Speaker 1: Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio Entree Fork Media. My name is Jensen Carpet,
Speaker 1: and I'm a sports fan and I've been wondering did
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco sign a one year deal with the Jets
Speaker 1: hoping there's no NFL season. It's the only thing that
Speaker 1: makes sense to me. Then he could just be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, what a bummer. I guess I'm off to
Speaker 1: somewhere else that isn't the Jets. He's gonna be watching
Speaker 1: these Fauci press conferences holding a rosary and sweating on
Speaker 1: the edge of his seat. And as soon as training
Speaker 1: camps are announced, I'm betting Flacco starts faking a cough.
Speaker 1: I'm onto you, dude. I'm still talking athletes, though, in
Speaker 1: sports industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine, hoping
Speaker 1: to figure out if THEYM is competing as much as
Speaker 1: I missed watching it. This is the No Sports Report. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm known for my good ideas. And here's another one.
Speaker 1: If you were on the two thousand fifteen FIFA Women's
Speaker 1: World Cup team, you should get free drink wherever you go.
Speaker 1: From the t g I Fridays in Times Square to
Speaker 1: Mickey's in All Cash Bar and Orange, California. You just
Speaker 1: never pay for a thing. Actually, no matter where you go,
Speaker 1: it could be a build to bear. You want to drink,
Speaker 1: you get one brought to you. And that's because you're
Speaker 1: part of one of the most glorious winds our country
Speaker 1: has ever seen. So bottoms up, and we're starting with
Speaker 1: Megan Clickenberg. The Defender was a vital part of the
Speaker 1: iconic squad and now is a proud member of the
Speaker 1: Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League. And now
Speaker 1: she's dipping her toe into fashion alongside her World Cup
Speaker 1: teammates and fellow Free drinkers Megan Rappino, Tobin Heath and
Speaker 1: Kristin Press. They've launched reinc, a gender neutral lifestyle brand
Speaker 1: that offers a distinct look for every unique body and
Speaker 1: challenges the status quo. We talked about their newest collection,
Speaker 1: her Passion for Pasta, and the novel Idea of gender Equality.
Speaker 1: It's a brand new episode of The No Sports Report,
Speaker 1: all from Meghan Klingenberg to accept Press one. Megan, I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you first off, where you were quarantining
Speaker 1: location wise, and then I know this is a very
Speaker 1: heavy question, one that deserves probably paragraphs upon paragraphs. But
Speaker 1: but how has it been going for you? Yeah, thank
Speaker 1: you for asking. I appreciate that. Um I'm doing okay,
Speaker 1: I think about as best you can do under these circumstances.
Speaker 1: And I'm actually in Pittsburgh with my family. Just a
Speaker 1: quick story. When I was growing up, my parents, they
Speaker 1: always had this goal of wanting to get a bit
Speaker 1: of property and build a house on it. My mom
Speaker 1: has always wanted to build her own house from scratch
Speaker 1: with her architects or whatever. And so they finally did it.
Speaker 1: They got some property, and you know, I as a kid,
Speaker 1: when I was in high school, it was a bit
Speaker 1: annoying because we had all of this property and not
Speaker 1: very many people around. And now I've never been more
Speaker 1: thankful for having a bit of land to to just
Speaker 1: you know, run around and be outside and I'll have
Speaker 1: to worry about seeing other people. It's just funny how
Speaker 1: one thing doesn't feel like a blessing and then later
Speaker 1: in life really does. Yeah. I mean, are you sleeping
Speaker 1: in your childhood bedroom? Yeah? I yam. Actually it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Basic are there like old like a y s oh
Speaker 1: soccer trophies and stuff so many and there's like karate trophies,
Speaker 1: and it's also kind of become everybody's spare hearts room,
Speaker 1: you know. There there's old jerseys of mine, there's my
Speaker 1: brother's TV from college. There's just like all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff in there, plus me, plus all the things that
Speaker 1: my mom deck greate in my room with when I
Speaker 1: was like fourteen. So it feels like the funniest throw back.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I was lucky my parents when I
Speaker 1: went off to college left my room like it was
Speaker 1: a museum shrine. Like I feel like they laminated stuff
Speaker 1: so that nothing got damaged. You know that's funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with my mom, she basically told my dad, over her
Speaker 1: dead body, he would turn it into an exercise or room.
Speaker 1: She basically didn't change anything, kept my childhood posters up
Speaker 1: to kept my bed in there, and then she said
Speaker 1: for the first few months she would come in and
Speaker 1: just cry, oh poor mom, it's like a museum. It
Speaker 1: is if if they don't live there anymore. But if
Speaker 1: they did, I swear to God, I would be forty
Speaker 1: years old right now and she would still have my
Speaker 1: stuff there. It says a lot about me and her,
Speaker 1: But yes, a completely different situation. At least they've kept
Speaker 1: some of your trophies and stuff. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's funny. The trophies were actually like way cooler
Speaker 1: than the ones that I get. Now. Let you get
Speaker 1: just a medal now and then the team gets a trophy.
