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This episode of the Rocker 
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you by John Wilson Blades. 
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podcast sponsored by John Wilson
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This is a couple of things. 
One, it's our final, final recap

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of the season. 
And two, if you are on video, 

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the one and only Michelle Ellis 
is also on video. 

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She exists. 
This is not just some AI person.

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Hi. 
Hi, Michelle, How are you? 

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We missed you. 
We missed you in Prague. 

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Oh, I missed. 
I missed seeing all of you guys.

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I don't know if I missed 
watching hours and hours and 

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hours of skating, but you know, 
I missed the party. 

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I had a fun time, I really did. 
It was I, I think, I think part 

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of it is really the competition 
itself was very much a 

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celebration for a lot of people.
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atmosphere, you saw that in the 
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It was a lot. 
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really a a good time. 
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fact that for a fourth World 
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having gigantic crowds. 
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This was this was sold out. 
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Yeah, Yeah. 
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I think that I think there was 
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125,000 tickets were sold over 
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seats were filled or something 
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I got it. 
It was on the ISU WhatsApp 

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mailing list. 
They sent something about this. 

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Yeah, 111,922 spectators across 
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It's pretty good. 
Pretty amazing. 

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Pretty amazing. 
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noise and like enthusiasm. 
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It was, it was supportive. 
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It was certainly a bunch of 
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lot of people who were, you 
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know, Europe locals, right? 
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crowd than it was in Milan. 
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the crowd was reacting to 
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interesting. 
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when I was like, this crowd does
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Like you know how you know, and 
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like people do the twizzles and 
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my God, they did it like it, 
like it, it was like it didn't 

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faze them. 
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clapping along with the music. 
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was. 
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general beat, they will try to 
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faster every single time. 
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It was very endearing, yeah. 
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you know, like the part you can 
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Yeah, changes pretty quickly 
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They were trying. 
They were really trying and they

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were the the IT was Ashley 
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And every single time they 
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ovations. 
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that that it was a thing that 
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session they were like, if you 
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don't be shy to stand up. 
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intense on it. 
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a lot of standing ovations. 
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know, I think I do think that 
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arena hosting and the like 
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this for so many season or not 
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competitions. 
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feel like it's resonating. 
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obviously has done this a number
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a lot, there was a lot of it was
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I I thought it was really well 
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So cool. 
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Sad that I don't get to hear 
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feed. 
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those. 
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in the future but I mean, you 
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interviews while the the. 
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Replays are happening and and 
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as possible so that when the 
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back and it's ready, like it's 
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But I agree like it was it. 
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of the the different skater 
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such. 
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it. 
Now they know. 

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Like the first couple of times 
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What am? 
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say? 
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Yeah, like they want to do it, 
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Even even if they didn't know 
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default to thank you to the 
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appreciate the skaters and the 
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crowd. 
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I I maybe it's a little 
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kind of like the 90s music for 
the rhythm dance, but I after 

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all this, I kind of like it. 
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I kind of like it. 
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routine now. 
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Hmm. 
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always contagious, so. 
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Ashley's gotten better and 
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and it it it's really, it's 
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person that they they bring in. 
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of Nikki Voorhies from. 
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they had, it said that this was 
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When she went to World in 2016. 
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long ago. 
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the chart because it starts 
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I think it's, I think it's like 
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bio and like it's completely 
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Very, very fair. 
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was it like to be on the, you 
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And Nikki was like, well, I was 
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silver medal. 
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And Ashley was like, Oh no. 
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That's fun. 
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I I I thought, yeah, I thought a
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really good. 
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So it was, it was great. 
All right, before we get into 

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the World Championships, we have
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guess because on the heels of 
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talk about, that happened 
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As you all know, or maybe not 
know but many people know, the 

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Rocker Skating March Gladness 
costume of the season happened 

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over the past two weeks. 
Thank you to all of you who 

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voted, who put in nominations. 
I thought it was a really 

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phenomenal set of 64 costumes 
that you all got into the 

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brackets. 
I had people emailing me asking 

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me if next time we do this they 
can actually do their own 

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predictions for the brackets, 
which is what you do in March 

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Madness in the US when you do 
college basketball. 

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So stay tuned for that. 
More fun and more, more games to

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come with with with Rocker 
skating. 

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So it came down to the semi 
finals was Cowrie versus Alyssa 

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and Cowrie versus Amber and 
Cowrie. 

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Both times got eliminated on a 
53% to 47% vote. 

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Wow. 
Yeah, your voters were 

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consistent. 
Apparently. 

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Apparently very consistent and 
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checked, I, I, I did it such 
that I don't see the, the, the 

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people and what they voted for, 
but I can see the combinations 

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of people of, of, of the votes. 
And it wasn't like a straight 

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down. 
I'm just, I'm not, I'm not 

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voting for calorie or I am 
voting for calorie. 

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There was a lot of like 
differences, which is very 

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interesting. 
So so that it ended up being a 

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Lisa McKinnon costume battle 
between Alyssa Lou's free skate 

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dress from the Olympics and 
Amber Glenn's short program 

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dress, which she's had all 
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With the best illusion fabric 
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Yeah, I mean, it was very well 
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It ended up the the tally at the
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was 150,000 plus votes that 
yeah, that went across the, you 

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know, 10 days of voting, which 
was very cool. 

