Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we've already
Speaker 1: carefully laid out our watching on the Couch outfits for
Speaker 1: today's Olympic opening ceremony singular. Today on the show, Fantastic,
Speaker 1: reporter aj McCord is going to tell us about a
Speaker 1: few Olympic and Paralympic girlies to watch for in Paris
Speaker 1: and Tahiti.
Speaker 2: But first, here's what you need to know today Winter
Speaker 2: winner bald Eagle eight the African fish eagle for dinner.
Speaker 1: The US women's national soccer team beat Zambia three nil
Speaker 1: in their Olympic opener, mal Swanson scoring two goals in
Speaker 1: sixty six seconds, Trinity Rodman put the opposing d in
Speaker 1: the spin cycle, scoring a goal of her own, and
Speaker 1: Tierna Davidson, Naomi Germa, Kasey Krueger and the rest of
Speaker 1: the American d kept the dangerous Barbara Band off the
Speaker 1: score sheet.
Speaker 2: Three points for the USA.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we technically aren't even at day one of the Olympics,
Speaker 1: and commentators are already tripping up when discussing important issues,
Speaker 1: So we do have to set our Olympic days without incident.
Speaker 2: Counter back to zero.
Speaker 1: Soccer broadcaster John Champion began his discussion of Zambian coach
Speaker 1: Bruce Moape, saying, quote, Bruce Mowape, who is many would
Speaker 1: consider very fortunate to be here.
Speaker 2: John did go.
Speaker 1: On to discuss the investigation into sexual misconduct and even
Speaker 1: the fact that Moape had to take a taxi to
Speaker 1: the game separate from his team. But we would prefer
Speaker 1: a stronger opener to the discussion considering how messed up
Speaker 1: it is that Wape is even allowed to be at
Speaker 1: the tournament with the Zambian team. Remember how we told
Speaker 1: you about drone Gate and the Canadians spying on New Zealand. Well,
Speaker 1: Canada women's soccer beat the Football Ferns two to one
Speaker 1: yesterday and Group A play behind goals from Evelyn Via
Speaker 1: and Chloe Lacasse. Cheaters never prosper kids accept like this
Speaker 1: one time. Funny moment though, when Canada Soccer tweeted out,
Speaker 1: hey Canada, where are you watching today's match? From before kickoff?
Speaker 1: My girls over at Galpal Sports responded about one hundred
Speaker 1: feet off the ground, knock out blow.
Speaker 2: Well played.
Speaker 1: We've got some unfortunate news in US domestic soccer today.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Red Stars announced that defender Sam Stobbs NWSL
Speaker 1: season is over after she suffered a torn achilles tendon
Speaker 1: in an NWSL lega MX Feminial Summer Cup matchup with
Speaker 1: Gotham FC on July twentieth, Sam.
Speaker 2: We're sending you all the healing energies.
Speaker 1: More NWSL news, The Houston Dash of parted ways with
Speaker 1: GM Alex Singer, who joined the club in August twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two as its first ever GM. I'm sure we're
Speaker 1: going to get some more context on that decision, but
Speaker 1: for now, just another day in the NWSL, just another firing.
Speaker 2: The hell going on over there.
Speaker 1: Athletes Unlimited's Pro Softball League starts up today sixty of
Speaker 1: the most stellar softballers out there, like defending au Champ
Speaker 1: Odyssey Alexander, Sidney, McKinney, and Moore. They compete for five
Speaker 1: weeks at Parkway Bank Sports Complex in Rosemont, Illinois, which
Speaker 1: totally makes sense because softball was born in Chicago and
Speaker 1: Mount is right outside Chicago. If you didn't know, look
Speaker 1: it up, y'all. Everything dope is from Chicago. Things kick
Speaker 1: off at ESPN two tonight at seven pm Eastern, six
Speaker 1: pm Central, So tune in some more softball news this
Speaker 1: time in the college ranks. Raining NCUBA National Player of
Speaker 1: the Year Nijerie Kennedy is transferring to Texas Tech. The
Speaker 1: Athletic reported that Kennedy will receive a one year deal
Speaker 1: worth over one million dollars with the Mattador Club and
Speaker 1: nil collective for Texas Tech athletes. The previous high for
Speaker 1: a softball pitcher believed to be one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five thousand. The price is going up. Last season, Kennedy
Speaker 1: helped Stanford make its third NCUBA Women's College World Series appearance.