Speaker 1: But when you were on a team as a kid,
Speaker 1: or you did Grotty or whatever, all the things that
Speaker 1: I did, you would get like real big trophies just
Speaker 1: for you. So now I'm just like stuck with medals
Speaker 1: and who wants to medal? You know, well, I mean
Speaker 1: I would want to medal, but you do have you
Speaker 1: have like a photo of you holding the trophy rather
Speaker 1: than the trophy at your house, is what you're kind
Speaker 1: of alluding to. But yes, yeah, yeah, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of nice like to have a trophy or a cup
Speaker 1: or whatever, especially when you're celebrating, because you can always
Speaker 1: pour your beer in the cup and then you know,
Speaker 1: celebrate with your teammates. I feel like the nwell just
Speaker 1: really missed out on that part because they have a
Speaker 1: trophy that's just like in the shape of a soccer player,
Speaker 1: you know, so you can't really do much with it
Speaker 1: except hold it. Yeah, well, I say, let's go back
Speaker 1: to the individual trophies and orange slices. I would be
Speaker 1: fine with both of those for soccer. Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: know why I can't get my own prepackaged little baggy
Speaker 1: at halftime, you know, like a beautiful silver platter. Megan
Speaker 1: is calling for her orange slices again exactly, and and
Speaker 1: a sip of gatorade, please bring it for the lady.
Speaker 1: Are you able to decipher what day it is when
Speaker 1: you wake up? Do you have any sort of ability
Speaker 1: to calendar out what's happening? Actually no, not not even
Speaker 1: a little bit. The only way that I know approximately
Speaker 1: which day it is is I've been doing don't at
Speaker 1: Sunday's and so it's kind of like an countdown, like
Speaker 1: today is Donut Sunday plus one if you if you
Speaker 1: catch my drift, like you know, because we're out one
Speaker 1: day from Dona Sunday and then you know Friday is
Speaker 1: Donut Sunday Monut two. So that's that's pretty much how
Speaker 1: I've been keeping track of it. And that's pretty much
Speaker 1: the only day that I am officially aware of on
Speaker 1: the day of the event, right, And what is your
Speaker 1: what is your donut of choice. Oh wow, I think
Speaker 1: it depends on the mood when I wake up. But
Speaker 1: they have this place in Portland's and it's called Dough Donut,
Speaker 1: so it's all vegan don't let go stoppy though it's
Speaker 1: by far the best don't a place in Portland, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure people will be screaming about that, but they'll say, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's definitely not gonna do. It's dough, I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: And they have these amazing flavors, but I always get
Speaker 1: usually two and a coffee, and I always get to
Speaker 1: Portland's fog plus like another flavor that I just want
Speaker 1: to try. But the Portland Bog is like an earl
Speaker 1: gray glaze with a coconut whipped cream on top. Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's good. I'm dying already, and I'm happy you got
Speaker 1: into food. Let's get into pasta class. You held a
Speaker 1: tutorial on zoom instructing people on how to make pasta.
Speaker 1: Did you know this? And also how is it possible
Speaker 1: that you eat carbs? Okay? Back in upject, I was
Speaker 1: just a conduit to bring these people to Pietro, who
Speaker 1: is the official pasta maestro. My mom and I actually
Speaker 1: took a trip last November. We went to a bunch
Speaker 1: of places, but we end up going to Milan, and
Speaker 1: Mom booked one part of the trip, only one part right,
Speaker 1: but it ended up being our favorite part. It was
Speaker 1: this pasta making class of this guy to hold his
Speaker 1: named Pietro and his mom came when we made tire
Speaker 1: mamsoon we made pasta, when we made friends and we
Speaker 1: had an absolute last and so I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: why not do that virtually and bring people together and
Speaker 1: connect with them, because I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are struggling being alone right now. So it was just
Speaker 1: nice to eat and gather and have some wine and
Speaker 1: be merry and connect over something that's really fun to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and a bunch of people showed up to
Speaker 1: learn how to make pasta. Did you know it before
Speaker 1: this class you took? Like, I don't even think I
Speaker 1: would know what does I barely know how to cook pasta? Well,
Speaker 1: that's why we have pasta. Pietro. He sends out an
Speaker 1: ingredient list and actually we have to close down the
Speaker 1: class about an hour after I posted about it on
Speaker 1: Instagram because we had so many people sign up and
Speaker 1: we were a little bit overwhelmed. We're like, oh, like,
Speaker 1: how I don't think we can teach a thousand people
Speaker 1: how to make pasta. So we close it down at
Speaker 1: about a hundred and fifty and about fifty or sixty
Speaker 1: showed up. Uh, and it was awesome. It was so cool.