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Very. 
Cool seats were filled at 

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Worlds. 
Wow, there are a lot of repeat 

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customers on that one, but 
costume of the season for March 

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Gladness 202526 with a let me 
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with a final total of 66% of the
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Whoa, let's. 
Go like like a prayer short 

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program costume that was the 
winner. 

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Awesome. 
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unbelievable. 
I, I it, it absolutely was one 

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of the best costumes of the 
season and, and the fans 

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obviously liked it and it was it
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It was also one of the three 
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Costume of the of the year, and 
it ended up being Ilya's free 

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skate costume that got the 
costume of the year there so. 

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No offense, but that's crazy. 
I mean no contest. 

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That's Amber's all the way. 
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I still I still like actually I 
I like both of Elias costume. 

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I really liked the original 1. 
I really like the original 1. 

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They're not necklaces, like, and
perfectly matched illusion 

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fabric and just this incredible,
like, mesh and just fishnet 

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material. 
I mean, yeah. 

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I mean, I I, yeah. 
Go Amber. 

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What does Amber win? 
Amber wins the recognition of 

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being the first one. 
She's the People's Choice. 

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The People's Choice Awards. 
Oh my God, is this the People's 

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Choice Awards? 
It might be, it might be, 

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although I I still honorary 
mention to Christina Carrera and

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her perfume free dance dress, 
which I think was stunning and 

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had a little narrative of its 
own at Worlds this year, which I

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guess we'll get into. 
But yeah, she had a beautiful, a

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beautiful response to shedding a
pedal during her program that it

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was the price of beauty to get a
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So. 
OK, Speaking of People's Choice 

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Awards, now that world is over. 
Go to 

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live.ruckersgame.com/games/pots 
and what POTS stands for is 

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performance of the season. 
So we're going to have another 

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bracket style fan voted contest 
I guess of what the performance 

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of the season was for 20/25/26. 
I already have over 2500 

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nominations. 
I know, I literally just put it 

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up like I don't know what like 
10 hours ago. 

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No, that's not true. 20 hours 
ago. 

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I don't know. 
I. 

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Haven't even put mine in yet. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah, I'm sure someone got it. 
That's that's fine. 

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I'm sure it's in there. 
Well, you it, it is important 

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that that people do vote because
if, if or not vote nominate 

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because it is based on the 
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there. 
Can I do more than one? 

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You can do more than one, which 
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Think you don't? 
Mine are. 

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So, so we will start the voting 
later this week. 

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I need to obviously tabulate all
of the nominations, but it's 

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it's fun. 
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performance. 
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of the season, not program of 
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you all to do and think about is
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skated, the significance of it, 
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everything, right? 
Like the things that really made

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us jump out of our seats and you
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skaters and their performances. 
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be senior, it could be domestic,
international, be any 

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competition that has to be in 
the 202526 season. 

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So again, go to 
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slash pots, pots. 
It is the pots. 

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It'll be fun. 
ISU awards. 

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It was interesting. 
It was my first gap. 

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It was it was my first banquet. 
Yeah, you went. 

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I know they, they've invited me 
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I'm like, and they literally 
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worlds and I'm like, I have 
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Actually, I can't change it. 
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a good time. 
They, they really, they, they do

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a good job of celebrating the 
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have a good time. 
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will be very frank that the 
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a couple of years ago, I was 
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this weird gimmicky thing? 
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for a couple of seasons, maybe 
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It feels like an institution 
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They've changed the categories, 
they've changed the ways that 

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they've done, you know, all of 
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So it, it, it feels, it feels 
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the work that the skaters and 
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coaches and the costume 
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have, have done. 
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choice category where like. 
Only the skaters. 

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Wolf boat. 
Yeah, that'd be interesting. 

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I like that. 
Maybe I'll do that. 

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Yeah, it's fun. 
All right, let's talk about 

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worlds. 
You know, you and I were going 

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on and on and on about how post 
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strange things happens like post
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things are going to be, you 
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unexpected or a lot unexpected. 
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you know, we didn't have that 
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happened was like in the men's 
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Yeah. 
Otherwise it was not not that 

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crazy of a. 
It was not that crazy, but it 

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did come down to the third to 
last program for us to have a, 

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what adjective should I say, a 
doozy of a call to from the 

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technical panel. 
That was, yeah, that was, I 

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mean, wow, like. 
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there being like, we are three 
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this happens. 
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was mostly defined by the lack 
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until that moment. 
And then it was like, this is 

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what you're coming after. 
Like not one queue for Nina 

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Pinzrone anywhere but Lyla and 
Lewis lift they've been doing 

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all season Illegal. 
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Let's start there. 
Let's start with the ice dance 

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because we we can't not talk 
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was talking about at the very 
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Well, so this season I feel like
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like judging, calling wise in by
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have skaters that have been 
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And then we'll show up at an 
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And it's happened to a lot of 
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I mean, people at the top and 
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And then this is one thing that 
is Lila and Louis have this 

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stationary lift, rotational lift
combo with opening their 

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freelance where Louis lifts Lila
above his head, but he his arms 

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are out to the side. 
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straighten them like she's up, 
but they're like they're like 

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wide. 
So he's got a bend in his elbow.