Speaker 2: Ever to hoops.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Sky has announced plans to build a new,
Speaker 1: state of the art practice facility for the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six season. According to a Sky press release, the performance
Speaker 1: center will feature multiple regulation sized courts, twenty four hour
Speaker 1: year round access, and community partnerships with the Obama Foundation
Speaker 1: and YMCA of Metro Chicago. And don't even think about it,
Speaker 1: Aubrey Plaza. If anyone gets to be the first person
Speaker 1: to tear their acl there, it's me. This news comes
Speaker 1: at the midpoint of a season that started with the
Speaker 1: franchise receiving a bunch of scrutiny for the setup of
Speaker 1: Angel Reese's introductory press conference at their current center ie
Speaker 1: no fans, few reporters, bad lighting, etc. And fans have
Speaker 1: continued to take shots at their lackluster facility all season.
Speaker 2: Well feedback herd feedback taken after the break.
Speaker 1: We talk gnarly waves and Paralympic powerhouses. Stick around joining
Speaker 1: us Now we've got a versatile reporter. She's covered everything
Speaker 1: from professionals surfing to pickleball, Paralympics, Olympics and more on
Speaker 1: outlets including ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS Sports Network, and Portland
Speaker 1: TV and radio. She's about to impress us by saying
Speaker 1: something super complicated in Portuguese.
Speaker 2: It's AJ mccor to hit it with the RIAA.
Speaker 3: It is a joy to be with you. That means
Speaker 3: thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, AJ, you're joining us because you've
Speaker 1: got this awesome new podcast called The Power Full. And
Speaker 1: you and I were at dinner in Tucson back in
Speaker 1: October and you were like, I have this idea that
Speaker 1: I want to do. I'm pitching it to my agents,
Speaker 1: like I want it to happen. You wanted to highlight
Speaker 1: women in extreme and outdoor sports a lot of the
Speaker 1: sports that you cover, So what inspired you to pitch
Speaker 1: it and how did you bring it to life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I grew up an extreme and outdoor sports athlete.
Speaker 4: I was a surfer my entire life, and then my
Speaker 4: competitive sport was gymnastics, and so for me, the Olympics
Speaker 4: were always kind of the pinnacle of sport. Like I know,
Speaker 4: for a lot of people, there's you know, super Bowls
Speaker 4: and titles and all this stuff, but for me, it
Speaker 4: was always the Olympics.
Speaker 3: That was always the end all be all.
Speaker 4: And then I was a whitewater rafting guide in college,
Speaker 4: did a lot of backpacking, and so in my personal
Speaker 4: life I kept getting drawn more and more to sort
Speaker 4: of these extreme sports. Was I think tapped into what
Speaker 4: I loved so much about gymnastics, which is like the
Speaker 4: thrill of gymnastics is something that I was really drawn to.
Speaker 4: And so for me, whitewater rafting was sort of it
Speaker 4: was the job I had in college and it was
Speaker 4: the one that really introduced me to outdoor sports and
Speaker 4: outside of surfing, which wasn't in the Olympics up until
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one. So for me it was just it
Speaker 4: was so it's so a part of who I am
Speaker 4: personally and that I was like, you know, I feel
Speaker 4: like professionally I love telling the stories of people who
Speaker 4: don't always often get their stories told, right, Like in
Speaker 4: a locker room set. For me, there's always there's always
Speaker 4: a group in Sarah, you know this sort of the
Speaker 4: number of locker rooms you've been in, right, there's always
Speaker 4: the ones who go very first to that superstar who
Speaker 4: had the game, who did that, and you have to
Speaker 4: check that box, especially depending on what you're covering. But
Speaker 4: for me, it was always a person who maybe was
Speaker 4: the assist or maybe had the standout night, like what's
Speaker 4: going on in your life, what's happening that made you
Speaker 4: have this night? And for me, that's always what I've
Speaker 4: been drawn to because I think in sport it's so
Speaker 4: much is a microcosm of our society. But there's also
Speaker 4: a reason we're all drawn to sport, right, And it's
Speaker 4: not just what these athletes are doing in their field
Speaker 4: of play, on the court, in the ocean, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: It's about how they live their lives.
