WEBVTT - Meghan Klingenberg 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.760 Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:14.319 Heart Radio Entree Fork Media. My name is Jensen Carpet, 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.720 and I'm a sports fan and I've been wondering did 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.920 Joe Flacco sign a one year deal with the Jets 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.880 hoping there's no NFL season. It's the only thing that 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:23.799 makes sense to me. Then he could just be like, 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:25.840 oh man, what a bummer. I guess I'm off to 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.760 somewhere else that isn't the Jets. He's gonna be watching 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.320 these Fauci press conferences holding a rosary and sweating on 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.320 the edge of his seat. And as soon as training 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.880 camps are announced, I'm betting Flacco starts faking a cough. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.040 I'm onto you, dude. I'm still talking athletes, though, in 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.560 sports industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine, hoping 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.640 to figure out if THEYM is competing as much as 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:52.720 I missed watching it. This is the No Sports Report. Now. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.440 I'm known for my good ideas. And here's another one. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.120 If you were on the two thousand fifteen FIFA Women's 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.880 World Cup team, you should get free drink wherever you go. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.560 From the t g I Fridays in Times Square to 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.640 Mickey's in All Cash Bar and Orange, California. You just 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.760 never pay for a thing. Actually, no matter where you go, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:11.960 it could be a build to bear. You want to drink, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.200 you get one brought to you. And that's because you're 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.080 part of one of the most glorious winds our country 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.600 has ever seen. So bottoms up, and we're starting with 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.440 Megan Clickenberg. The Defender was a vital part of the 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.679 iconic squad and now is a proud member of the 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.679 Portland Thorns in the National Women's Soccer League. And now 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.280 she's dipping her toe into fashion alongside her World Cup 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.600 teammates and fellow Free drinkers Megan Rappino, Tobin Heath and 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:37.839 Kristin Press. They've launched reinc, a gender neutral lifestyle brand 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.399 that offers a distinct look for every unique body and 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.679 challenges the status quo. We talked about their newest collection, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.400 her Passion for Pasta, and the novel Idea of gender Equality. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.520 It's a brand new episode of The No Sports Report, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:05.800 all from Meghan Klingenberg to accept Press one. Megan, I 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.800 wanted to ask you first off, where you were quarantining 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.960 location wise, and then I know this is a very 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.840 heavy question, one that deserves probably paragraphs upon paragraphs. But 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.360 but how has it been going for you? Yeah, thank 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.480 you for asking. I appreciate that. Um I'm doing okay, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.799 I think about as best you can do under these circumstances. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.799 And I'm actually in Pittsburgh with my family. Just a 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.920 quick story. When I was growing up, my parents, they 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.560 always had this goal of wanting to get a bit 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.000 of property and build a house on it. My mom 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.720 has always wanted to build her own house from scratch 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.640 with her architects or whatever. And so they finally did it. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.560 They got some property, and you know, I as a kid, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:46.920 when I was in high school, it was a bit 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.000 annoying because we had all of this property and not 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.919 very many people around. And now I've never been more 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.800 thankful for having a bit of land to to just 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.400 you know, run around and be outside and I'll have 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.920 to worry about seeing other people. It's just funny how 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.480 one thing doesn't feel like a blessing and then later 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.200 in life really does. Yeah. I mean, are you sleeping 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.360 in your childhood bedroom? Yeah? I yam. Actually it's hilarious. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.000 Basic are there like old like a y s oh 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.240 soccer trophies and stuff so many and there's like karate trophies, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:26.280 and it's also kind of become everybody's spare hearts room, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.440 you know. There there's old jerseys of mine, there's my 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.520 brother's TV from college. There's just like all kinds of 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.280 stuff in there, plus me, plus all the things that 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.120 my mom deck greate in my room with when I 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:44.160 was like fourteen. So it feels like the funniest throw back. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.080 Oh yeah, yeah, I was lucky my parents when I 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:48.760 went off to college left my room like it was 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.440 a museum shrine. Like I feel like they laminated stuff 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.680 so that nothing got damaged. You know that's funny. Yeah, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.080 with my mom, she basically told my dad, over her 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.360 dead body, he would turn it into an exercise or room. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.320 She basically didn't change anything, kept my childhood posters up 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.320 to kept my bed in there, and then she said 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.200 for the first few months she would come in and 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.360 just cry, oh poor mom, it's like a museum. It 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.240 is if if they don't live there anymore. But if 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.000 they did, I swear to God, I would be forty 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.880 years old right now and she would still have my 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.480 stuff there. It says a lot about me and her, 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.080 But yes, a completely different situation. At least they've kept 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.440 some of your trophies and stuff. Yeah, I mean, I 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.000 think it's funny. The trophies were actually like way cooler 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.440 than the ones that I get. Now. Let you get 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.560 just a medal now and then the team gets a trophy. