcome to Gymcastic, episode 8.

I am Jessica Oberne from Masters Hyphen Gymnastics.

com, and I'm joined by Blythe Lawrence

with the Gymnastics Examiner.

Spanny Tamsin from Spanny's Big Fake's Mow.

And Uncle Tim from Uncle Tim talks men's gym.

And Devorah is dealing with the storm this week, so we wish her the best. And you guys can tweet at her and tell her you're thinking about her.

She'll hopefully join us next week of the week after.

So this week, we have an interview with Germain,

who's the artistic director and a choreographer

for the show and also a dancer on the tour.

And we're also going to talk to Jill Hicks,

who is a long-time NCAA coach and now chaperone on the tour.

So we're going to talk to them later. We also have some very interesting listener feedback that confirms everything we heard about

uh... nb c's translations of the horkina interview but it's it's interesting we'll

discuss that all uh... it's not maybe not as one-sided as we think.

Before we get started with the news this week, I have two really exciting announcements.

One is that there's an article in the New York Times on November 1st called

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