Speaker 1: Pietro is just a total gem and he makes everything fun.
Speaker 1: And then for me, it's just nice to be on
Speaker 1: there and drink and make some pasta and be able
Speaker 1: to eat when I'm done. Listen that you sold me.
Speaker 1: What is your What is the pasta of choice for you?
Speaker 1: Like if you we I take you to an Italian restaurant,
Speaker 1: we sit down and you say, oh I need this.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, definitely, I love it. It's my mom actually
Speaker 1: makes it homemade and she makes her own sauce and
Speaker 1: she's been doing this for years now. So our family
Speaker 1: is is very Italian. And when my grandma was still
Speaker 1: alive and I was in middle school, elementary school, high school,
Speaker 1: all too think, she used to have my family, my
Speaker 1: mom's sister's family, you know, people like all over the
Speaker 1: place coming to her house every Sunday for dinners and
Speaker 1: we would just hang out, not me but drink and
Speaker 1: you know, kick soccer balls in the backyard and eat
Speaker 1: and be merry. And that was kind of just the
Speaker 1: way that we all connected when we were growing up.
Speaker 1: So Mom kind of carried on the tradition. Is really
Speaker 1: one of the very best cooks that I know. And
Speaker 1: so when she says that she's gonna make nuckie, it's
Speaker 1: like a treat, you know, because they're not hard to make,
Speaker 1: but they take forever. Yeah, that and cat pepe like
Speaker 1: those are my two favorite pastas. And also for about
Speaker 1: six days, I can't run or or job because it
Speaker 1: actually hurts my body, but I do. I it's a
Speaker 1: real treat when I get into it. Yeah, I bet
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, I feel like we're blessed as
Speaker 1: humans that fasta has been invented. You know. Agreed, Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some other things on people's mind outside
Speaker 1: of food. Haircuts are an epidemic right now. We cannot
Speaker 1: get them professionally done. You announced, you announced that you're
Speaker 1: embracing the mullet, that you're growing. What what are we
Speaker 1: gonna do here? Are we gonna cut our own hair?
Speaker 1: Or what is happening? Does your mom? Is is your
Speaker 1: family available to do this for you? Are you are
Speaker 1: you just going head on? Well, honestly, my family is
Speaker 1: available and willing, but I am not. So I am
Speaker 1: letting this sucker grow and I'll probably look like Joe
Speaker 1: Dirt at the end of this, but I do not care.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a better look than letting my
Speaker 1: brother or my dad get behind me and start, you know,
Speaker 1: chopping away with scissors. Well, I I for one, all
Speaker 1: hail Tiger King. I say go for it all the way.
Speaker 1: Party in the front, all the way. Yeah, the business
Speaker 1: in front, you know, party in the back, party in
Speaker 1: the back. Oh that's right. You know what to be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm party in the front and back. I'm just like it.
Speaker 1: Just let it grow. You're just party, party, party, Yeah, party, party, party,
Speaker 1: pretty much all the way. Chest hair too, Oh my gosh, damn.
Speaker 1: I by the way, am I but like, what are
Speaker 1: you doing with your hair? I need to know? Are
Speaker 1: you going for the mullet? Are you? What's what's the deal? Well?
Speaker 1: I got very lucky. I have a wife who is
Speaker 1: good at everything. I thought for a minute she was
Speaker 1: going to sabotage me, and she didn't. She said, I'll
Speaker 1: cut your hair because I really do. I'm blessed with
Speaker 1: a lot of hair, and she was like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: do it for you, and then didn't look at even
Speaker 1: a YouTube video, had never touched the clippers, had never
Speaker 1: touched the scissors. And I kept looking at her all week,
Speaker 1: like you're gonna research a little right, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: do some pre work, and she didn't. And then and
Speaker 1: then again she just kills it everything she does. She
Speaker 1: gave me a great haircut. Wow, that's amazing. I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1: So you're you're like keeping it fresh over there, no
Speaker 1: mullets for you know, I've done zooms and people are like,
Speaker 1: did he get a haircut? Like they think I'm I'm
Speaker 1: endangering their grandma's I'm not in real life. I am.
Speaker 1: I just got lucky and my wife is good at
Speaker 1: everything she does, and she shaved it. At the end
Speaker 1: of it. I was like, is this good? I was.
