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What do Conan O’Brien, a figure skater and a senior tortoise share?
They’re all making us smile today:
Even the pros need to begin someplace. And in the most current episode of the podcast Podcrushed, the Brookline native had a look back at his simple starts.
In the episode, the Podcrushed hosts resurfaced a video of the comic and television host in intermediate school practicing a bit with his sis. Conan’s dealing with his back-and-forth patter, developing thriller– as all excellent comics do– and after that he provides the tag line.
The joke made me laugh. Simply as amusing (and heartfelt) was listening to contemporary Conan roast his more youthful self: “That person does not understand what he’s doing.”
Olympic gold medalist Nathan Chen just recently went back onto the rink to carry out to the brand-new acoustic variation of “Hold Me Closer” by John and Britney Spears.
The duet is itself a reward, and enjoying Chen skate to the music is downright enchanting. Congratulations to the video camera team for offering us an up-close take a look at every turn and spin on the ice, each relocation as light as newly fallen snow.
According to the Guinness World Records, that makes him the oldest living land animal understood to male. He’s something of a celeb in St. Helena, the British island area in the South Atlantic where he’s lived for over a century. He’s done more than simply present for traveler pictures (though there is a lot of that); his DNA might likewise contribute to our understanding of aging and cancer.
If we needed to think, the trick to durability according to Jonathan might depend on his slow-paced life– or in all the lettuce greens and bananas he’s consumed, consisting of in the type of a salad cake (a salad cake!) that his caretakers got him for his birthday celebration.
We’ll take that as a suggestion to get rest, consume our veggies and mark essential turning points with what we enjoy.