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It's not straight arms. 
So it's legal and all season, no

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problem, no problem, no problem.
They do it at worlds. 

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It's called an illegal element. 
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that position. 
So they get a 2 point deduction 

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and a loss of level on that lift
and I think it cost them four 

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points. 
Mark said they were coming in at

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1:27 when they left the ice. 
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that happened. 
It wasn't just that, it was the,

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so the, the lift, the lift level
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point to like maybe it's .75 or 
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think it came in at 15 and we 
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and and then there was a 2 point
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When I was looking at the 
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high 120 sevens and so, so the 
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exactly. 
They they if had that original 

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set of numbers stood, it would 
have been second. 

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But the thing was, and I've I 
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I did not see the lift real 
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Lewis's leg on the first set of 
twizzles did not go high enough 

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as he was swinging up and down 
on the straight leg. 

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And you have to be, in order to 
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to have your leg has to be at a 
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And I think it's it, it, it's 
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degrees. 
And, and I knew they were going 

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to review that and they did. 
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a he also did a a a switcheroo 
of edges on one of his twizzles.

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Maybe it's it was the the the 
the right for it outside? 

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Yeah. 
And, and we were talking about 

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how Lila's twizzles have been 
the liability. 

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Hers was fine. 
Hers was the best that she's 

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done in in in a long time. 
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year. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah it. 

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Was a little bit like very much 
like I'm going to get through 

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this, but. 
She did it. 

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But she got through it, yeah. 
She got through it, but Lewis's 

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twizzles went down to levels and
that was another point and 1/2. 

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So all said that was the four 
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that they lost on, on those two 
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Afterwards, Lewis Lila was like,
Oh yes, I, we are, we, we 

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talked, we talked to the, the, 
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the arms. 
And Lewis literally right right 

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after said, that's impossible. 
I can't, I can't straighten my 

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arms. 
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I watched the old, the old 
versions of it in the other 

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competitions versus the new 
version of it. 

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And there was a point in this 
one where it looked like right 

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when he was getting her up, he 
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And like, instead of it lifting 
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you know, and, and it locked, it
locked for a split second. 

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And I think that's what they 
called. 

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And, and what was also part of 
this whole thing that you 

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shouldn't see on on the screen, 
right, was that the, the levels 

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were going up and down and up 
and down because the, the three 

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people on the technical panel 
didn't agree. 

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And so they had to basically it 
was a, it was a vote of two to 

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one right, of whether or not to 
call these things. 

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And originally that stationary 
lift was called a level 1 and 

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then it went back up to a Level 
3. 

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So the, the votes were what they
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And that's, that's, that's how 
it all ended up. 

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And and then the two point for 
for the for the illegal element 

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of the straight arms. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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And as a result, they finished 
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freelance and 4th overall. 
And we're very unhappy about it.

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I mean, the thing with the arm, 
like on one hand, yes, they've 

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been taking that risk all season
and they were always at the 

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mercy of the panel to say his 
arms, not his arms, not bent 

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illegal. 
But I, I, I'm didn't bring my 

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computer with me. 
I was in LA this weekend. 

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So I chose to watch this live on
a giant big screen TV and not 

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have my phone. 
So I was just watching it and I 

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didn't notice that when it 
happened. 

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And then I noticed Lila posted a
video to her story of like an 

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Instagram her of a fan video of 
her that left from the other 

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side of the rink. 
And then so I watched it very 

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closely, like having known this 
happened, and it didn't look 

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like he really straightened it 
to me. 

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I mean, maybe in the angle the 
judges had, it looked like he 

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locked it. 
But it he's got his leave on, 

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you know, it's like. 
I know, I know, I think. 

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You need to be sure before you. 
I don't know. 

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I know, I know. 
It's it, like you said, they 

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happened. 
It's it's, it's right on the 

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edge. 
They're playing with fire, 

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right, Like, and and it's, it's 
not like they haven't been told 

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that this there's a risk in 
doing that lift. 

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So you know, it. 
I, I, I just, it's one of those 

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things where it just feels 
disingenuous for the the nickel 

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ending and diming to happen 
right at the one of the biggest 

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competitions of the season. 
And they're like punishing 

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innovation, you know, like the 
rules are what they are so 

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people can push the boundaries 
and do unique things. 

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And it's like, not to bring up 
gymnastics again, but we had 

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something like this happen in 
Paris with Sabrina Voina. 

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I don't know how to say her last
name. 

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I don't remember how to say it. 
I did at the time we were 

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producing it, putting on the on 
TV. 

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But she had, you're not allowed 
to put your foot on the floor 

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exercise outside of the line. 
And she had a piece of 

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choreography where she put her 
toe in the corner and swung her 

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heel around the outside. 
Didn't touch, but someone saw it

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and called it as a step out of 
bounds, but it wasn't. 

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And then she didn't properly 
appeal it. 

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And then because it wasn't 
properly appealed, she kept that

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deduction. 
And then she never got a medal. 