Speaker 4: And so when I really started finding my voice and
Speaker 4: figuring out how I wanted to do that, and this
Speaker 4: season of my career, which is freelancing for the first time,
Speaker 4: I've been doing it for just over two years now,
Speaker 4: and it was really the first time in my career
Speaker 4: that I had the freedom to say, Okay, I get
Speaker 4: to choose this path. I get to choose these assignments,
Speaker 4: and it's not being dictated by the region that I
Speaker 4: live in, or the station that I'm working for, or
Speaker 4: even the teams that I'm covering. And so I decided,
Speaker 4: you know what, I am so stoked. And again, Sarah,
Speaker 4: you and I have been covering women's sports for a
Speaker 4: really long time, and I'm so stoked that it is
Speaker 4: having its moment right like fine, I know people are
Speaker 4: looking at women's sports and not seeing a charity, they're
Speaker 4: seeing a business, They're seeing amazing athletes, and we're getting
Speaker 4: the coverage that we've worked so hard for. And so
Speaker 4: I'm looking around, I'm going great, there's so much attention
Speaker 4: on the WNBA, there's so much attention on the NWSL.
Speaker 3: Who's not getting the attention.
Speaker 4: And it's my girls. It's my girls in the Olympic
Speaker 4: and extreme and outdoor sports. And so these are the
Speaker 4: ones that I've had the front row seat to get
Speaker 4: to cover some of the most amazing moments in women's
Speaker 4: surfing history in the last two years, and so I
Speaker 4: was like, this is where I want to be.
Speaker 3: This is going to be my baby, my passion project.
Speaker 4: And when I was sitting down with you in Tucson,
Speaker 4: I was just thinking about sort of the name of it,
Speaker 4: and what kept coming back to me was powerful and
Speaker 4: just how powerful these women are, not just in their
Speaker 4: fields of play, because oftentimes they're competing against nature herself,
Speaker 4: which we know Mother Nature is undefeated, but they were
Speaker 4: also doing it with such grace and strength and confidence
Speaker 4: in identity that to me, that is the powerful part,
Speaker 4: Like that's the her part, impowerful. And so I named
Speaker 4: it the Powerful spelled pow h r Ful because I
Speaker 4: wanted to highlight these women's power and it comes from within,
Speaker 4: it comes from the love of the game because for
Speaker 4: so often, for so many times, these women have had
Speaker 4: to not just do their.
Speaker 3: Sport, but have like five other jobs to make it work.
Speaker 4: So that's sort of the long story, the long story short.
Speaker 3: Of yeah, how it came to be.
Speaker 1: Well, and you're the perfect person to bring us these
Speaker 1: stories and also to get us fired up for this
Speaker 1: upcoming Olympics and Paralympics, because you've spent so much time
Speaker 1: talking to these great athletes, and so I asked you
Speaker 1: to bring us a couple to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: And I want to start with the surfing because you've
Speaker 1: been I love how you say front row seat, but
Speaker 1: it's like front beach.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 2: And when you say you know.
Speaker 1: Whether they're doing it like on the court, on the field,
Speaker 1: in the ocean, and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's very obvious. But it's so crazy to think that
Speaker 1: someone's court is the ocean, the unpredictability of all of it,
Speaker 1: other beings living where you're trying to win a medal,
Speaker 1: you know's there's so many elements that make surfing so
Speaker 1: fascinating and you've done such a great job of covering it.