Speaker 1: I honestly was like, I guess I tip you. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what to do now. Tips are definitely appreciated,
Speaker 1: I think. So I hope you have said in the
Speaker 1: past that you read a book a week. So I'm
Speaker 1: wondering what Quarantine Library has been like. Quarantine Library has
Speaker 1: been amazing. Actually, I'm currently reading this incredible book by
Speaker 1: Chanelle Miller. It's called No My Name. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of it? I'm writing it down though, Okay. So Chanel
Speaker 1: Miller essentially was the woman that was found unconscious behind
Speaker 1: a dumpster and the Stanford swimmer had sexually assaulted her,
Speaker 1: and so she was known as Emily Do throughout this
Speaker 1: whole trial and basically was one of the most famous
Speaker 1: people in America, you know, and Brock was infamous. And
Speaker 1: I remember reading this whole news cycle and then being
Speaker 1: appalled when the judge only sentenced Brock Turner two six
Speaker 1: months in jail was which essentially meant he went to
Speaker 1: three months in jail and not prisoned jail, So County
Speaker 1: jail for misdemeanors. And so Chanelle Miller wrote this incredibly
Speaker 1: beautiful and so impactful victim impact statement. I guess that's
Speaker 1: like it's called an impact statement. And I just thought
Speaker 1: that she was able to put into words what every
Speaker 1: survivor or victim is feeling but can't articulate. And I
Speaker 1: just thought it was like beautiful pros It was just
Speaker 1: so thoughtful, it was real, it was authentic. I loved
Speaker 1: reading that, and so I called up my soccer catch
Speaker 1: from you and the answer and I was like, so,
Speaker 1: what are you reading? And he took me through the
Speaker 1: twelve books that he's reading, but he said, if there's
Speaker 1: one that I think you should read this one. And
Speaker 1: so that was the Chanel Miller book and I started
Speaker 1: reading it and I have not put it down yet. Actually,
Speaker 1: you have to take breaks because sometimes it just makes
Speaker 1: you so emotional. It's like all the things that women
Speaker 1: have to go through put into one book, Like things
Speaker 1: that I will never be able to articulate, things that
Speaker 1: I'll never be able to make anybody else understand. She
Speaker 1: has done it in book form. It's just incredible. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember her statement and being like blown away by
Speaker 1: being able to put that into words. I remember thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, how is she even able to want to
Speaker 1: give this statement, let alone give such an eloquent one
Speaker 1: it was. It was remarkable. So I've definitely been looking
Speaker 1: at the book. I didn't even know she went beyond
Speaker 1: the statement. That's incredible. Yeah, I think it just came
Speaker 1: out at the end of last year. But let me
Speaker 1: know what, you think. It's a hard read because it's
Speaker 1: very emotional, but it's also incredibly powerful. Yeah. Well, while
Speaker 1: talking about writing, we found a blog post from your website,
Speaker 1: Something Back, and I think two thousand fifteen you wrote
Speaker 1: out twenty two facts about you and you were asked
Speaker 1: what your biggest fear is, and you said, do you
Speaker 1: remember what you said? Yeah? Actually a lot of people
Speaker 1: have ever bringing this up two year and now, but
Speaker 1: I said global pandemic. I think I think that's what
Speaker 1: I said. Okay, so now I have to ask you.
Speaker 1: I have to ask you straight on, when do I
Speaker 1: die you? I mean, you're clearly a psychic doom teller.
Speaker 1: This is terrible. I don't know. I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: even tell you. When I was going through college, do
Speaker 1: you remember when this one flu was happening, Yes, two
Speaker 1: thousand nine to two thousand ten, I was horrified that
Speaker 1: I was going to get that. Was so scared, literally
Speaker 1: had so much anxiety during my finals that I think
Speaker 1: I failed almost all of them and had to retake them.
Speaker 1: Like that's how scared I was. That's how big of
Speaker 1: a fear was that. I actually think it prepared me
Speaker 1: for this and I been doing Okay, I feel like
Speaker 1: I've already gone through the range of emotions. Yeah, back
Speaker 1: in two thousand nine. I have prepared myself for this,
Speaker 1: so I'm actually doing, I think, as best as anybody
Speaker 1: can do this situation. But yeah, no, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to take on that question us though, when when you
Speaker 1: die or how? I think I wouldn't ever want to
Speaker 1: be right and I certainly wouldn't want to be wrong either,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean there's no win and that I
Speaker 1: appreciate that, I really I mean, I grew up Jewish,
Speaker 1: so I have a similar thing where I think there's
Speaker 1: a global pandemic at all times, but now that there
Speaker 1: is one, I feel vindicated. Is that is that at all?
