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(From an American) You do sound very different! Just couldn't keep you straight haha. I don't think it will be an issue after a few months of the podcast. I think maybe in the beginning if you can reference each other by name, like 'I agree Evie' or "Thanks for that point Lae' it will help listeners identify the voice to the name. Also, love love love that you included a transcript!! It's super helpful for people who are hard of hearing and I haven't seen it as often as you would think among podcasts.

Erin, I don't have a source but I remember this too. Which is why I got teary when he met Brian after PC Seimei and you can hear Brian say 'You're a brave man'.

This, it was just a few anons on curious cat stirring things up. It’s not news to fans or a big deal, etc.

I think it’s been more than 30 days lol

His SLB ex?!

I’m just thinking back to his shows in summer 2015, where he introduced Seimei. Hope he shows us something new at Faoi! Can you imagine the fans reaction if he does 😅

He can get a trim, so long as he keeps it at about this length 😂 but I think he might be keeping it, he has for the past 3 months so we’ll see!

oh ok haha. We shall see what the reality is soon enough!

This is just a rumor at this moment, right?

Oh goodness, I live in the Toronto time zone () so I'm going to sleep now. Hope that when I wake up we'll have news! Either way, this and figure skating twitter will be absolutely wild. Good luck to Zhenya, and us all!

Sorry to be whiny/b*tchy but can we move on? He's just a very polite and respectful young man. Soooo where do we think he is now? Toronto? Anyone know the Canadian SOI schedule, could Jeff have some free time to be working on choreo with him? Off season is rough!

I’m an American woman in my 20’s and yeah if I was asked to pose with a guy I didn’t know well and he put his hand on my waist I’d be uncomfortable with that. He’s just being polite and respectful.

Ok, CiONTU merch follow up question. Anyone else from the US who has used cdjapan? Which shipping option would be best? airmail, SAL small packet, etc. Should I just go for cheapest? I'm getting a t shirt, clear files, and the commemorative book.

I think those tweets above mentioned the channel? 060? I’ll check again. Thank you!!!

I’d love to watch, anyone know of someone hosting a rabbit? Though this is kinda last minute, I know. But unseen Yuzu footage! 😍

Oh yes, where to begin. Wikipedia covers it pretty well to be honest. He was injured pretty much the whole season. (I think GPF 14 might have been his only injury free comp?) Had to drop out of Finlandia due to back injury, so COC was his first comp as reigning Olympic and World champion. He had a devastating collision with Han Yan in the 6 min warm up for the free. Somewhat controversially, he skated anyway, fell 5 times, and finished second. Look up videos on youtube if you want to be horrified. He couldn't walk for a while after that, was in a wheelchair the next day, etc. So barely had any practice for NHK, two weeks later. NHK went badly since he wasn't recovered from COC injuries. He finished 4th and scraped by to the finals by .15. GPF was good I guess? Set a bunch of records and won. Later that month (Dec 14) he won Japanese Nationals. It was later revealed that he had an abdominal abcess that had burst at the time (infected urahcal cyst IIRC). After nationals he immediately had surgery and was hospitalized for 2 weeks. Then when he started training again in Japan, sprained his ankle and was out for 2 weeks. Went to 2015 Worlds having not seen Brian since December I think? and got second. Addendum- -Re the cyst and surgery, yuzusorbet.tumblr has the translated part of his autobiography that talks about it, it was really awful. -Also, to see more about his feelings on COC incident, he discussed it a lot on Kenji's room interview in 2015. The eng. subbed interview can be found int he media requests thread on PH. -Also, I read through the GS thread for that season and besides all the injuries, he seemed to rarely be in Toronto due to said injuries, so lost training time there. Also, in the summer of 2014 everyone seemed shocked by the number of shows he did in Japan, and he hasn't done that many any summer since. I wasn't a fan at the time, but I've read a lot since! It was a really rough season for him. Some very good results, but a lot of serious hardships too.

Thanks @SparkleSalad !!

Do you mean the 2014-2015 season or the 2015 calendar year?

Question about ordering CiONTU merch- I'm looking at using white rabbit express. I'm moving on may 15th, should I put the mailing address as my new address? Or just have it sent to my parents to be safe.

So Medvedeva is officially leaving Eteri!

Oh my goodness I've just been blindly hoping he only lurks on jp twitter because I'd have to go into lurking again if he has seen my posts on english twitter/PH. I'd be so embarrassed haha

Not to defend Phil at all, but comparing COR 2017 fancams to Pyeongchang fancams, I would agree that it looked like he lost muscle mass in his thighs, etc. Although that would obviously be the case since he could hardly keep up his fitness for several months. Although was phil asking weight loss since Sochi? I meant to say that I think he clearly lost muscle between October 17 and Feb 18, understandably so.

@sparklesalad oh my gosh he was so messing with us fans then

Oh I agree completely! I didn't believe him for a second when he said that. It's just not like him at all. Reminds me of how after worlds 17 (or around then or whatever) when there was some quote about him looking for music for the 17-18 season, and then it comes out that he decided at GPF 15 to use Seimei for the 17-18 season.