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And it's like she's being 
creative artistically and you're

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being excessively punitive 
because of something you didn't 

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see correctly. 
You know, it's just sort of like

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where, how, how much are we 
going to enforce these little 

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boundaries? 
Like how strict are we going to 

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be? 
There were some angles where you

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can you thought you you could 
see her foots, like actually 

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touch the floor outside. 
I well, when you had the, the, 

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the, the NBC camera, like it was
right behind her when we did it,

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we had the view of it like she 
did not touch outside. 

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It's like she didn't. 
It may be the shadow of her foot

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did, but her foot didn't. 
Yeah, I. 

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Anyway, it's like. 
Yeah. 

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That was a big it's like we 
ended with the scandal at the 

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end and then the British Skating
Federation filed like a protest 

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and the ISU was immediately like
lol, no. 

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So yeah, anyway. 
That didn't happen. 

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So yeah, yeah. 
So that's what we ended up with.

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I I was so busy trying to figure
out what happened that I didn't 

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even watch the last two. 
And I still haven't yet, because

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I am. 
So. 

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I am so skating skating out that
I have not even tried. 

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I did what I heard and I I'd be 
interested to hear what what 

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your thoughts were. 
What I heard was that Wuthering 

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Heights was good, but not great 
like there was, there was, it 

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felt like a program that that 
needed time because obviously 

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they just brought it back to two
to three weeks ago and, and they

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it needed more time and, and 
that Forney Beaudry and 

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Cicerone's free dance was much 
better than it was at the 

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Olympics. 
Oh yeah, so Piper and Paul bring

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back Wuthering Heights. 
I mean, I I love seeing it 

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again. 
And there's some cool highlight 

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mode, especially like the the 
double cantilever they do is so 

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cool, but it really needed more 
time in the oven. 

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Like I think these programs are 
hard. 

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And when you haven't had the 
reps with it, it just you could 

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kind of see it once they went 
out to perform it that. 

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Yeah. 
And I honestly, I feel like they

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got kind of lucky with Lila and 
Louis having the issues that 

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they did because they left some 
points on the table. 

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00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:08,400
I think Piper and Paul did it in
just, you know, just taking that

448
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,200
that kind of a risk. 
But I mean, it worked. 

449
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,720
It was great to see the program 
again. 

450
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,520
I very much enjoyed it. 
Yeah, forget them to get there, 

451
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,200
I think. 
Was it their fifth world medal? 

452
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,760
It was great. 
Laurence and Guillaume were 

453
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,200
unbelievable. 
I mean, I've talked to you a lot

454
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,960
about how I feel like in Milan, 
when I was watching, they didn't

455
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,560
compete as well as they 
practiced. 

456
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,120
I really felt like they were 
competing stronger here. 

457
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,440
I really felt like Yelm 
especially was really pushing it

458
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,080
to the edge. 
I mean, it's like watching it. 

459
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:46,240
Unbelievable how like how 
technically strong they are and 

460
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,560
the like the depth of the edges 
they can hit and the way they 

461
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,280
can hold and the, the, the 
length of time they hold them 

462
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,120
and just the, the cleanliness. 
It was, it was like 

463
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:01,200
overwhelmingly great. 
It was so sensational. 

464
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,760
I mean, that's like, that's like
how they were practicing when I 

465
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:06,960
was, you know, watching them in 
Milan. 

466
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,080
And it was just kind of like no 
one's in the same building as 

467
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:10,560
this. 
No one's no one's competing with

468
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:11,920
this. 
And then because when they 

469
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,400
competed it, they didn't compete
it the way they were practicing 

470
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:15,720
it. 
It's like sort of like made you 

471
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,640
doubt, you know, but this was 
just like out of this world. 

472
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,360
It was it was awesome. 
And, you know, before this 

473
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,240
competition, they had a lot of 
questions about will they 

474
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:27,560
continue? 
What's their plan? 

475
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,600
And they were very like, oh, we 
have to talk about it. 

476
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,200
We don't know. 
I'm going to be very upset if 

477
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,400
they don't do another season at 
least. 

478
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,520
Like it's it's, it's 
unbelievable to watch. 

479
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,680
I mean, no one is doing it at 
that level. 

480
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,800
It's just it's yeah, it's 
incredible. 

481
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,000
And I also thought the rhythm 
dance was was great, too. 

482
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,480
That was. 
That's at least the one that I, 

483
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,560
I watched and it was, it really 
was a lot better than what they 

484
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,680
did at the Olympics. 
I I both of the programs at the 

485
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,080
Olympics were not anywhere near 
as good as the one that they did

486
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,040
here. 
Well, I woke up and I saw 92 

487
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,840
because I, I did not wake up 
early enough to see it. 

488
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,840
I woke up and I saw 92 and I was
like, Oh my God, come on. 

489
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,160
And then I watched it. 
I was like 92 wasn't enough. 

490
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,600
They could have gotten more. 
Oh God, it was so good. 

491
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:21,160
I, I feel like I because they're
so new and they haven't competed

492
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,160
that consistently throughout the
season. 

493
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,440
I don't like have it in my brain
that they're as good as they 

494
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,200
are. 
And then every time I see them, 

495
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,080
I'm just like, Oh my God, like, 
whoa. 