Speaker 1: And that has brought you Carissa Moore, who was the
Speaker 1: first gold medalist in the Olympics when surfing was introduced
Speaker 1: in the last Olympics. She'll be back in Tahiti to compete,
Speaker 1: and let's start there. They're not even going to be
Speaker 1: in Paris. They're competing in Tahiti and you.
Speaker 2: Get to go there. So nice work, gig, thank you,
Speaker 2: But tell us about Carissa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Carissa is just one of those human beings
Speaker 4: that has so much light, and you walk into a
Speaker 4: room that she's in and you feel it, and for her, she.
Speaker 3: Always calls it aloha.
Speaker 4: She's a native Hawaiian, really proud of her Hawaiian heritage,
Speaker 4: and there's a whole story about how her being a
Speaker 4: native Hawaiian and duke who was a Hawaiian really is
Speaker 4: credited with sort of wanting to get surfing in the
Speaker 4: Olympics way decades and decades ago. So it's a really
Speaker 4: beautiful story that Carrissa, a Native Hawaiian, ended up being
Speaker 4: the first Olympic gold medalist in surfing. But when I
Speaker 4: brought her this idea, it was really cool because Ris
Speaker 4: is somebody who has been so intentional and so honest
Speaker 4: and so vulnerable.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the other thing that I'm.
Speaker 4: So grateful for in the extreme and Olympic and outdoor
Speaker 4: sports world is that so many of these athletes have
Speaker 4: never been asked the questions that are routine for athletes
Speaker 4: getting in the w and the NWSL and the NBA,
Speaker 4: NFL all this stuff, and so they're really willing to just.
Speaker 3: Be honest with you.
Speaker 4: And so Carissa is one of those surfers and one
Speaker 4: of those people, I should say, who just draws you
Speaker 4: in and what she's trying to do at the wave
Speaker 4: is called Chaa Hopo, which everyone.
Speaker 3: Calls it chops. That's how it's been known around the
Speaker 3: world for a long time. So feel free to go
Speaker 3: either way.
Speaker 4: If you say chops during the Olympics, you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm an insider with surfing. But this wave is iconic,
Speaker 4: and that's like almost putting it lightly. This wave translates
Speaker 4: from Tahitian into basically like wall of schools or crasher
Speaker 4: of schools because it is such a heavy wave that
Speaker 4: it really is like when you say a dynamic field
Speaker 4: of play, like the last thing the surfers are worried
Speaker 4: about are the animals that are also surfing with them.
Speaker 3: Instead, it is this massive slab.
Speaker 4: Of water that has the power to really do some
Speaker 4: damage over a shallow reef and you're trying to somehow
Speaker 4: ride it. And so for Caurisa, she is a five
Speaker 4: time world champion, she's the reigning Olympic gold medalist. But
Speaker 4: for her, her generation of women didn't necessarily have the
Speaker 4: same incentive to practice on waves like this, on waves
Speaker 4: like pipeline because they were not places that had women
Speaker 4: surfing competitions, So from at Chopes from two thousand and
Speaker 4: six to twenty twenty two, women were not having contests
Speaker 4: there because it was deemed too dangerous of a wave
Speaker 4: and it was a liability, which is a wild thing
Speaker 4: to say that twenty twenty two was the first year
Speaker 4: that there was a legitimate WSL sanctioned event at Tahiti
Speaker 4: for the women, But even before that, like in the
Speaker 4: two thousands, Kiala Kenney, Jesse, Miley Dyer. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: so many women who were blazing the trail of women
Speaker 4: surfing at these big, heavy waves like chokes like Pipeline.