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.400 But when you were on a team as a kid, 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.919 or you did Grotty or whatever, all the things that 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.640 I did, you would get like real big trophies just 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.000 for you. So now I'm just like stuck with medals 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.160 and who wants to medal? You know, well, I mean 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.240 I would want to medal, but you do have you 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.320 have like a photo of you holding the trophy rather 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:57.920 than the trophy at your house, is what you're kind 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.960 of alluding to. But yes, yeah, yeah, but it's kind 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.680 of nice like to have a trophy or a cup 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.479 or whatever, especially when you're celebrating, because you can always 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.120 pour your beer in the cup and then you know, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.760 celebrate with your teammates. I feel like the nwell just 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.640 really missed out on that part because they have a 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.320 trophy that's just like in the shape of a soccer player, 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.960 you know, so you can't really do much with it 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.200 except hold it. Yeah, well, I say, let's go back 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.200 to the individual trophies and orange slices. I would be 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.000 fine with both of those for soccer. Oh, I don't 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.840 know why I can't get my own prepackaged little baggy 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.680 at halftime, you know, like a beautiful silver platter. Megan 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:42.599 is calling for her orange slices again exactly, and and 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.159 a sip of gatorade, please bring it for the lady. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.920 Are you able to decipher what day it is when 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.960 you wake up? Do you have any sort of ability 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:54.160 to calendar out what's happening? Actually no, not not even 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.880 a little bit. The only way that I know approximately 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.120 which day it is is I've been doing don't at 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.919 Sunday's and so it's kind of like an countdown, like 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.360 today is Donut Sunday plus one if you if you 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.680 catch my drift, like you know, because we're out one 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.520 day from Dona Sunday and then you know Friday is 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.320 Donut Sunday Monut two. So that's that's pretty much how 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:20.000 I've been keeping track of it. And that's pretty much 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.200 the only day that I am officially aware of on 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.120 the day of the event, right, And what is your 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.760 what is your donut of choice. Oh wow, I think 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.480 it depends on the mood when I wake up. But 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.000 they have this place in Portland's and it's called Dough Donut, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.680 so it's all vegan don't let go stoppy though it's 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.479 by far the best don't a place in Portland, and 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.760 I'm sure people will be screaming about that, but they'll say, no, no, 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.280 it's definitely not gonna do. It's dough, I'm telling you. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.000 And they have these amazing flavors, but I always get 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.640 usually two and a coffee, and I always get to 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.520 Portland's fog plus like another flavor that I just want 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.520 to try. But the Portland Bog is like an earl 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.000 gray glaze with a coconut whipped cream on top. Oh man, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.440 it's good. I'm dying already, and I'm happy you got 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.720 into food. Let's get into pasta class. You held a 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.520 tutorial on zoom instructing people on how to make pasta. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.240 Did you know this? And also how is it possible 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:23.680 that you eat carbs? Okay? Back in upject, I was 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:28.119 just a conduit to bring these people to Pietro, who 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:32.800 is the official pasta maestro. My mom and I actually 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.960 took a trip last November. We went to a bunch 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.160 of places, but we end up going to Milan, and 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.360 Mom booked one part of the trip, only one part right, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.400 but it ended up being our favorite part. It was 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.520 this pasta making class of this guy to hold his 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.720 named Pietro and his mom came when we made tire 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.920 mamsoon we made pasta, when we made friends and we 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.840 had an absolute last and so I thought, you know, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.800 why not do that virtually and bring people together and 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.520 connect with them, because I think a lot of people 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.360 are struggling being alone right now. So it was just 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.560 nice to eat and gather and have some wine and 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.160 be merry and connect over something that's really fun to do. Yeah, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.240 and and and a bunch of people showed up to 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.320 learn how to make pasta. Did you know it before 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:16.960 this class you took? Like, I don't even think I 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.720 would know what does I barely know how to cook pasta? Well, 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.600 that's why we have pasta. Pietro. He sends out an 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.160 ingredient list and actually we have to close down the 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.480 class about an hour after I posted about it on 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.680 Instagram because we had so many people sign up and 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:32.760 we were a little bit overwhelmed. We're like, oh, like, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.199 how I don't think we can teach a thousand people 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.400 how to make pasta. So we close it down at 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.240 about a hundred and fifty and about fifty or sixty 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.880 showed up. Uh, and it was awesome. It was so cool. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.720 Pietro is just a total gem and he makes everything fun. 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.480 And then for me, it's just nice to be on 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.559 there and drink and make some pasta and be able 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.160 to eat when I'm done. Listen that you sold me. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.559 What is your What is the pasta of choice for you? 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.800 Like if you we I take you to an Italian restaurant, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.800 we sit down and you say, oh I need this. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:12.160 Oh wow, definitely, I love it. It's my mom actually 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.840 makes it homemade and she makes her own sauce and 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.000 she's been doing this for years now. So our family 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.000 is is very Italian. And when my grandma was still 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.400 alive and I was in middle school, elementary school, high school, 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.560 all too think, she used to have my family, my 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.120 mom's sister's family, you know, people like all over the 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.760 place coming to her house every Sunday for dinners and 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.960 we would just hang out, not me but drink and 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.360 you know, kick soccer balls in the backyard and eat 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.719 and be merry. And that was kind of just the 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.280 way that we all connected when we were growing up. 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.520 So Mom kind of carried on the tradition. Is really 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.679 one of the very best cooks that I know. And 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.640 so when she says that she's gonna make nuckie, it's 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.959 like a treat, you know, because they're not hard to make, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:04.080 but they take forever. Yeah, that and cat pepe like 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.839 those are my two favorite pastas. And also for about 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.000 six days, I can't run or or job because it 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.880 actually hurts my body, but I do. I it's a 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.120 real treat when I get into it. Yeah, I bet 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.880 it is. I mean, I feel like we're blessed as 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.120 humans that fasta has been invented. You know. Agreed, Well, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.480 let's talk about some other things on people's mind outside 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.520 of food. Haircuts are an epidemic right now. We cannot 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.520 get them professionally done. You announced, you announced that you're 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.640 embracing the mullet, that you're growing. What what are we 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.640 gonna do here? Are we gonna cut our own hair? 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.960 Or what is happening? Does your mom? Is is your 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.319 family available to do this for you? Are you are 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.280 you just going head on? Well, honestly, my family is 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:50.160 available and willing, but I am not. So I am 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.760 letting this sucker grow and I'll probably look like Joe 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.480 Dirt at the end of this, but I do not care. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.480 I feel like that's a better look than letting my 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.920 brother or my dad get behind me and start, you know, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.240 chopping away with scissors. Well, I I for one, all 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.560 hail Tiger King. I say go for it all the way. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:12.680 Party in the front, all the way. Yeah, the business 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.719 in front, you know, party in the back, party in 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.920 the back. Oh that's right. You know what to be honest, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.679 I'm party in the front and back. I'm just like it. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.199 Just let it grow. You're just party, party, party, Yeah, party, party, party, 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.120 pretty much all the way. Chest hair too, Oh my gosh, damn. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.079 I by the way, am I but like, what are 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.800 you doing with your hair? I need to know? Are 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.920 you going for the mullet? Are you? What's what's the deal? Well? 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.839 I got very lucky. I have a wife who is 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.240 good at everything. I thought for a minute she was 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.280 going to sabotage me, and she didn't. She said, I'll 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.760 cut your hair because I really do. I'm blessed with 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.560 a lot of hair, and she was like, yeah, I'll 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.280 do it for you, and then didn't look at even 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.120 a YouTube video, had never touched the clippers, had never 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:52.920 touched the scissors. And I kept looking at her all week, 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.520 like you're gonna research a little right, like you're gonna 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.680 do some pre work, and she didn't. And then and 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.280 then again she just kills it everything she does. She 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:07.040 gave me a great haircut. Wow, that's amazing. I'm very impressed. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.320 So you're you're like keeping it fresh over there, no 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.960 mullets for you know, I've done zooms and people are like, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.840 did he get a haircut? Like they think I'm I'm 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.880 endangering their grandma's I'm not in real life. I am. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:19.960 I just got lucky and my wife is good at 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.400 everything she does, and she shaved it. At the end 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.000 of it. I was like, is this good? I was. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.199 I honestly was like, I guess I tip you. I 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.240 don't even know what to do now. Tips are definitely appreciated, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.960 I think. So I hope you have said in the 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.360 past that you read a book a week. So I'm 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.040 wondering what Quarantine Library has been like. Quarantine Library has 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:43.520 been amazing. Actually, I'm currently reading this incredible book by 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.960 Chanelle Miller. It's called No My Name. Have you heard 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.680 of it? I'm writing it down though, Okay. So Chanel 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:55.200 Miller essentially was the woman that was found unconscious behind 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.280 a dumpster and the Stanford swimmer had sexually assaulted her, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.200 and so she was known as Emily Do throughout this 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:07.199 whole trial and basically was one of the most famous 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.920 people in America, you know, and Brock was infamous. And 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.480 I remember reading this whole news cycle and then being 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.080 appalled when the judge only sentenced Brock Turner two six 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.640 months in jail was which essentially meant he went to 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.720 three months in jail and not prisoned jail, So County 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:32.480 jail for misdemeanors. And so Chanelle Miller wrote this incredibly 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:38.559 beautiful and so impactful victim impact statement. I guess that's 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.880 like it's called an impact statement. And I just thought 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.840 that she was able to put into words what every 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:51.920 survivor or victim is feeling but can't articulate. And I 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.160 just thought it was like beautiful pros It was just 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.600 so thoughtful, it was real, it was authentic. I loved 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.480 reading that, and so I called up my soccer catch 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.240 from you and the answer and I was like, so, 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:03.680 what are you reading? And he took me through the 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.400 twelve books that he's reading, but he said, if there's 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.800 one that I think you should read this one. And 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.280 so that was the Chanel Miller book and I started 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.640 reading it and I have not put it down yet. Actually, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.360 you have to take breaks because sometimes it just makes 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:22.160 you so emotional. It's like all the things that women 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.560 have to go through put into one book, Like things 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.640 that I will never be able to articulate, things that 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.920 I'll never be able to make anybody else understand. She 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.040 has done it in book form. It's just incredible. Yeah. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.840 I remember her statement and being like blown away by 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.000 being able to put that into words. I remember thinking 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.880 to myself, how is she even able to want to 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.160 give this statement, let alone give such an eloquent one 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.560 it was. It was remarkable. So I've definitely been looking 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.480 at the book. I didn't even know she went beyond 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.200 the statement. That's incredible. Yeah, I think it just came 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.400 out at the end of last year. But let me 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.920 know what, you think. It's a hard read because it's 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:03.400 very emotional, but it's also incredibly powerful. Yeah. Well, while 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.480 talking about writing, we found a blog post from your website, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.200 Something Back, and I think two thousand fifteen you wrote 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.720 out twenty two facts about you and you were asked 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.920 what your biggest fear is, and you said, do you 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.480 remember what you said? Yeah? Actually a lot of people 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.160 have ever bringing this up two year and now, but 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.320 I said global pandemic. I think I think that's what 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.640 I said. Okay, so now I have to ask you. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.400 I have to ask you straight on, when do I 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.080 die you? I mean, you're clearly a psychic doom teller. 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:34.560 This is terrible. I don't know. I mean, I can't 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.200 even tell you. When I was going through college, do 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.320 you remember when this one flu was happening, Yes, two 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.520 thousand nine to two thousand ten, I was horrified that 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.480 I was going to get that. Was so scared, literally 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.640 had so much anxiety during my finals that I think 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.080 I failed almost all of them and had to retake them. 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:55.640 Like that's how scared I was. That's how big of 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.400 a fear was that. I actually think it prepared me 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.400 for this and I been doing Okay, I feel like 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.040 I've already gone through the range of emotions. Yeah, back 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.440 in two thousand nine. I have prepared myself for this, 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.920 so I'm actually doing, I think, as best as anybody 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.200 can do this situation. But yeah, no, I'm not going 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.880 to take on that question us though, when when you 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.040 die or how? I think I wouldn't ever want to 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.560 be right and I certainly wouldn't want to be wrong either, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.160 you know. I mean there's no win and that I 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.520 appreciate that, I really I mean, I grew up Jewish, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:25.960 so I have a similar thing where I think there's 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:27.880 a global pandemic at all times, but now that there 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.480 is one, I feel vindicated. Is that is that at all? 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.200 How you feel? Do you feel? Like I told you guys, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.960 this is what to be scared of. No, but you 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.560 know what, I actually feel a little bit vindicated. And 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.840 I eat vegan and when there was meat shortages, I 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.200 was doing like a little bit of a evil vegan cackle, 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.080 being like, well, now you know what I'll go through. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.360 You know you you got me. I feel similar and 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.440 I don't need I don't need everything, but I'll eat 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.280 red meat every once in a while, even though I 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.280 took like ten years off too. And it's got me 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.960 questioning it again. You're not wrong. I mean, how did 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.960 this pandemic start? You know? Yeah? Yeah, animals Man more 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.359 with FIFA Women's World Cup champion and NWSL star Megan 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:17.280 Klingenberg after this right now, Feeding America is working tirelessly 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.240 to ensure our most vulnerable populations, like students who are 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.640 out of school, the elderly individuals whose jobs are impacted, 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.480 and low income families continue to have access to food 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.000 and other needed resources during the COVID nineteen pandemic. The 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.000 Feeding America Food Bank Network is committed to serving communities 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.800 and people facing hunger in America, and their greatest need 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.240 is donations and support of local food banks. This podcast 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.520 is committed to donating a portion of the proceeds from 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.800 the show to Feeding America, and we hope that you 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.119 can join us in this effort to find out how 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.560 you can help Feeding America dot org backslash COVID nineteen. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.479 Now let's get back to Megan. Besides being a defender 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.200 on the Portland Scorns, you are a big basketball fan. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.399 How much have you missed the playoffs this month? It's 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.960 rough for us NBA heads, Yeah, it is. It's really rough, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.960 and honestly, I love basketball, but hockey is my true love. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:18.640 The Pittsburgh Penguins, I love them. I watch hockey all 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.399 the time and subscribe just to channels in Portland's just 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.880 so I can get the Pittsburgh Penguins on my TV screen. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.760 But like all of basketball, all of the Penguins, playoff matches, everything, 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:35.119 I'm just very sad. And because you know, there's something 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:41.960 incredibly strong and beautiful about live sports. You know, it 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.159 builds a sense of community with your neighbors. Uh, you 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.760 never know what's going to happen. There's just like so 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.439 much resiliency and hard work and teamwork and all these 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.119 different things that we put so much stock into happening 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.399 all at one time on our TVs. And it's pretty 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.640 cool watch. So I really miss seeing that kind of thing. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.720 The Bundesliga started up over this past weekend. Did you 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.440 watch that? But but I know what exists I had, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:07.800 I was not able to watch it. I mean, there 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.239 are things golf, obviously, UFC, there's things starting to pop up, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.960 right and I watched the Bundesliga this weekend. It was 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.480 just really nice to see a soccer ball kicked around. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:21.239 But it was really weird seeing no fans. It was 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.080 so quiet. It was just so weird. It's amazing how 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.440 much the fans provide in terms of viewing pleasure experience. Yeah, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.160 it's been super strange to see it when we do 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.080 not have Like when there's instances like Korean baseball and 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.600 stuff like, there are things you can actually hear the 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.000 like footsteps and creepy note you know, yelling between the players. 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.199 You're like, this is I don't need to be this close. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.520 That's true, but there's one part about it I found 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.720 kind of fun and interesting. And since there's no fans, 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.520 you can hear everything that every player is saying. Have 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.960 you noticed that? Yes, I think it's weird. You like it? 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:02.240 Oh my gosh, it's amazing. I think it's amazing. I 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.760 love hearing them trash talks. I love hearing them yell 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.480 at each other, being like can I swear on this podcast? 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.280 Or yes you could swear please perfect They'll be like, 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.720 why did you throw it? There? Just ripping into their 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.320 team race and bed like sucking to me, you know. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:23.119 And it's just amazing because I missed that. I missed that. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.119 I missed that so much. I have noticed that women's 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.919 soccer players are way more chirpy though. I did. I 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.879 when when watching just in general World Cup and stuff, 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:33.840 It's like, you guys, you guys get on each other 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:38.440 pretty hard, do you think so? I think so? Yes, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.719 I do. Actually I remember thinking to myself, like, this 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.200 is all very aggressive in a good way, but still. 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.240 I mean, now I'm more excited for having no fans 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.200 just to hear the ship you guys talk. Yeah, I 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.800 definitely talk a lot of ship. I think that my 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.880 teammates really enjoy having me on their team just so 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.159 they don't have to deal with me being on the 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.960 other team, right right, right, Yeah, there's a lot of 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:02.560 basketball guys like that. To Patrick Beverley's I'm a Clippers guy. 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.320 So Patrick Beverley, I'm like, oh, thank god he's on 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:08.680