Mr. LA Leather

Nancy

WNYC Studios

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Every year, contestants spend months working on their charisma, memorizing speeches, and getting their show-stopping outfits ready to win the sash. No, this is not Miss America...this is Mr. Los Angeles Leather.

— James Kim makes podcasts at KPCC.— Pup Yoshi can be found @toddster213 on Twitter.— You can listen to both seasons of The Competition at competitionpodcast.com.Music in this episode by Jeremy Bloom, the team at The Competition, and Broke For Free ("Calm the Fuck Down"). Theme by Alexander Overington.

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0:00.0	Kathy.
0:01.0	Tobin.
0:02.0	There's a deep dark secret of yours that you've never shared on the show.
0:06.0	Uh-huh.
0:07.0	And I want to put you on blast.
0:08.0	Okay.
0:09.0	Back in 2014, for several months, I would say, you were like texting and emailing me about
0:15.5	how you were training for the Olympics.
0:20.7	I was training to qualify for the Olympics, yes.
0:24.6	Ah, okay.
0:25.6	Wait, so what sport was it?
0:27.2	The, um, I find delightfully sinister sport of skeleton.
0:32.6	Oh my god.
0:33.6	Tell the people what skeleton is.
0:36.0	Skeleton is, um, this winter Olympic sport where you start at the top of a Bob-sub-track.
0:42.6	Mm-hmm.
0:43.6	And you go down on a little tiny sled, face first, and you reach speeds of, I think, like,
0:48.8	90, 95 miles per hour.
0:51.9	How do you even train to do that?
0:53.4	You have to be a very fast runner.
0:55.3	Uh-huh.
0:56.3	You start fast.
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