Speaker 4: But Carissa was coming up at a time when they
Speaker 4: weren't having events there, So why would you go practice
Speaker 4: in a place you weren't going to play? And so
Speaker 4: Carrissa is taking this season, which is so cool after
Speaker 4: she's been on tour for a decade plus and she
Speaker 4: has these five world titles. She actually took this year
Speaker 4: off from competitive surfing after Pipeline and she did not
Speaker 4: compete in the rest of the WSL season up until
Speaker 4: she was a wildcred at the Tahiti event to get
Speaker 4: some practice in and so for her coming into the Olympics,
Speaker 4: she's in a very different season of her life than
Speaker 4: she ever has been because she's daring to ask herself
Speaker 4: the question who am I outside of a competitive surfer?
Speaker 4: And I think so many of us can relate to that,
Speaker 4: and especially when we love our jobs, we love our careers.
Speaker 4: So Carissa being the first guest was kind of perfect
Speaker 4: because for me, it was also like I was asking myself, like,
Speaker 4: who am I without this big brand behind me?
Speaker 3: Right, whether it's CBS, Orius, Men, whoever. And so it was.
Speaker 4: Really beautiful to have that conversation with Ris And I
Speaker 4: was so honored that she said yes because she was
Speaker 4: my first yes, and.
Speaker 3: It was the one that was like, yeah, no, I've
Speaker 3: believe in you, Aj and that meant more to me
Speaker 3: than I know.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we're definitely gonna listen to the Cariissa episode.
Speaker 1: Side note, when you mentioned Duke, the first thought I
Speaker 1: had was Lava Flows, which are the greatest drink that's
Speaker 1: ever been invented that you get at Duke's, which is
Speaker 1: named after that famous Hawaiian surfer. They're all over Hawaii,
Speaker 1: but they're also in Malibu and other places and if
Speaker 1: you have not had a lava flow, it is the
Speaker 1: most delicious drink you'll ever have.
Speaker 2: In your entire life. You can count on it.
Speaker 1: But such a cool story for Carissa, that native Hawaiian
Speaker 1: to be able to take that first medal.
Speaker 2: She'll try to repeat in Tahiti.
Speaker 1: We've got Sarah Adam also another episode of The Powerful
Speaker 1: Wheelchair Rugby. Tell me more about Sarah and why we
Speaker 1: should get fired up for this competition.
Speaker 3: Okay, So, wheelchair rugby is the sport that I kid
Speaker 3: you not is nicknamed murder ball.
Speaker 4: There was a two thousand and five documentary all about it,
Speaker 4: and that is because these Paralympic athletes trick out their
Speaker 4: wheelchairs to where they are battering rams. And wheelchair rugby
Speaker 4: is one of the very few mixed gender sports in
Speaker 4: the Olympics or Paralympics. And so Sarah Adam is actually
Speaker 4: the very first woman to compete for Team USA's Paralympic
Speaker 4: wheelchair rugby team. And so there have been women around
Speaker 4: the world, I think four or five of them who've
Speaker 4: competed in the Paralympics in the past, but she's the
Speaker 4: very first member of Team USA to be a woman
Speaker 4: and what's so cool is you talk to her teammates
Speaker 4: and they're like, well, yeah, she's a woman, but like
Speaker 4: she's so freaking good, Like there is no doubt, Like
Speaker 4: there's no you know, like I think a lot of
Speaker 4: times when you hear the first, right, there's almost that
Speaker 4: fear if you are the first, that that's why you
Speaker 4: got it, So you can be the first and like
Speaker 4: sort of check that box. But all of her teammates
Speaker 4: are like, uh uh, do not ding Sarah lightly. And
Speaker 4: she is like in her early thirties and just like
Speaker 4: this sweetish. She was an occupational therapist and she actually
Speaker 4: volunteered for Wheelchair Rugby long before she ever knew that
Speaker 4: she was going to sort of lose her mobility and
Speaker 4: become a member of Wheelchair Rugby. And so she faced
Speaker 4: out of Saint Louis and she's so sweet in person.
Speaker 4: Then her episode, I was like, man, you're so kind
Speaker 4: and so like, you know, she just gives off that
Speaker 4: very like teacherly vibe. And then I watched her highlights
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my gosh, get out the way.
Speaker 4: So watch out for Sarah because she is gonna be
Speaker 4: making some her.
