What’s It Like To Make Triple Axel History? with Mirai Nagasu

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Comedy, Education

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This holiday break, we’re re-releasing two of our favorite episodes, with three of our favorite experts, about one of our favorite topics: figure skating. First up is an episode from April 2018 with Olympic figure skater Mirai Nagasu, who was the first American female figure skater to land a triple Axel at the Olympics, earning her a bronze medal in PyeongChang in 2018. Jonathan and Mirai jump right into the technical, artistic, and political aspects of figure skating—and discuss what it was like for Mirai to take her prowess off ice to compete in Dancing with the Stars: Athletes. Find Mirai on Instagram @mirainagasu, on Twitter @mirai_nagasu, and at www.mirainagasu.com. 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 all new 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Bennes, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute
0:05.6	conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.6	This week we're re-releasing one of my favorite episodes of all time, from April of 2018,
0:16.1	where I literally learn so much more about figure skating than I ever knew before, and
0:21.2	I really started to like wrap my head around it with none other than prolific, Olympic
0:27.5	barons, a medalist, stunning, the amazing Marina Gassu, where I ask her what's it like
0:35.6	to do a triple axel?
0:39.6	Are you recording?
0:41.6	Okay.
0:42.6	Are you recording?
0:43.6	Well, Marina, I just...
0:44.6	Did you give me some lessons in attitude because apparently I need more of those.
0:49.5	Wait, listen.
0:50.5	I'm gonna go back to the Olympics.
1:00.5	That was the Niki Yamakuichi shout out.
1:04.4	Wow.
1:05.4	So, with the opposite of chills what I have to have you here today.
1:09.6	Thank you so much for having me.
1:11.6	Well, I want to take you back to the Olympics, and not the part that you think that I'm
1:17.3	gonna ask you about, which is your skate, it is about the moment when you first acknowledged
1:22.4	me on Instagram, and I was on my couch.
1:26.1	And I remember yesterday, I have been DMing you like every day, just support, support,
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