Hall of Shame: Gymnastics Commentary Edition
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
PORTLAND LIVE SHOW
HALL OF SHAME
- Update about Monica Phelps and her banned, pedophile husband
- Sexually inappropriate comments about minors: Nope.
- Sexually inappropriate comments about adults: Double nope.
- Infantilizing adults and calling them little girls: Triple nope.
- Weight Shaming: The Monica Phelps Chapter
- Being weirdly obsessed with adoption: The Al Trautwig Chapter
- Tragic moments in college commentary
- Tragic moments in putting on accents
GYMCASTIC'S OFFICIAL BROADCAST DOs and DON'Ts
- 18 Dos and (mostly) Don'ts for gymnastics broadcasts concerning comparing gymnasts to dented cars, being the smile police, "Bela's girls," and talking about a gymnast's "personality."
BANNED WORDS AND PHRASES
- From "supple" to "weight" to "international look" to "ancient" to "4 inches wide," we have some words and phrases that are hereby banned from gymnastics commentary.
- The most important message for any commentator to reiterate before they begin broadcasts re smashing the patriarchy for the witches they couldn't burn.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Remember, this show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:04.4 | This month, Tumble Track is having a sale. |
| 0:07.0 | TumbleTrak's home holiday sale is on. |
| 0:10.0 | Everything and anything you can think of that you need to train happily and healthy and have fun at home is on sale. |
| 0:16.7 | The training equipment, the home equipment or fitness stuff, bars, mats, beams, air floors, |
| 0:22.0 | those little hotspot things, like the little tiny air floor circles you can jump around on, |
| 0:26.5 | you can get all that and have it at home. And there's a sale. Visit TumbleTrac at T-U-M-B-L-T-R-A-K, |
| 0:33.0 | tumbletrack.com, train smart. Today, our terrible commentator, Hall of Shame, Troutwig, Monica Phelps, that SEC guy, Dick |
| 0:44.6 | and Berg are rules for commentating, how to do it correctly. |
| 0:49.2 | It's gymnastics commentators, the good, the bad, and the ugly, mostly ugly, a commission. And welcome to the number one gymnastics podcast in the galaxy. I'm Jessica and I'm hearing with Spencer from the balance beam situation. And there will be profanity in this episode. So I'd like to reiterate. I've had a lot of coffee. |
| 1:11.7 | You know, |
| 1:11.9 | I'm very passionate about smashing the patriarchy, |
| 1:14.4 | so I'm going to talk about that a lot. |
| 1:17.0 | And, yeah. |
| 1:18.4 | This is one of our all-time most popular episodes. |
| 1:21.7 | It was originally recorded in 2020. |
| 1:24.8 | Stay tuned for the very end of the episode, |
| 1:26.8 | where I will give you updates on two people that we, one, casually mentioned and make a joke about and one that we talk about for a long time in this episode. You don't want to miss those. |
| 1:35.9 | So, Spencer, tell us a little bit about this commission. |
| 1:40.3 | This episode was commissioned by Anna Marie, who asked for an episode all about gymnastic commentators, |
| 1:46.5 | the good, the bad, and the ugly. |
| 1:48.7 | And like Jessica mentioned, we mostly fought over Ollie and Kelly Johnson the whole time. |
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