Speaker 1: Story Wheelchair Rugby aka murder Ball already into it. I
Speaker 1: remember seeing that documentary, didn't watch, but I remember seeing
Speaker 1: all the publicity for it, and yeah, it's wildly physical. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: another episode we wanted to highlight Evy Leebfarth in kayak
Speaker 1: and canoe. So tell us about Evy and why you
Speaker 1: wanted to have her on.
Speaker 4: So Evvy, I mean, selfishly, this one was a little
Speaker 4: near and dear to my heart because whitewater rafting and
Speaker 4: canoeing and kayaking aren't all that far together.
Speaker 3: So we had a great.
Speaker 4: Time honestly sharing some pretty embarrassing stories about our most
Speaker 4: humbling moments on the river. I don't know who wins
Speaker 4: because mine wasn't training at hers was in the Olympics,
Speaker 4: so I think technically she wins, but.
Speaker 3: You know whatever.
Speaker 4: And she's just a really beautiful soul who is not
Speaker 4: only she's going to our second Olympics and she's in
Speaker 4: her early twenties, so she's one of the younger members
Speaker 4: of TMOSA to be a two time Olympian. She's competing
Speaker 4: in three disciplines this summer, which is the first time
Speaker 4: that any woman has ever done that in the for America.
Speaker 4: In canoe and kayak and so she's actually competing in
Speaker 4: a brand new discipline which is called kayak cross. So
Speaker 4: I think snowboard cross in the Winter Games translate that
Speaker 4: to like four huge boats dropping off of this ramp
Speaker 4: and then bumping into each other and trying to go
Speaker 4: through this course. It's the first time that it's ever
Speaker 4: going to be in the Olympics, and she's going to
Speaker 4: be competing in it.
Speaker 3: So she's really really sweet.
Speaker 4: But one of the reasons that I wanted to have
Speaker 4: her on outside of her accomplishments, is just how honest
Speaker 4: she's been about her journey of coming out and what
Speaker 4: that cost.
Speaker 3: Her early on, but what she learned through it.
Speaker 4: And I think as we talk about, you know, athletes again,
Speaker 4: I am so much about highlighting the human being underneath
Speaker 4: the jersey that I really felt like Evie had one
Speaker 4: of those stories that is so so incredibly universal, and
Speaker 4: yet she navigated it in such a beautiful and challenging.
Speaker 3: Way that there were lessons to be learned.
Speaker 4: And I think that, you know, I'm never going to
Speaker 4: go out and compete in kayak cross, although we did
Speaker 4: promise to do like an exchange of sports next year,
Speaker 4: so we see how that goes, but I can take
Speaker 4: a lesson from how she handled sharing news about who
Speaker 4: she is and what made her her that everybody didn't
Speaker 4: necessarily agree with when she first shared it. And I
Speaker 4: think that's what I want people to get from these
Speaker 4: episodes is, of course I want the sponsorship money, I
Speaker 4: want the attention to come to these women because they
Speaker 4: a million.
Speaker 3: Percent deserve it.
Speaker 4: But what I really believe was, like why I really
Speaker 4: believe they deserve it is because.
Speaker 3: They are you and I. They have the lessons of
Speaker 3: how they navigate life.
Speaker 4: They're so so universal and so beautiful and so Evy
Speaker 4: was wonderful. She squeezed me in in Paris. It was
Speaker 4: like six am my time working in Parisian time.
Speaker 3: I was like barely awake. And by the time she know,
Speaker 3: she's like had four red bulls at that point.
Speaker 4: So she was another really great episode, And I just
Speaker 4: I loved getting a chance to introduce again new sports,
Speaker 4: like let's get behind these women who are making some history.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we all know that once you have
Speaker 1: a little bit of information, that's really all you need
Speaker 1: to get interested in something. So I love that you're
Speaker 1: on here giving us these names. We can go looking
Speaker 1: for them. We can go looking for their events and
Speaker 1: maybe introduce ourselves to an event or a sport that
Speaker 1: we're not as familiar with and get super into it.