496
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,280
So. 
Yeah, yeah. 

497
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,720
And, and Piper and Paul's 
supermodel was not as strong as 

498
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,160
it was at the Olympics either. 
So I was a little bit a little 

499
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,560
bit messy in in some spots. 
I wouldn't say it is was as good

500
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,360
as it was in the individual 
event at the. 

501
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,840
End of the individual event, 
Yeah, yeah, the team, The team 

502
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,160
event was. 
Yeah, as far as the rest of the 

503
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,200
season has gone for them, I 
thought it was a pretty strong 

504
00:31:58,120 --> 00:31:59,160
effort. 
Yeah, yeah. 

505
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,360
Which is also crazy because in 
the at the Olympics, in the 

506
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:08,920
individual event, his costume 
came off right at the end and 

507
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,640
she caught it, which was like, 
like the, the, the number of 

508
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,720
things that had to have happened
for that to happen. 

509
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,800
Incredible reflexes. 
Yes, absolutely. 

510
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:27,160
Well, Emily Azingis and Vadim 
Kolesnik get the bronze in their

511
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,800
debut at. 
Worlds unbelievable. 

512
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,480
I mean, to be fair, it's not 
like they haven't been. 

513
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,120
I mean, they haven't been to the
world just because US Figure 

514
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,160
Skating's dance field is so 
deep. 

515
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,360
But still, that's like crazy. 
And I also would like to point 

516
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:50,200
out that we both predicted it. 
So it was weird because when 

517
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,800
after the rhythm dance, when 
they were in fourth, I was like,

518
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,560
oh, well, if Lila messes up her 
twizzles again, they're going to

519
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,520
get the bronze medal. 
And then she didn't, and they 

520
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,960
still did. 
So that. 

521
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:07,840
I mean, no, a lot nobody in that
arena understood the score for 

522
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,400
Lila and Lewis for very real 
reasons. 

523
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:18,440
And and thus I was going through
every single, going down every 

524
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,320
single rabbit hole I could 
possibly go into and figuring 

525
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,400
out what was going on before I 
before they even was able to get

526
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,880
us any kind of explanation. 
Yeah, you were texting me lots 

527
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,360
of excerpts for the rules, and I
was trying to look stuff up on 

528
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,360
my phone and I was like, you 
know what, He's got it. 

529
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:39,240
I'm just gonna watch. 
I like there was one point when 

530
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,600
I was texting with Michelle and 
I was like this is my final 

531
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,400
thesis and I am leaving. 
Yeah, like I. 

532
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,480
Cannot do any more of this. 
Well, the thing that I didn't 

533
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,760
realize is that for so for an 
extended lift, you get that 

534
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,120
carrot that shows up on the 
protocol for an illegal element.

535
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:58,920
There's nothing. 
You just get a legal element at 

536
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,760
the bottom. 
And I thought for sure there 

537
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,800
would be something like at least
an asterisk, something the way 

538
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:08,199
they do in jumps like to show 
like what you know, has the but 

539
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,760
nothing, nothing. 
And so then I was like, was it 

540
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:12,440
something else they did that got
caught? 

541
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,920
But. 
Yeah, that was that was the 

542
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,760
confusion in the moment of of 
was it like, was it something 

543
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,719
that was choreographical that 
they did that was that was 

544
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,600
illegal because that that was 
what happened with Zingis 

545
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,679
Kolesnik at the Grand Prix 
Final. 

546
00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:29,159
I was. 
Thinking of them with her Axel. 

547
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,400
With her with her assisted Axel.
Yeah. 

548
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,040
And they were like, no, you 
can't do that. 

549
00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,440
And so they had, they ended up 
having to change it. 

550
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:46,199
So, yeah, so so they are only 
the third ice dance team ever to

551
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:48,440
meddle in their very first 
worlds. 

552
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,120
Wow, Fournier, Boudre and 
Cicerone ends up or Fournier, 

553
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:58,440
Boudre and Cicerone end up 
becoming the fourth wow to to to

554
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,240
meddle in their first World 
Championships. 

555
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:02,640
Who are the 1st 2? 
I feel like I should know and I 

556
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,960
don't the. 
Ships was one of them. 

557
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,040
The ships was one of. 
Them. 

558
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,640
Of course he is, yes. 
And then I don't know the other 

559
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,000
one. 
No idea. 

560
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:13,600
I did. 
I did. 

561
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:20,440
I was on the same flight as 
Amelia and Vadim on the way to 

562
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,920
Amsterdam, and they were like, 
they were like, yeah, we're 

563
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,720
tired. 
Yeah, I mean they did 4 

564
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:30,320
continents too. 
They did national 4 continents 

565
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,560
that they were there for the 
whole Olympics and and then 

566
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,040
worlds. 
I mean, yeah. 

567
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,760
It's been, it's been, it has 
been a long season for them. 

568
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,040
And I mean, what a what a 
breakout season. 

569
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,040
And and it would be interesting 
to see what that what the next 

570
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,800
four years looks like for them. 
Like is this one of those where 

571
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:55,440
they get the bronze medal this 
year and it's sustained or that 

572
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,760
something else happened? 
Who knows? 