Speaker 1: How you feel? Do you feel? Like I told you guys,
Speaker 1: this is what to be scared of. No, but you
Speaker 1: know what, I actually feel a little bit vindicated. And
Speaker 1: I eat vegan and when there was meat shortages, I
Speaker 1: was doing like a little bit of a evil vegan cackle,
Speaker 1: being like, well, now you know what I'll go through.
Speaker 1: You know you you got me. I feel similar and
Speaker 1: I don't need I don't need everything, but I'll eat
Speaker 1: red meat every once in a while, even though I
Speaker 1: took like ten years off too. And it's got me
Speaker 1: questioning it again. You're not wrong. I mean, how did
Speaker 1: this pandemic start? You know? Yeah? Yeah, animals Man more
Speaker 1: with FIFA Women's World Cup champion and NWSL star Megan
Speaker 1: Klingenberg after this right now, Feeding America is working tirelessly
Speaker 1: to ensure our most vulnerable populations, like students who are
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Speaker 1: Now let's get back to Megan. Besides being a defender
Speaker 1: on the Portland Scorns, you are a big basketball fan.
Speaker 1: How much have you missed the playoffs this month? It's
Speaker 1: rough for us NBA heads, Yeah, it is. It's really rough,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I love basketball, but hockey is my true love.
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Penguins, I love them. I watch hockey all
Speaker 1: the time and subscribe just to channels in Portland's just
Speaker 1: so I can get the Pittsburgh Penguins on my TV screen.
Speaker 1: But like all of basketball, all of the Penguins, playoff matches, everything,
Speaker 1: I'm just very sad. And because you know, there's something
Speaker 1: incredibly strong and beautiful about live sports. You know, it
Speaker 1: builds a sense of community with your neighbors. Uh, you
Speaker 1: never know what's going to happen. There's just like so
Speaker 1: much resiliency and hard work and teamwork and all these
Speaker 1: different things that we put so much stock into happening
Speaker 1: all at one time on our TVs. And it's pretty
Speaker 1: cool watch. So I really miss seeing that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: The Bundesliga started up over this past weekend. Did you
Speaker 1: watch that? But but I know what exists I had,
Speaker 1: I was not able to watch it. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are things golf, obviously, UFC, there's things starting to pop up,
Speaker 1: right and I watched the Bundesliga this weekend. It was
Speaker 1: just really nice to see a soccer ball kicked around.
Speaker 1: But it was really weird seeing no fans. It was
Speaker 1: so quiet. It was just so weird. It's amazing how
Speaker 1: much the fans provide in terms of viewing pleasure experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been super strange to see it when we do
Speaker 1: not have Like when there's instances like Korean baseball and
Speaker 1: stuff like, there are things you can actually hear the
Speaker 1: like footsteps and creepy note you know, yelling between the players.
Speaker 1: You're like, this is I don't need to be this close.
Speaker 1: That's true, but there's one part about it I found
Speaker 1: kind of fun and interesting. And since there's no fans,
Speaker 1: you can hear everything that every player is saying. Have
Speaker 1: you noticed that? Yes, I think it's weird. You like it?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's amazing. I think it's amazing. I
Speaker 1: love hearing them trash talks. I love hearing them yell
Speaker 1: at each other, being like can I swear on this podcast?
Speaker 1: Or yes you could swear please perfect They'll be like,
Speaker 1: why did you throw it? There? Just ripping into their
Speaker 1: team race and bed like sucking to me, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's just amazing because I missed that. I missed that.
Speaker 1: I missed that so much. I have noticed that women's
Speaker 1: soccer players are way more chirpy though. I did. I
Speaker 1: when when watching just in general World Cup and stuff,
Speaker 1: It's like, you guys, you guys get on each other
Speaker 1: pretty hard, do you think so? I think so? Yes,
Speaker 1: I do. Actually I remember thinking to myself, like, this
Speaker 1: is all very aggressive in a good way, but still.
Speaker 1: I mean, now I'm more excited for having no fans
Speaker 1: just to hear the ship you guys talk. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely talk a lot of ship. I think that my
Speaker 1: teammates really enjoy having me on their team just so
Speaker 1: they don't have to deal with me being on the
Speaker 1: other team, right right, right, Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: basketball guys like that. To Patrick Beverley's I'm a Clippers guy.
Speaker 1: So Patrick Beverley, I'm like, oh, thank god he's on
Speaker 1: our team, because if not, I would hate his guts. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I have no doubt about it. Like, there's just certain
Speaker 1: people that you don't want to mess with. They're really
Speaker 1: good at what they do. They know if they if
Speaker 1: they get in your head that that gives them an
Speaker 1: advantage to win the game, and they don't care how
Speaker 1: they do it. They'll just do whatever they need to. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Talking about sports, coming back, MLS men implemented a very
Speaker 1: strict new individual practice schedule. We talked to Brian Roe
Speaker 1: last week and there are so many rules and regulations.