Speaker 1: That's one of the best parts of the Olympics is
Speaker 1: how they give us a little bit of the storytelling,
Speaker 1: tell us the stakes and the rules, and then we're
Speaker 1: all in. So you can check out all of the podcasts,
Speaker 1: learn more about aj get excited about everything at the
Speaker 1: Powerful dot com pow h E r f U. Well,
Speaker 1: the Powerful dot com is where all the episodes of
Speaker 1: the podcast live. Before we let you go. You're headed
Speaker 1: to Tahiti to cover the surfing. So what is the
Speaker 1: most exciting thing you've heard about going there? Maybe what's
Speaker 1: the toughest part about covering surfing?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I mean, pinch me. I'm so excited.
Speaker 4: I started my career covering tornadoes in Fayaville, Arkansas, and
Speaker 4: now I get to go to Tahiti and cover Olympic surfing.
Speaker 3: Like, are you kidding me? This is the dream?
Speaker 4: So I'm so excited to root on these athletes and
Speaker 4: to get to bring everybody sort of the front row
Speaker 4: seat to their stories. But I think if there's anything
Speaker 4: sort of hard quote unquote about covering surfing. It's again
Speaker 4: the field of play because obviously we're out in the ocean,
Speaker 4: and so actually everybody who's covering the games are going
Speaker 4: to be on boats in the channel. And so if
Speaker 4: you've never sort of sat in the ocean, I don't
Speaker 4: know how to describe it other than like, you know,
Speaker 4: like a waterbed, Like, yeah, imagine a waterbed on steroids
Speaker 4: and knowing that like five feet away from where you're
Speaker 4: sitting on waterbed is like a twenty foot wave that
Speaker 4: wants to just like pop you right off. But like
Speaker 4: the channel is sort of this safe spot, but it
Speaker 4: doesn't really feel that same because you're just like moving
Speaker 4: up and down, up and down, and you're seeing what
Speaker 4: the wave is doing like twenty feet away from you,
Speaker 4: and you're just like, Okay, I trust the science that
Speaker 4: I'm in the channel, and when I'm in the channel,
Speaker 4: the wave is not going to break here. But like
Speaker 4: you see it and it's so crazy. So I've sat
Speaker 4: in a few channels around around the world where they
Speaker 4: have these like big barreling waves, and it's something that
Speaker 4: never ceases to amaze me because I just like I
Speaker 4: feel like I'm a you know, I'm a confident, strong woman,
Speaker 4: and then I get in the ocean and I'm like, nope,
Speaker 4: I'm super humble.
Speaker 3: I will just sit here. I will mind my business.
Speaker 3: I will not go where I'm not supposed to go.
Speaker 2: And let me get back to early. You're a lifelike steat.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to I'm trying to picture.
Speaker 1: Like the scrubs in like the Bear's locker room, trying
Speaker 1: to like sit on a boat and do their job.
Speaker 2: It's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's like a whole other competition for your journalists just
Speaker 1: to like stay in the boat and watch what you're watching.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited for your podcast. I'm so excited for you.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to see you and follow your coverage.
Speaker 1: Where can people follow you and support your coverage?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you mentioned the Powerful the Powerful dot com
Speaker 4: And then we also have a social media account where
Speaker 4: I'm posting all of the clips for me to the episodes,
Speaker 4: and I'm just really excited about some things that stood
Speaker 4: out to me, some really funny moments. One of the
Speaker 4: women we didn't talk about, but is the Pride of Alaska,
Speaker 4: a love kelter who's going to be competing for rugby,
Speaker 4: and she told me the story about how straight up,
Speaker 4: growing up in Alaska, she confused a black bear or
Speaker 4: a bear for a black lab.
Speaker 3: When she was a child, and so like these are
Speaker 3: the things, these are the things that come up in
Speaker 3: our podcast. We just it's so much fun.
