284: Morgan Hurd - a podcast by gymcastic@gmail.com
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INTERVIEW
This week, we have a very special chat with new world all-around champion, expert zombie-worm escaper, official badass woman, and favorite gymnast of young-adult authors the world over, MORGAN HURD. We discuss:
- Whether we're still allowed to call her Morgiboo
- Which gymnasts she fangirls out over
- If she's totally sick of people talking about her glasses yet
- All the behind-the-scenes scoop from worlds
- What she thinks about camp secrecy and possible SPIES
- What she thought about the lighting in the arena and training gym
- What happened when Ragan got injured before the AA final
- Who cried the most when she won
- Current training and TOP-SECRET upgrades
- Ideas for getting "the Hurd" in the code of points (we have a lot)
- Upcoming competition plans
- HARRY POTTER
- Which house Morgan would be in
- Morgan and Spencer throw down about Hagrid's teaching abilities
- Statues of Dobby and fuzzy sock tributes
- Which song from Hamilton would make the best floor music
- Nastia's obsession with her
- Getting confused for a child literally all the time
- How she decided on Florida
- What she thinks about NBC's "China would really love to have her" comments
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