Speaker 1: You can't pass or shoot at anyone. It's like it
Speaker 1: sounds like a two one space odyssey more than a sport.
Speaker 1: Are you at all hoping that, you know, the Women's
Speaker 1: Soccer League follows suit in that way? Are you just
Speaker 1: hoping they wait? Honestly, I don't even know what I'm
Speaker 1: hoping for at this point. I don't exactly understand the
Speaker 1: path back to sports until there's robust testing and contact
Speaker 1: tracing and all of these different things. So it's really
Speaker 1: hard for me to think about anything past just you know,
Speaker 1: doing what I need to do to stay fit and
Speaker 1: stay healthy. Um. I know that the Thorns and the
Speaker 1: rest of the NHL has started implementing a lot of
Speaker 1: individual trainings for players that are in market, and I
Speaker 1: think it's really great because it's so hard to try
Speaker 1: and find a good like if you're just at your
Speaker 1: house or you're you live in an apartment in the
Speaker 1: of the city. It's so hard to stay in shape
Speaker 1: and do the workouts and get stronger and stay fast
Speaker 1: and all of these things. So I think in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, it's really amazing and I'm glad they're
Speaker 1: doing it. I know our players go a little bit
Speaker 1: crazy when they don't have the ball at their feature,
Speaker 1: so for their mental sanity, I'm incredibly thankful that this
Speaker 1: is going on. Yeah, it's just like I'm the same
Speaker 1: as you. I'm tepid on everything, and I feel weird
Speaker 1: forcing any athlete that I love just because I need
Speaker 1: it for my own happiness to go out there and
Speaker 1: kick a kick a soccer ball or you know, play
Speaker 1: football just because I want it, when in real life
Speaker 1: there there's no vaccine. So I I'm in the same
Speaker 1: place as you. I'm a huge sports fan who doesn't
Speaker 1: know what to tell you. Yeah, it's just tough because
Speaker 1: people are at the point where they're like, well, you
Speaker 1: probably won't get it, and even if you do, the
Speaker 1: percentage chances of your dying are really low. But that's
Speaker 1: not really what it's about, is that you know, it's
Speaker 1: about keeping other people safe. And even if you do
Speaker 1: get it, this doesn't sound like it's something that's easy
Speaker 1: to go through. That might put you off your training
Speaker 1: and put you off your game for months at a time.
Speaker 1: So It doesn't really feel like a very smart thing
Speaker 1: to do to get exposed to something like that, no
Speaker 1: matter how bad people want sports. Yeah, I wanted to
Speaker 1: get into a little bit of the equal pay dispute.
Speaker 1: It moved along a bit during the pandemic. Obviously, you're
Speaker 1: pushing for women's national team to have equal pay as
Speaker 1: the men's team, which to me seems like a total
Speaker 1: no brainer. Unfortunately, a federal judge rejected the players claims
Speaker 1: last month. But what happens now? Are are you able
Speaker 1: to continue the appeal through this pandemic? Do things keep
Speaker 1: moving forward? Honestly, I do not have the most up
Speaker 1: to date information on this to really talk a lot
Speaker 1: about what will happen in the court case. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can talk about equal pay on a high level and
Speaker 1: things like that. Yeah, I mean explain to people who
Speaker 1: are listening, like where where this whole thing stemmed from.
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's if there's an elevator course on it,
Speaker 1: we I would love to hear it myself. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: I think you know, when we first started talking with
Speaker 1: US Soccer about our lucive bargaining agreement, we really wanted
Speaker 1: to do a very fair revenue split. You know, whatever
Speaker 1: revenue we brought in, we wanted to split it with
Speaker 1: you as soccer and that was a non starter. And
Speaker 1: to me, that seems like the most fair way to
Speaker 1: go about this. And um, I think what people don't
Speaker 1: understand is that on the men's side, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of clubs that they all play for, clubs that,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for us, but fortunately for them, pay them millions
Speaker 1: of dollars a year and so they have this security
Speaker 1: that we do not have when we play club soccer.
Speaker 1: And so to ensure the viability and long term success
Speaker 1: of the women's national team, we knew that we needed
Speaker 1: to have contracts that paid us uh money on a
Speaker 1: salary and we know when we're going to get it,
Speaker 1: so we can have stability to train and peace of mind,
Speaker 1: because without peace of mind on your finances, how can
Speaker 1: you possibly be the very best that you can be
Speaker 1: for your country and for your employers, you know, So
Speaker 1: we had to set up our contracts a bit differently,
Speaker 1: our c b A a a bit differently than the men's
Speaker 1: side did. But I think when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: what really matters is where women and their men, And
Speaker 1: just because where women does not mean that we should
Speaker 1: be earning any less, especially when there's no obvious differences
Speaker 1: in the amount of revenue that we produced for us.