Speaker 4: So anyway, the Powerful pow h E R f U
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Speaker 3: I'm going to be doing my absolute best to make
Speaker 3: you feel.
Speaker 4: Like you are in Tahiti with me, because yes, you
Speaker 4: please get it. It's a dream assignment and I want
Speaker 4: you to feel like you're there.
Speaker 3: So we love that. That's where you can find it.
Speaker 2: We love it. Thank you so much, AJ, and have fun.
Speaker 3: Thanks Sarah, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: How awesome is she? So awesome? Love her.
Speaker 1: But now I kind of have double fomo because I'm
Speaker 1: missing out on Paris and Tahiti. I'm just gonna pretend
Speaker 1: it's not happening, gonna gonna surf the waves in my
Speaker 1: mind during this break.
Speaker 2: Be sure to come back though.
Speaker 1: Somebody done fucked around and found out tgif it's time
Speaker 1: for freck around and find out.
Speaker 2: Fridays and we're ready to be petty.
Speaker 1: Today we're calling out the clown who tried to roast
Speaker 1: Olympic rugby player Alta Mayor in her Instagram comments for
Speaker 1: having a high BMI because first of all, mind the
Speaker 1: business that pays you, and second of all, well let's
Speaker 1: let Alana do the talking.
Speaker 5: I think you for this comment, I think you were
Speaker 5: trying to roast me, but this is actually fact. I
Speaker 5: do have a BMI of thirty well twenty nine point three.
Speaker 5: Even more exact, I've been considered overweight my whole life.
Speaker 5: In middle school, elementary school, high school, I was always
Speaker 5: considered overweight. I remember, viv one time in high school
Speaker 5: I did turning the physical to the office and right
Speaker 5: at the bottom of the page it said overweight and
Speaker 5: I was so embarrassed to turn that in andto to
Speaker 5: have that written there. So my whole life I've been
Speaker 5: this way. I chatted with my dietician because I go
Speaker 5: off of you know, facts and not just what pops
Speaker 5: up here, you know, like you do, and we talked
Speaker 5: about BMI and we talked about how it really isn't
Speaker 5: helpful for athletes. BMI doesn't tell you much. It just
Speaker 5: tells you what your height and weight and what that equals.
Speaker 5: I've said it before. I'm five to ten two hundred
Speaker 5: pounds and I have about and it's this is an estimate,
Speaker 5: but about one hundred and seventy pounds of lean mass
Speaker 5: on me. Do that math in your head. You probably can't.
Speaker 5: That's pretty crazy, right, And that BMI doesn't really tell
Speaker 5: you what I can do. It doesn't tell you what
Speaker 5: I do in the field, how fit I am. It's
Speaker 5: just a couple numbers put together. Doesn't tell you how
Speaker 5: much muscle I have or anything like that.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, I do have a BMI.
Speaker 5: I'm thirty, I am considered overweight, but alas I'm going
Speaker 5: to the Olympics and you're not.
Speaker 1: You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes commenter. And
Speaker 1: by the way, BMI it played a key role in
Speaker 1: the origins of eugenics. It allows insurance companies to sometimes
Speaker 1: charge higher premiums for people with a high BMI, even
Speaker 1: if they're perfectly healthy. And it makes absolutely no allowance
Speaker 1: for the relative proportions of bone, muscle and fat in
Speaker 1: the body. Bone is denser than muscle and twice as
Speaker 1: dense as fat, so a person with strong bones, good
Speaker 1: muscle tone, and low.
Speaker 2: Fat, we'll have a high BMI even if they're fit
Speaker 2: as hell.
Speaker 1: So until BMI starts taking into account the weight of
Speaker 1: titty meat and a squat's built ass, we're not interested.
Speaker 1: And for all the folks out there, we know athletes
Speaker 1: come in different shapes and sizes. Fitness looks different on
Speaker 1: and means something different to everybody. So whether you're actually
Speaker 1: an Olympic athlete or the best fan of all fans,
Speaker 1: we see you, baby, and you're perfect as is. We
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