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Johnny Weir

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
144 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And we find the fun and the humor and everything that we do.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And I think that's, that's why we keep going.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

That's why we keep working and showing up at the Super Bowl when we shouldn't.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

Well, I think,

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

We we both come not only just from skating backgrounds, but we're both from Tara was born in Philly.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

I'm from Amish country outside Philly.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

We come from a similar place and we have very similar values, I think, in the way that we were raised in the way that we grew up.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And there's just that natural way that we respond to one another.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

just from humble upbringings.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And then as we got into sports, we were both obviously very competitive.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

Tara won so early and there's such a drive that you have to have to be able to accomplish that and hold all the pressure of the world on your shoulders.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And in my own way, I didn't win the Olympics like her, but in my own way, I dealt with a lot of pressure to be

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

to be the face of something when all I was trying to do was to be a skater and to be a great skater.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And I think figure skating and any professional level sport or Olympic level sport, it forces you into being flawless

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And I think that both of us having been raised up in that and like, you're not allowed to fail.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

There is no opportunity to fall down.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

You cannot do something halfway.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

I think that growing up in that gave us the opportunity to, as entertainers now and people that work in television now,

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

We can just try anything and take it on the chin.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Two Guys, Five Rings: Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir

And even if we're not great at it, we can laugh our way through it.