Speaker 1: I agreed. I mean it seems like that's the only
Speaker 1: at least in the last few years, it's the only
Speaker 1: thing I'm following as a as a you know, uh,
Speaker 1: not fully engulfed soccer fan, but I mean, like I
Speaker 1: get engulfed in in the Women's World Cup and national teams,
Speaker 1: like those are the things that bring in the mainstream press. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: And to me, this isn't actually about equal pay. It's
Speaker 1: more about equal opportunity. And I think no matter your
Speaker 1: gender or religion, or color, or sexual orientation or any
Speaker 1: of the things that make you other in our society,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't hold you back from the same opportunity as
Speaker 1: a man, or a white person or a straight person
Speaker 1: or whomever. Right, So, to me, this is more about
Speaker 1: ensuring that everybody that comes after us on the women's
Speaker 1: fast team has that same opportunity as a man does.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about equal investment in the national team.
Speaker 1: We're talking about equal pay, We're talking about equal travel,
Speaker 1: we're talking about equal marketing, We're talking about equal opportunity
Speaker 1: to make a good life for ourselves through the game,
Speaker 1: especially with these postponements. I mean, it's a bigger time
Speaker 1: than ever to make sure that people are taken care
Speaker 1: of in the same way that the superstars are. You
Speaker 1: know that quote unquote superstars are that we pay in
Speaker 1: these million dollar ways. So I I'm I don't know
Speaker 1: who wouldn't be with you, So I'm I'm giving you
Speaker 1: encouragement as if you need it. It's the common sense
Speaker 1: aspect to it. Well, thank you. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people aren't with us, and that's what's hard, But
Speaker 1: I know that there are so many that are. I
Speaker 1: think that a lot of times the negative voices sometimes
Speaker 1: drown out the positive ones. So you know, we always
Speaker 1: need those positive backers because when we hear from people
Speaker 1: like you and from other people that are being affected
Speaker 1: by this, then we want to keep going. Sure, last year,
Speaker 1: you launched a streetwear and lifestyle brand, reinc alongside some
Speaker 1: of your teammates and uh from the Unforgettable World Cup team.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about why you decided to
Speaker 1: jump into fashion. Actually, there's a lot of reasons why
Speaker 1: we decided to start there. You know, our mission is
Speaker 1: to reinvent the status quo, champion equity, creativity. And the
Speaker 1: reason we wanted to start in fashion and especially street
Speaker 1: work is because one, especially for me, there's not a
Speaker 1: lot out there, because if I wanted to try and
Speaker 1: wear streetwear, I couldn't because it never fits. So we
Speaker 1: thought this is a culture and an industry right for change.
Speaker 1: And also we felt like, hey, this is something that
Speaker 1: we could easily you know, talk about, and it's also
Speaker 1: something that we can easily show and market on our
Speaker 1: instagrams on the internet and connect with people. And so
Speaker 1: that's why we started there, and that's why we wanted
Speaker 1: to at least go into fashion first. But we're certainly
Speaker 1: not just a fashion company. Well, it's awesome. I checked
Speaker 1: out the black and white collection. You guys are donating
Speaker 1: a portion of proceeds to healthcare workers affected by the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I think it's if anything, I would love for people
Speaker 1: who are listening to check it out. It's it looks awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: please do. Like, we love having people check out the brand,
Speaker 1: even if they don't decide to buy something. It's not
Speaker 1: about that for us. We want people to be able
Speaker 1: to commune and not just consume that's kind of where
Speaker 1: we talk about when we talk about our community. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of community, I like to end everything with something
Speaker 1: positive and then some dumb suggestions. The positive part I
Speaker 1: want to know, is there anything you think that we've
Speaker 1: taken on during this time in the pandemic that you
Speaker 1: hope we keep when everything is clear and we have
Speaker 1: a vaccine, etcetera. Are there any you know, uh, activities
Speaker 1: anyway we're living now, something you think should live on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely a lot of things. The one positive I hope
Speaker 1: is that we can see how much of an impact
Speaker 1: we have on this planet. When we go dark, the
Speaker 1: animals come back out. They start doing things that they
Speaker 1: haven't been doing in years. The air is cleaner, the
Speaker 1: water is cleaner, the climate is better, there's less d
Speaker 1: O two in the air. I hope that we can
Speaker 1: continue on that path. I as with you. I I
Speaker 1: feel like I saw a deer walking down my street
Speaker 1: the other day and I was like, see, he was
Speaker 1: nervous to be down here. Now he's just hanging out
Speaker 1: with us, and I live in Los Angeles. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's wild. I felt like snow white. All right. So lastly,
Speaker 1: some suggestions. These are things that that I want you
Speaker 1: to get into during the pandemic. You don't have to,
Speaker 1: you're not obligated to. You're clearly busy making pasta and
Speaker 1: looking at old childhood trophies. But but here are some
Speaker 1: suggestions of just some things you might get into. You
Speaker 1: ready for these, I'm ready? Okay. You have your own
Speaker 1: streetwear company, so I thought maybe you'd be into shopping
Speaker 1: um some of the big labels from the comfort of
Speaker 1: your home. Do you ever visit grailed dot com? Okay,
Speaker 1: not a sponsor, but I pay them enough to maybe
Speaker 1: be a sponsor of their's. It is a consignment website
Speaker 1: where people put their clothing up for sales, sometimes dead stocks,
Speaker 1: sometimes vintage and worn. But every company's represented. Supreme Blonciaga,
Speaker 1: off white Stone Island, tons of sneakers, you know, every
Speaker 1: Jordan's up there. It feels very much like a curated eBay.