573
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,760
Ice dance has been weird. 
Yeah, I hope that Vadim can stay

574
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,600
healthy because they really 
attributed their improved like 

575
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,120
performances this season to the 
number of increased run throughs

576
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:12,320
they were able to do because he 
had surgery on his hips. 

577
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,160
Was it the hips he had? 
He had two different procedures.

578
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,320
I think he had a hip issue and 
then he had a hernia issue. 

579
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,680
But he had those like treated 
medically at the end of last 

580
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,520
season and that like allowed him
to start training more run 

581
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,480
throughs and and more 
consistency. 

582
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,600
And I think that I mean, it's 
obviously really translated into

583
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,880
their competitive performances. 
But I hope that he is able to 

584
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,640
maintain that in a healthy way 
to continue their trajectory. 

585
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,960
Yeah, exactly. 
Some of the big highlights, 

586
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,560
Smart and Deeks, like they just,
they just keep doing that Dune 

587
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,680
free dance and they, yeah, they 
really left it all out there. 

588
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:54,920
I, I, you know, I think the, the
only thing was like their, their

589
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,520
step sequence was a level 2 and 
a level 1, but like everything 

590
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,800
else was so well done. 
And no exclamation point. 

591
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,920
Second moment, no exclamation 
point on the character's. 

592
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,760
No, no exclamation points given.
So thank you to the panel for 

593
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,800
that. 
I. 

594
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,840
I maybe in the minority they 
were. 

595
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,200
Actually very actually sorry. 
They were actually very close to

596
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,600
1 exclamation point. 
I remember seeing it so. 

597
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,280
But they didn't give it to them.
They didn't. 

598
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,240
Give it to them. 
No, it was. 

599
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,360
It was Becker, Becker, 
Hernandez's. 

600
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,800
I would not mind, I would not 
complain. 

601
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,680
I wouldn't have anything 
negative to say about June 3. 

602
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:44,160
I would be so interested if 
Spartan Deke decide to continue 

603
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,080
competitively skating. 
Oh, I think they are. 

604
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,520
You think they are OK? 
Yeah, Yeah, I think so. 

605
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,240
I have no idea. 
Like I, I, you, just, you never,

606
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,840
you never know with all these 
teams. 

607
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,480
Right, Olivia on her podcast 
makes it sound like they are 

608
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,920
definitely planning their free 
dance for next season. 

609
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,240
So that's like they're at least,
I assume least doing another 

610
00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,400
year. 
Interesting. 

611
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:11,240
Don't leave us. 
I know they did say on on the on

612
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:16,120
my on the rewatch of June 2 that
June 3 doesn't come out until 

613
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:20,000
December 2026, so it's it 
wouldn't be next year that they 

614
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,720
do June 3. 
Well, what if the music comes 

615
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:26,760
out earlier? 
I mean, there's new, there's 

616
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,760
new, there's some new music. 
I saw Olivia posting about it. 

617
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,000
I mean, maybe they can get an 
advance copy. 

618
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:38,360
I know it's like Zendaya. 
Can you please give us an 

619
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,240
advance copy? 
I mean, Zendaya, she, she hooks 

620
00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:44,840
people up. 
She, she got Robert Pattinson a 

621
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:49,000
role in the new Dune movie and 
she hung out with Alyssa at 

622
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,360
Paris Fashion Week. 
So, you know, you never know. 

623
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,640
I would I would be very 
interested in what June 3 would 

624
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:01,800
look like because if you by the 
way, folks listening, if you 

625
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:07,480
have not watched the Olivia 
Smart and Tim D commentate on 

626
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:12,000
their own June 1 and June 2, you
should go and do that. 

627
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:17,720
It is on my YouTube channel at 
Rocker skating because you 

628
00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:22,400
really start start to understand
the decisions that they made 

629
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,800
from Part 1 to Part 2. 
The the connections of the 

630
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:31,160
different elements. 
Like the for example, the lifts 

631
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:36,200
at the beginning in Dune in Part
2 is a derivative and a much 

632
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,960
more difficult derivative of 
something they did in Dune Part 

633
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,840
1. 
The curve lifts, curve lift 

634
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,560
combo in Dune Part 2 as another 
derivative of what they did in 

635
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,040
Part 1, but also a much harder 
version of it. 

636
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,400
So there was some things that 
they they they talked about in 

637
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,920
in the two programs that really 
like made me watch this with a 

638
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,920
very different understanding of 
what they did. 

639
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,480
And trust me, I will do more of 
these re watches because they 

640
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:10,240
have been so illuminating as to 
like what we're watching. 

641
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:14,160
That that I, I, yeah, I think 
it's, I think it's very cool. 

642
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:21,560
But yes. 
Dune Dune Part 2 gets a gets a 

643
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,720
personal best for them. 
And A and a small medal. 

644
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,000
And a small medal. 
Next year they'll get the the 

645
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,160
gold small medal in the world's 
free dance. 

646
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,520
Hopefully they get like a real 
world's medal at some point, 

647
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:34,920
but. 
I know, I know. 

648
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,800
What else? 
What else for from from this? 

649
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,000
There were so many good 
programs. 

650
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,160
Yeah, great skate from Carrera 
Panamarenko. 

