This is, quite possibly, the most entertaining interview i have ever encountered.

[rob_t_firefly@masto.hackers.town]

@masukomi I don't generally like sports or sports interviews, but this one is indeed fantastic and may be my favorite one ever.

[sublimeoverload@mastodon.social]

@masukomi Read it outloud to my partner, was pretty funny.

[bouncinglime@spanner.works]

@masukomi beautiful amazing gross just zero fucks given but also "I think a lot of it was spite" ::chef's kiss::

> Her open-water experience, she wrote, has been limited mostly to some cold plunges and crossing Kalamalka Lake in the Okanagan "where I spent a frankly unreasonable amount of time floating on my back in the sunshine and singing to myself."

this sounds like the ideal life???

[ljwrites@writeout.ink]

@masukomi Here's to hoping she's even funnier after she does the Channel crossing!

[twynn@mas.to]

@masukomi Thanks for sharing. I wonder why they chose to leave some questions/responses out from the article, e.g., the ginger tea bit of the phone interview?

[salty@mastodon.nz]

@CyrilBrulebois @masukomi @zhenech Melanie is all of us

[wobweger@mstdn.social]

@masukomi
merci for the pointer

[hollie@social.coop]

@masukomi She is hilarious!

[owlor@meow.social]

@masukomi Just looking at that smile I knew the interview was gonna be good and it was. It sounds like she lost her filter during the swim.

[aperture@snug.moe]

@masukomi HELP THIS IS SO FUNNY

truly a great representative of the pnw

- carrie

[haraldki@nrw.social]

@masukomi

For those in other parts of the world, here is where she started, afaict.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.474&mlon=-123.887#map=9/49.474/-123.887

[malm@mathstodon.xyz]

@masukomi A lot of funny bits, some more profound like the breaking of the record 'It's hard to feel kind of an ego about it because I feel like no two swims in the ocean are ever the same, because you never know what current someone gets stuck in or whatever. So it's kind of hard to feel a superiority complex in a sense when it's not equal.'

[emmaf_77@piaille.fr]

@masukomi #matriarchy #feminism just two women talking really

[pkyo@kind.social]

"Did I eat ice cream for nothing?"

@masukomi

[shivers@mastodon.ie]

@masukomi Found another article about Melanie Buggey and her swim with more delightful quotes/insights: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/the-impossible-feat-nanaimo-woman-swims-across-strait-of-georgia-in-record-time-12688937

[a@beige.party]

@masukomi Absolutely brilliant.

[tgent_fens@mastodonapp.uk]

@masukomi this has strong vibes of @JohnFinnemore 's classic "World's Fastest Tricyclist" sketch. Which I wish I had a link to.
Both say everything I've always thought about the advantages of NOT wanting to be an elite athlete.

[littlemouse@mastodon.scot]

@masukomi fantastic read. Thank you

[gifmodel@olia.geocities.institute]

@masukomi
indeed! :)))

[djgummikuh@mastodon.social]

@masukomi what a great woman. It's people like these that hold the torch for our species if you ask me.