How Does Figure Skating Give Us Life? with Michelle Kwan and Eliot Halverson

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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

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🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

We’re gliding into the new year with the re-release of an episode from February 2019 with figure skating’s finest: Michelle Kwan and Eliot Halverson. Michelle and Eliot join Jonathan to talk all things skating: judging scandals, big coats, tracing figures, and Jonathan’s journey on the ice. Michelle Kwan is an American figure skater, two-time Olympic medalist, five-time world champion, and nine-time US champion. Eliot Halverson is an American figure skater, choreographer, and three-time USFS national champion. Follow Eliot Halverson on Instagram @eliothalverson and Michelle Kwan on Twitter and Instagram @MichelleWKwan. Find out what today’s guests 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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Venice and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation
0:05.5	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.9	This week we're re-releasing an episode from February 2019.
0:13.7	That's one of my favorite of all times with iconic figure skater Michelle Kwan who is the most decorated American figure skater of all time and
0:23.5	Elliott Halverson who is a
0:25.5	three-time US national champion get out of my face where I ask them how does figure skating give us life?
0:37.2	Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Venice. If you're not sitting down if you're driving a motor vehicle
0:43.9	I just want you to be careful because well here's a thing. I feel like I may have oversold one guess
0:49.7	And I don't want to make anyone feel any kind of type of way and I know that I'm not
0:52.5	There's two people in the room right now actually three including myself, which we've never done before and I'm really like building this up
1:00.6	So, okay, you may know that she's been skating a lot lately and the person responsible for like teaching me like
1:08.7	Everything I know in real life is this little baby girl, Elliott Halverson who's right to my left
1:13.8	I love so much. She's got new hair. We're obsessed
1:17.1	However, if you've known me for a little bit longer than the last two months, you would also know
1:22.9	Why you should be sitting down for what I'm about to say
1:26.5	Across from Elliott and I
1:28.5	Is
1:29.5	None other then
1:31.8	Michelle quant. Oh my god. Hello
1:35.5	You're the cutest. No, we're just gonna let you guys like gather
1:38.4	I know that you're like wigglass breathless everyone's feeling personally attacked by the
1:44.5	severity of
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