|
|
| Star 94 Radio Station... March 2, 2002 -- CONTINUED |
S- Well yours is a very interesting story because you really didn’t even put on skates until you were, what? 14 years of age?
Ap- Yeah, that’s uh… I was accepted into the Junior National Program. I, I’ve been skating since I was about 12, ‘bout early 13.
S- Uh-huh…
Ap- But I never really seriously started skating ‘til I was 14.
V- So did you think about the Olympics at 14 or not even then?
Ap- Oh yeah, of course.
V- Of course?
Ap- Yeah, yeah. Because, I mean, Nagano was coming up so for me, ya know? I had… it was two years later and I was gonna be 16 in that winter Olympics. I was young, but I definitely felt I had a shot.
S- You were and inline skater right?
Ap- Yep
S- So before that. Before the ice skates.
Ap- And a swimmer.
S- And your dad… okay. Alright.
Ap- Yeah.
S- So were playing, were you ever playing hockey?
Ap- No, never played hockey.
S- Just doing the inline stuff?
Ap- Just doing the inline. You know, then like the regular sports, you know when I run…
S- (as he’s talking) Um-hmm
Ap- …basketball, baseball, football, just my friends and stuff
S- And I imagine that young people, when you talk to young people I wonder if this is a message that you bring up ‘cuz I notice your knick name is chunky and in your bio, they talk about when you were younger. You still go by that nickname with people?
Ap- Yeah. Ever since I was about…7 or 8.
S- Do they?
V- But Big Nasty, does he call you chunky?
Ap- (laughs) Yeah sometimes. Yeah.
S- (imitating them) (Apolo “Hey Big Nasty!” (Roger “Chunk!”
Ap- Yeah. He gotta, he gotta interesting name too. (More laughing)
S- Other than big nasty? But so, when you were younger then I guess, this brought on, you felt like you were kind of a heavy set kid?
Ap- No. Actually, when I got that nick name I was pretty, I was pretty little
S- Okay
Ap- But, I don’t know. Everybody from home, my home town, just like had nicknames. Worm… Sleepy… You know. So it goes the whole list…
V- Dopey…
S- You’re one of the seven dwarves!
V- Oh that’s one of the seven dwarves, right! (More laughing)
S- You were up in Seattle?
Ap- Yep, yep.
S- And still your home
Ap- Yeah. I haven’t been home though. You know, since this whole whirlwind, but…
V- (cutting in) Now my husband was just there. He said that it, the sun only shines 59 days out of the year. True? ‘ Cuz someone told him that in Seattle.
Ap- I don’t know about that
V- And he was there for three days and it was sunny and people were just very happy. They felt like kissing him, they were that happy. There was like this “big happiness” all over Seattle.
Ap- (laughing) I don’t think so. New York? I think New York rains more than Seattle does.
V- No! (unbelieving)
Ap- Yeah!
V- That can’t be true!
Ap- Yeah.
S- Actually we get more rain than Seattle does… per capita. Yeah.
Ap- See, look at that. Right there.
S- Um-hmm. See. It’s just that it’s cloudier there a lot more. They don’t have as many days of sunshine.
Ap- Yeah it’s definitely…
V- But that’s what I said. Only 59 days of sunshine.
Ap- I think… I don’t know. ‘Cuz the summer’s beautiful in Seattle. That’s my favorite place to be, besides LA.
V- Um-kay
S- I bet it’s clean air though too, huh? Crisp clean.
Ap- Yeah. It’s pretty good.
S- Nice mountain air. 7:19, Apolo Anton Ohno is with us, and your questions at (lists phone number). Hi your on with Apolo!
Mom (M)- Hey, Apolo! I think you need to let Vicky shave you because…
S- Yeah! See?
V- Yeah!!!
M- We’ve got to do somethin’ to make him not so dang cute because he is driving my teenage daughter CRAZY!
Ap- (laughs)
M- It’s Apolo mania in my household!!! (more laughs)
(Razor sounds in the back ground once more)
Ap- Uh-oh
V- We could do it and raise money for CARE.
M- It was worth it. Vicky, it was a fabulous idea.
V- I know!
Ap- I don’t know…
S- Alright, we’ll give you 500 dollars, today.
Ap- (laughing uneasily) No! You can get one hair.
S and V- One hair?!!!
Ap- (laughing) Get some tweasers.
V- Oh come on!
S- Let us take off one side burn!
Ap- I don’t know.
S- You’ll get people talking tonight!
M- I’m gonna tell my daughter. She will want you to send the hair to us so she can put it in her scrap book ‘cuz she’s just…
Ap- (laughing)
V- Yeah!
Ap- In a little envelope?
V- We could shave it and then auction the hair off. How’s that? You could grow it back.
Ap- Oh no.
S- I could make money. See, I already got his gold medal on e-bay. I’m already up to a thousand bucks on e-bay with this gold medal and then I could add some hair to it. Oh what a crazy society! Thanks for your call! We should ask that call that came in earlier.
V- She might be on…
V- Oh, she got back on. There was someone dying to talk to you. Is, is it you?
Lady (L)- Yes it’s me.
V- Okay. |
|
|