651
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,360
Really, really good. 
Yeah, just. 

652
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,840
Yeah, they tell that story so 
well. 

653
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,880
Yeah, I, I don't know what kind 
of dark, twisted nightmare 

654
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,320
they're going to find to skate 
to next year, but I I love it. 

655
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,640
I want more of it from them. 
Yeah, yeah. 

656
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:04,520
Anthony. 
Program idea. 

657
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:10,400
Anthony was telling me it at the
banquet that they already have 

658
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,120
free dance like things. 
Wow. 

659
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:21,680
Boiling in, bubbling in in there
in their decision making and 

660
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,520
Anthony was like one of those 
ideas is something that I have 

661
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:28,240
been wanting to do for years. 
So I'm, I'm excited to see if 

662
00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:30,440
like that, that ends up being 
the thing that they do next 

663
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,440
season. 
I'm happy for them, but I also 

664
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,760
think that's interesting that he
didn't propose it in the Olympic

665
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,200
season. 
Well, they he probably did, 

666
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,800
right? 
And yeah, who knows? 

667
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,200
Who knows? 
I was driving today and I was 

668
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:53,240
listening to shuffle and like 
Apple Music and a Placebo song 

669
00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,920
came on and I was like Cruel 
Intentions has the best 

670
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,280
soundtrack. 
Someone should do a Cruel 

671
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:01,000
Intentions free dance. 
Lila and Lewis. 

672
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,640
Lila and Lewis can do it. 
They can do the 90s, clothes, 

673
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,680
the music. 
Like if there's anybody who does

674
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:12,640
a Cruel Intentions free dance. 
Yeah, yeah. 

675
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,960
Yeah, some some really some 
other really good, good skates. 

676
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,720
Davis and smoking continues to 
impress me with the way that 

677
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:28,560
they've improved that free dance
is still it's such a beautiful 

678
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:35,040
piece of work that they've done 
and I appreciate it because it's

679
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,720
the composition of it is 
unusual. 

680
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:43,120
The the way that the elements 
are strung together is different

681
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,800
than a lot of the other programs
and they really do try to create

682
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,800
something that's theirs and 
that's different and, and I love

683
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,040
the improvements that they've 
made I. 

684
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,440
Don't I? 
Don't even remember the rest of 

685
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,720
these. 
Lajoie Laga had a very nice 

686
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:05,000
performance of their White Crow 
Free Dance and we're once again 

687
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,720
dumped. 
And I'm wondering what the 

688
00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:12,480
message is, you know, because 
last year they also similarly 

689
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,200
skated relatively well and then 
got a pretty underwhelming free 

690
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,880
dance score. 
And I wonder, I wonder what, you

691
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,000
know, I think, I definitely 
think there's some moments in 

692
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,400
their programs where I think 
they could have a little more 

693
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:32,560
finish or Polish. 
But I mean, on the whole, I 

694
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,280
think that they are very 
consistent performers and they 

695
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:39,560
just, it's a beautiful program. 
And, you know, I'm kind of 

696
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,000
mystified by the way they've 
been received. 

697
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:46,040
And yeah, I don't know what you 
do next after that. 

698
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:52,240
I don't know what it is, but I 
am really sick of hearing white 

699
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:57,240
crow. 
And it it like, it hasn't really

700
00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:02,400
been used that much, but I the 
repetitiveness of white white 

701
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:07,960
crow is it, it gets to my brain 
and I, I've turned it off. 

702
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,400
Like, I don't know, it's it 
just, it just it. 

703
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,640
Yeah. 
When, when, when Misha Koyeda 

704
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,600
did it, it was like, Oh my God, 
this is beautiful. 

705
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,920
It's such a like a haunting 
piece of music or whatever. 

706
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,960
It's, it's, it's, it's a 
beautiful piece of music. 

707
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,640
And then and then a whole bunch 
of people started doing it over 

708
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,920
the past few seasons. 
And then it's like, yeah, I 

709
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,520
can't listen to this anymore. 
I felt like when Lajwala did 

710
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,160
Lajwala did it the first time, 
it was really still really 

711
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,400
special. 
And I definitely felt this 

712
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,200
season it doesn't feel as 
special. 

713
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,760
Like their interpretation in 
their performance is beautiful 

714
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,200
but it doesn't have the like 
emotional impact when I see it 

715
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,120
that it did the first season. 
They did it like 3 years ago. 

716
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:50,240
But still I'm not happy with 
their score. 

717
00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:52,880
Yeah, Yeah. 
I don't know. 

718
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,840
I don't know what the the deal 
is with them. 

719
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,280
Yeah, the other one I wanted to 
talk about was actually Reid and

720
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,560
Amber Levichus. 
I don't know if you noticed, and

721
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,080
I barely noticed, but I was, I 
kept being like disoriented 

722
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:11,480
during that freelance. 
But apparently right at the 

723
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:17,240
start, they came out of the a 
lift in the wrong direction and 

724
00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:22,080
they skated the program 
completely 180°, turned around 

725
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,280
and then had to talk to each 
other during the program to 

726
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:32,480
figure out when they go back to 
the right direction so that they

727
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,880
end it on the end in the right 
direction. 

