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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

How Do You Do An Inward 2 ½ Twist Off A 10 Meter Diving Board And Not Shit Your Pants? with Tom Daley

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.921.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tom Daley began diving at a very young age, gaining notoriety at nine years old. In 2008, at 14, he represented Great Britain as their youngest competitor in the Beijing Summer Olympics. He went on to compete in the 2012 London and 2016 Rio games picking up 2 bronze medals along the way. He invited Jonathan into his home to discuss all things diving, his husband Dustin Lance Black and their baby boy Robbie (who makes a tiny cameo) and the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics! Follow Tom on Instagram @TomDaley and on Twitter @TomDaley1994. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vines and every week I sit down for a 40 minute

0:07.3

conversation with April Brilliant, expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:12.8

On today's episode, I'm joined by a world champion, Olympic medalist, and soon to be

0:18.5

four time Olympic diver Tom Daly where I ask him. How do you do an inward two and a half

0:24.2

twist off a 10 meter diving board and not shit your speedo? And we talk about a lot more

0:28.8

gorgeous stuff too.

0:35.4

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vines and I'm really excited to introduce

0:38.8

this week's guest, Icon Olympian father, Icon I know already said that we really are

0:46.4

such an icon without any further ado. Tom Daly. Hello. Ah, so picture it. Sometimes we're in a

0:53.4

recording studio when you get curious. Yes. Now I'm watching Tom Daly, Olympian Icon across

1:01.6

me in a, I don't know if it's vintage, I don't know if it's new, but in a gorgeous rocking

1:06.6

chair, honey, she is giving you like, it's the most beautiful rocking chair. It's vintage and also

1:11.9

vintage. Yeah, my husband, Lance, re-appholsted it. So he's done it. Yeah, so it's quite, it's quite

1:18.5

the rocking chair. I'm loving that I'm meeting you in this gorgeous nursery. I'm meeting you in your

1:22.9

sons and our tree. I'm in your gorgeous house in London, but we won't say we're for security purposes,

1:28.2

you know, or buried in London. Yes, we were in London. It's really so gorgeous that I'm so happy

1:32.3

to be here. Thanks for having me over. Of course. I'm glad to be here. You know, so I asked you

1:36.8

right before you started recording. It's like, you know, is it okay if we title this episode? Because

1:39.7

every episode is getting curious, I ask a question. Yes. Sometimes more serious than others.

1:44.8

And you know, this is a serious question. It's like, how do you do like an inward two and a half

1:49.6

up to 10 meter daily? Be bored and like, nah, shit your pants. It's your speedos. Yeah, yeah, no,

1:54.9

it's I can tell you right now every time I stand on that 10 meter board, I'm terrified. There's not

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