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Breakfast with The Ice Queens

Reporting and recording from the U.S. Nationals in San Jose, California. Sure, the Ice Network may have Johnny Weir, but you’ve got us!

First up:

The Pairs

Featuring Cain and Reagan, Castelli and Shnapir, Donlan and Speroff, Evora and Ladwig, Marley and Brubaker, and the Frankenteam – Denney and Coughlin.

Followed by:

The Men

Featuring Richard Dornbush, Brandon Mroz, Scott Dyer, Jason Brown, Max Aaron, Keegan Messing, Stephen Carriere, Douglas Razzano, Armin Mahbanoozadeh, Ross Miner, Adam Rippon, and Jeremy Abbott.

Liz and Jason Brown

Plus, celebrity sightings!

And with that, we bid a fond farewell to beautiful San Jose. But we don’t leave alone. We have with us new friends, new memories, and, most importantly, new cocktail recipes. Thanks, Nationals!

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The Ice Queens preparing to podcast

We’re at the U.S. Nationals in San Jose, California, and we’ve got the bar tabs to prove it. If we’re a little hard to hear, it’s because we’re podcasting from the McCormick & Schmick’s across from the Fairmont Hotel, and we’re not going to let a little thing like room noise get in the way of us getting our drinks. But enough about us. Let’s talk about some American skaters!

First up:

The Men

We missed the Men’s short competition because we decided to see Shame instead. We have our priorities. Plus, we had to deal with the bad news about Evgeni Plushenko and Artur Gachinski.

Next:

Ice Dancing

Featuring Cannuscio and McManus, Chock and Bates, Kriengkrairut and Giulietti-Schmitt, Hubbell and Donohue, Shibutani and Shibutani, and Davis and White.

Then:

Liz and Tori prepare for the Ladies

Followed by:

Liz and Tori actually watch some figure skating

The Ladies

Featuring Vanessa Lam, Angela Wang, Mirai Nagasu, Rachael Flatt, Christina Gao, Caroline Zhang, Agnes Zawadzki, Alissa Czisny, and Ashley Wagner.

Part 2 coming soon!

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The 2011 Grand Prix Final – when it wasn’t boring us, it was bugging us.

The Men

Javier Fernández gives Ryan a run for his money. Jeremy Abbott: we have high expectations for him. Daisuke Takahashi gets the short end of the stick. Patrick Chan gets no respect.

The Pairs

Kavaguti & Smirnov and Volosozhar & Trankov attend this event. Savchenko & Szolkowy create some suspense.

Ice Dancing

Shibutani & Shibutani still make us squeamish. Péchalat & Bourzat don’t get a link. Virtue & Moir need to go to the cleaners. Davis & White, you know, win.

The Ladies

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva goes green. Alissa Czisny joins the fight club. Alena Leonova breaks all the rules. Our rules, that is. Akiko Suzuki get a new look. Carolina Kostner also gets a new look.