• Our favorite moments from the virtual live show with Cecile Landi and Levi, (watch highlights here) our 2025 Opportunity for Comedy Awards, two college mini-commissions where we delve into all the Alabama-Georgia drama that never made it into the Suzanne and Sarah documentary.
• Watch this week's episode with GIFS on Youtube
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(5:25) 2025 Opportunities for Comedy Awards

• The ''OH HELL NO I am not going out of bounds'' award
• Eastern Michigan and West Virginia both contending for the ''you understood the assignment'' award
• Why Leila Vasilieva is getting the ''Wolf Turn Protest Award''
• Recognizing Zoey Molomo as the winner of the ''Olly Hogben Unintentional Dismount'' award
• The impact of Courtney McCool's right heel and why it deserves to win the ''Style Accessory of the Year'' award
• What would this show even be if we didn't have at least six candidates for the ''Fall of the Year'' award
• Which country wins our ''awkward moment of the year'' award
• Giorgia Villa, Angela Andreoli, and Martina Maggio making us feel seen with mic issues on a live broadcast

32:05 GYMTERNET NEWS

• ICYMI the FIG has rebranded themselves as World Gymnastics. Are there any big changes to come from this?
• How are the NCAA pre-season intrasquad meets looking?
  • Georgia looked goooood
    • What insights did Cecile give us about Camarah Williams and JaFree Scott at the live show?
  • UCLA looked very UCLA in December
  • Kayla DiCello is so back
  • Ana Barbosu is going to dominate at Stanford
• Nina Derwael was knighted and granted the grade of Grand Officier of the Order of Leopold by King Phillippe as recognition for her gymnastics career

45:29 MINI-COMMISSION: One Per Event Dream Team

• Using only gymnasts from the past three years, selecting gymnasts from any team, who would be on our ideal college gymnastics teams?

1:07:11 MINI-COMMISSION: Alabama-Georgia Drama

• We go into depth as to how the Georgia-Alabama started, the back and forth between the teams, and of course the outfits and ''stereotypes'' of each team
  • The dog bite incident
• How dominant were these teams in the SEC and nationally?
• What legacies do these teams carry on that are still applicable today?
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