Interview: Adam Rippon, Olympic Figure Skater and U.S. National Champion

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode, Jessica Luther talks to Olympic figure skater and Dancing with the Stars champion Adam Rippon about queerness in figure skating, the challenge of making a living as a skater, everything that happened with Russian skaters at the Beijing Winter Olympics, his transition from competition to media and what inspired his costume design while he was on the ice. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down. Today, I am joined by the baby's to the screaming shout. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
0:10.4	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need. Jessica here. Today, I am joined by the one and only Adam Rupon. I don't know that he needs an introduction, but I'll be a responsible
0:21.5	host and tell you that he is an Olympic figure skater who won a bronze medal in 2018.
0:26.4	He is also a Dancing with the Stars champion. And as I saw People magazine put it, a television
0:32.0	personality. He's been in a Taylor Swift video and guest hosted RuPaul's Drag Race. He's also an author.
0:38.9	His memoir, Beautiful on the Outside, came out in 2019.
0:42.7	Adam, welcome to run it all down.
0:45.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:47.2	What a lovely bio.
0:48.9	Thank you for being responsible.
0:50.4	You're welcome.
0:51.4	I can't help it.
0:53.8	So I always like to start at the beginning. And so I want to know,
0:56.9	how did you get into figure skating? Well, so I live in California now, but I'm originally from
1:06.2	Scranton, Pennsylvania. And so in Scranton, we have, you know, really cold winters. So every winter,
1:14.9	sounds terrible. It is a lot different than the winters I experience now. So every winter,
1:20.4	my mom would take me ice skating and every winter I hated it and never wanted to go.
1:26.4	The only thing I wanted was a soft pretzel and a hot
1:29.1	chocolate, which, um, you can't blame me, right? It sounds delicious. Yes. And, uh, finally,
1:35.7	there was one winter where there was this person in my class and they were having a birthday party.
1:42.6	And we went to this new indoor rink and um at the rink
1:47.7	I saw people skating in the middle and in the middle if you've ever been to like a
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