728
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:41,560
Because that last piece of the, 
the program, the, the character 

729
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:47,040
step starts with them grabbing 
the crowd and then they go to 

730
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,400
the judges and, and, and finish 
that character step. 

731
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,320
And so it would have been really
weird for them to be at the 

732
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,000
judge's side. 
And like, like the crowd isn't 

733
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,080
over there. 
Like there's like a whole 

734
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,720
section behind the judges where 
you, there's nobody sitting 

735
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:05,160
there. 
So it doesn't make any sense. 

736
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:10,360
And and so so that was, you 
know, talk about ice dance 

737
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,360
communications. 
Yeah, in in mid program. 

738
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,760
That was something that they 
they, they, they were doing. 

739
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,640
It was very interesting. 
But that it was. 

740
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,480
I talked to Allison afterwards. 
She was like, yeah, I don't even

741
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,280
know what happened, but we had 
to figure it out in. 

742
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,560
The program, well, I mean that, 
yeah, that's usually when you 

743
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,760
start making mistakes is when 
you have to talk to your partner

744
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,040
and they handled it really well.
They they had a really good 

745
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,600
skate, I mean. 
Yeah, I think, I think it helped

746
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,680
that they decided they weren't 
going to turn the program around

747
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,440
until the end until they did all
their stuff because they're the 

748
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,880
where I noticed it was on their 
twizzles. 

749
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,840
Because I've always seen the 
program with the twizzles going 

750
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,560
to the left side of the judges 
and the the twizzles were going 

751
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,440
to the right side of the judges.
And I was like, like, yeah, 

752
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,520
there's something weird going on
here. 

753
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,080
I don't know what it. 
Is there's something weird and 

754
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:10,160
and so it it wasn't until they 
went back in the middle and they

755
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:14,440
did the the choreographic spin 
like that, that little like that

756
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:20,480
little like back crossover spin 
move that they do with each 

757
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,520
other. 
It's a synchro pinwheel. 

758
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:23,400
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
It's. 

759
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:24,520
How you start it? 
Yeah. 

760
00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:27,200
Yeah, they'd start. 
Anybody else to join right? 

761
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,440
Yeah, it it that was when I 
think they made the they they. 

762
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,120
Made the switch, that was a good
time. 

763
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,200
Right. 
Exactly because you're, you're 

764
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,400
in the middle, right? 
And all you have to do is move 

765
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,880
to the the the the correct 
direction as it goes to the 

766
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,640
wrong direction. 
Yeah. 

767
00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:48,840
What an event. 
And fortunately, France has 

768
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,600
three spots for next year, so 
yeah. 

769
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,680
I know. 
Yeah, this should have happened 

770
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,840
last season. 
Mm hmm say that much. 

771
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:03,680
So France gets 3 spots, Canada 
gets 3 spots and the US gets 3 

772
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:09,600
spots and then the two spots go 
to Great Britain, Spain, 

773
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:17,800
Lithuania, Georgia and Czech 
Republic, Czechia, Czechia. 

774
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,680
I don't know why I said Czech 
Republic considering I heard 

775
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,400
Czechia all all week long and 
then that's that's what I should

776
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,240
be calling it. 
Wait. 

777
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,560
What's the total for for two 
because they. 

778
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:33,440
Have 28, it's 11 plus, right? 
11 + 16. 

779
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:39,600
Yeah, they got 2027. 
No, they got 29. 

780
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:46,560
No 2027 because you you Max out 
at 16 placement points if you 

781
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,440
qualify for the for the. 
Free, right? 

782
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:50,760
You're right. 
Yeah, OK, good. 

783
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,840
Phew. 
I know I was incredibly sad 

784
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,720
about Turkula Versoice 
withdrawing. 

785
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,600
That was. 
Just like awful. 

786
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,080
And now Finland only has one 
spot for Worlds next year. 

787
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,440
For their for home worlds, yeah.
Yeah. 

788
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,680
I mean, it's a question of like 
Matthias Versoice has been 

789
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,920
falling apart, like his body has
not cooperated with him. 

790
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,520
Yeah, all season. 
I mean the nerve damage thing 

791
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:17,640
and now or the nerve, whatever 
thing that he was dealing with 

792
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:18,280
in. 
Nerve injury. 

793
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:25,600
And, and now his back is like a 
apparently a, an old injury that

794
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:30,040
has flared up. 
And he was skating with it and 

795
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,240
the rhythm dance they were, they
had, they were make, they were 

796
00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:34,280
trying to make the decision of 
whether or not they were going 

797
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,280
to skate and, and they ended up 
doing it. 

798
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:41,640
But yeah, it's it's tough to 
watch because they're such a 

799
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,160
good team. 
Yeah, yeah. 

800
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:46,680
So yeah, they're down to one 
spot. 

801
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:50,520
Aye. 
All right. 

802
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:56,280
Well, that was part one of two 
of the World Championships recap

803
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,480
for Michelle Ellis. 
This is Jackie Wong, chief skate

804
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:03,320
nerd of rockerskating.com. 
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805
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:08,000
Wilson Blades for sponsorship 
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806
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,040
and producing us. 
We will talk to you again with 

807
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,000
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