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Listened to it again (I just sorta speed typed) and you're right! Changed the transcript. Thanks!!

Sometime before 17th of September (when she released her interview with SLB). So after 3 July (when he visited the Naraha kids before hermitting) but before ACI.

Wrote a transcript in the Gen Yuzu thread. Might as well copy it here. PJ: So what are you really looking forward to this season? Tell me the biggest thing you're looking forward to. Kurt: ... Yuzuru Hanyu. I'm really excited about Yuzu because of something he said to me the other day. PJ: Tell me what he said. Kurt: Two things but one's private. He said 'I'm back this year' with his wonderful accent and barely English, but he's back to do a quad axel and that is some sexy, exciting stuff. PJ: I have seen it in practice. Not landed but holy smokes the speed, the height.. whoo! Kurt: And he's fragile like a bird so I hope he makes it through this. Um... and he and I had a talk about it. For about 5 days, a million years ago I was trying a quad axel PJ: Were you really? Kurt: I was. PJ: How close did you get? Did you land any? Kurt: No.. no, I didn't get close. It felt like... I told him... I said 'it felt like I was in the air forever'. Like I've gone up and (looks at watch) I've gotta be done now and then I'd open up early. Carol: Is it over? Kurt: Not done yet. And he laughed and said 'I know it feels like... forever'. And it is this (mou chotto pose) much longer than any of his other quads. Like this much. But the feeling, the way that we turn 4 is not the way you turn 4 with an axel. That's why the triple axel is different than the other triples and it just felt like I was in the air forever. So I felt validated that maybe, arguably, the best skater that's ever skated, you know, said that to me. I was like 'yeah! that's how I felt too.'

Transcription: starts at 13:07 PJ: So what are you really looking forward to this season? Tell me the biggest thing you're looking forward to. Kurt: ... Yuzuru Hanyu. I'm really excited about Yuzu because of something he said to me the other day. PJ: Tell me what he said. Kurt: Two things but one's private. He said 'I'm back this year' with his wonderful accent and barely English, but he's back to do a quad axel and that is some sexy, exciting stuff. PJ: I have seen it in practice. Not landed but holy smokes the speed, the height.. whoo! Kurt: And he's fragile like a bird so I hope he makes it through this. Um... and he and I had a talk about it. For about 5 days, a million years ago I was trying a quad axel PJ: Were you really? Kurt: I was. PJ: How close did you get? Did you land any? Kurt: No.. no, I didn't get close. It felt like... I told him... I said 'it felt like I was in the air forever'. Like I've gone up and (looks at watch) I've gotta be done now and then I'd open up early. Carol: Is it over? Kurt: Not done yet. And he laughed and said 'I know it feels like... forever'. And it is this (mou chotto pose) much longer than any of his other quads. Like this much. But the feeling, the way that we turn 4 is not the way you turn 4 with an axel. That's why the triple axel is different than the other triples and it just felt like I was in the air forever. So I felt validated that maybe, arguably, the best skater that's ever skated, you know, said that to me. I was like 'yeah! that's how I felt too.'

Yep~! Finland is where the paprika trauma originated.

Happy GP season! May everyone stay healthy...

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Koji Alexander Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower - 2004 Olympic Champion