Speaker 1: They're set prices, you can make offers. I've bought a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff off it had great experiences. It's like
Speaker 1: a thrift shop for like hype beast stuff, and it
Speaker 1: also has an app that's awesome. Yeah, you gonna check
Speaker 1: that out. That was a good suggestion. Keep on comment.
Speaker 1: There you go, graild Okay. Second one, an industry that's
Speaker 1: been totally destroyed by the pandemic is the musical right,
Speaker 1: all local shows canceled, Broadway closed, no date for a return,
Speaker 1: by the way, in this billion dollar business of musicals
Speaker 1: and people who love theater have nowhere to go. So
Speaker 1: not a sponsor of the podcast again, but I will
Speaker 1: take their money if they want. It is Broadway, h
Speaker 1: D Do you know anything about it? No, but it
Speaker 1: sounds awesome. You don't even need to explain it. Actually,
Speaker 1: as soon as you said Broadway and they need help,
Speaker 1: I'm in all right. Seven day free trial, normally eight
Speaker 1: a month. You can watch tons of musicals online like
Speaker 1: Kinky Boots, Lay, Miss Bette Midler and Gypsy Billy Elliott's online.
Speaker 1: They have plays like Death of a Salesman, Macbeth or
Speaker 1: al Pacino and solomn A. There's so many things. If
Speaker 1: you have a an itch, this is the way to
Speaker 1: scratch it. For Broadway. Oh, I'm in cool? You have
Speaker 1: one more? Yeah, one more. I'm a podcast for sports,
Speaker 1: so obviously great crossover with Broadway. Last one, I think
Speaker 1: we should all be taking advantage of the skills we've
Speaker 1: learned here in quarantine make the most of our time,
Speaker 1: so I think you should capitalize on the hard work
Speaker 1: you've been doing. Clearly, it's a bad time to open
Speaker 1: a restaurant. You might have to sit on this for
Speaker 1: a minute, or just do it strictly delivery. But I
Speaker 1: want you to open a pasta place. Okay, it's just you,
Speaker 1: just me, But you can't. Maybe my mom open it
Speaker 1: and then I can help her. Okay, I listen. This
Speaker 1: is how I see it. You're making pasta for customers.
Speaker 1: Your mom can help customers all day. You're wearing ree ink.
Speaker 1: So I'm always thinking about, you know, branding. The whole
Speaker 1: place is soccer them. Do you have all your childhood
Speaker 1: trophies there? The things from your your childhood room, the
Speaker 1: biggest moments on the screens. You can do big parties
Speaker 1: for Thorn's games. And I have two possible names for
Speaker 1: this restaurant. Do you want to hear them? Of course
Speaker 1: they do, all right. I have rav Goalie instead of Ravioli.
Speaker 1: It's not great. Keep My second one is red sauce card. Okay,
Speaker 1: that one's kind of funny. I like that, all right,
Speaker 1: So at least I get a kind of funny. I
Speaker 1: think the second one is better. Alright, Rabbi, goalie might
Speaker 1: not be as good as red sauce card. You're right,
Speaker 1: I will. I will own up to that. Megan. I
Speaker 1: appreciate everything you're doing. Thank you for talking to us,
Speaker 1: and and stay safe and also please continue to take
Speaker 1: it to the morons about equal pay and equal opportunity.
Speaker 1: It is just so dumb that anyone wouldn't think that's
Speaker 1: just a right. Yeah. No, I appreciate that, and thanks
Speaker 1: for having me on. It's been a blast. The No
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