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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GYMKATA

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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GYMKATA

This week, the episode Jessica and Spencer have been training in the woods for their whole lives: Gymkata. In 1985's action film spectacular, the dear departed Kurt Thomas must travel to the very real and geographically consistent nation of Parmistan to try to survive THE GAME, a totally unnecessary obstacle course where people kill you at the very beginning. We discuss:

  • For a closed central Asian nation, everyone sure is American and can come and go as needed
  • Very 3-dimensional female characters with clear goals and lines (JKKKKKKK)
  • MULLETS
  • Men holding giant birds for no reason
  • Cool technological weapons, like a...little axe?
  • That thing where you find a dead body and hear a BOIYOINGGGGG sound
  • The most accurate depiction of US military presence in Asia ever committed to film
  • A horse just decking some dude
  • An actual character named Thorg
  • How Kurt Thomas is fully, unironically good at action movie
  • The "Village of the Crazies" and how it gets DARK
  • A guy in a white robe with the butt cut out (!)
  • And of course, the iconic town square pommel horse fight: featuring RANDOM GOAT

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Norbert's is having a sale on Domino Cartwheel blocks, use the code GymCasticMay to get a 10% discount.

0:08.5

Also, they are giving away a 48-inch sectional beam free delivery included.

0:14.2

All you have to do is follow, like, and comment on their giveaway post on Instagram.

0:19.5

It's Norbert's Athletic, and they're doing the giveaway draw on June 1st.

0:24.4

Good luck.

0:25.2

Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.

0:29.5

Today, setting forest fires a fight to the death and a racist depiction of a vaguely Soviet Muslim country,

0:38.8

offensive mental illness stereotypes, people wearing hooks for no reason,

0:44.3

sexy gymnastics moves, a random goat next to a stone pommel horse slash well in a village.

0:51.6

That's right, it's the 1985 martial arts action film starring the late great Kurt Thomas,

0:57.6

Jim Kata.

0:59.2

I'm so excited for today's episode, this is episode 19,

1:03.2

420-22, the week of May 9th.

1:06.2

I'm welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy.

1:08.9

I'm Jessica. I'm here with Spencer from the Balanced Move situation.

1:12.8

I think we've been talking about doing this episode for like six years.

1:15.8

Oh, okay. Can you give me the premise, basically, of this movie?

1:21.6

Yeah.

1:22.3

And then we'll try to look at the background.

1:24.4

Because one of the things we need to make clear is that the plot is really important.

1:29.2

It makes a lot of sense, and it's a very, it's a densely plot-based film.

1:34.8

And so I think we need to express, just make sure everyone's on the same, you know,

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