Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, the show that's
Speaker 1: using a drone to spy on Sam Muis's house, hoping
Speaker 1: to steal secrets on how to make a great podcast.
Speaker 1: It's Game Day, Baybay US soccer versus Zambia three pm
Speaker 1: Eastern this afternoon, and I will be glued to my
Speaker 1: TV because you know, I love the players and you
Speaker 1: love the game.
Speaker 2: Lf G.
Speaker 1: I am so pumped and also very nervous, and my
Speaker 1: sphincter will be engaged all day. On today's show, it's
Speaker 1: our first group chat. Comedians Aaron Foley and Morgan Murphy
Speaker 1: are going to join the show for what I predict
Speaker 1: will be absolute chaos and guaranteed laughs. I think Thursday
Speaker 1: group chats are going to be a little unhinged, so
Speaker 1: hang on to your butts. But first, here's what you
Speaker 1: need to know today, and we got a lot of
Speaker 1: news today, y'all. Tennis player Coco Goff was selected to
Speaker 1: serve as the female flag bear for Team USA during
Speaker 1: this Friday's opening ceremony. She'll join four time NBA champ
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Both of them were selected through a vote
Speaker 1: from their US teammates.
Speaker 2: Bit of context here.
Speaker 1: Three years ago, Goff, then just seventeen years old, was
Speaker 1: slated to make her Olympic debut in Tokyo, but she
Speaker 1: was forced to miss the Games after testing positive for COVID.
Speaker 1: Since then, she clinched her first major title, winning the
Speaker 1: US Open last year. The Olympic tennis competition starts on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and Goff, currently number two in the world, will compete
Speaker 1: in both singles and doubles.
Speaker 2: It's official.
Speaker 1: The first sky high scandal of the Paris Olympics is here,
Speaker 1: and it involves the nice old folks from Canada A.
Speaker 1: The Canadian Olympic Committee has sent home an assistant women's
Speaker 1: soccer coach and analyst after they were accused of attempting
Speaker 1: to belichick the games. That's right, spy in an opponent's
Speaker 1: training session New Zealand, specifically ahead of the Canada New
Speaker 1: Zealand matchup today. They kick off the Olympic Soccer tournament
Speaker 1: at eleven am Eastern so. In a statement, Team Canada
Speaker 1: confirmed that the analyst, Joseph Lombardi, had used a drone
Speaker 1: to quote record the New Zealand women's football team during practice.
Speaker 2: But that's not all.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, the Canadian Olympic Committee announced that there was
Speaker 1: an earlier drone incident, also involving Team New Zealand on
Speaker 1: July nineteenth. Because of heightened security around the Olympics, there
Speaker 1: have been strict rules against the use of drones around
Speaker 1: Olympic sites, unrelated to the separate ethics issue of spying
Speaker 1: on your opponent. So as a results of the scandal,
Speaker 1: Canadian head coach Bev Priestman said she will remove herself
Speaker 1: from overseeing the team's opening game, and assistant Andy Spence
Speaker 1: will service head coach in her place. Asked about the incident,
Speaker 1: Priestsman said into press conference that she's quote ultimately responsible
Speaker 1: for conduct in our program, but she didn't directly answer
Speaker 1: a question about whether she knew about the drones. This
Speaker 1: story is still unfolding, with the IOC Soccer Federation, FIFA,
Speaker 1: French government, everybody still weighing in, so we'll make sure
Speaker 1: we keep you updated as new details emerge. That's not
Speaker 1: the only bad news for Team New Zealand, though women's
Speaker 1: soccer captain Ali Riley, who plays for A in the NWSL,
Speaker 1: has had to withdraw from the Olympic tournament due to
Speaker 1: medical reasons. The Paris Games were supposed to have been
Speaker 1: the thirty six year old's fifth Olympic appearance. In an
Speaker 1: Instagram post, Riley said she's been struggling with a nerve
Speaker 1: issue for the last seven months and because the injuries
Speaker 1: so unpredictable quote, my coach decided it would be best
Speaker 1: for the team to withdraw me completely from the squad.
Speaker 1: Riley's been replaced on New Zealand's roster by Mikayla Foster.
Speaker 1: We're super bummed for Ali Get Well Quick. You may
Speaker 1: remember how after just one episode of the show, a
Speaker 1: listener called us out for not including enough horseback riding coverage.
Speaker 2: Well, well, well look who was.
Speaker 1: A little too quick to judge this podcast by its
Speaker 1: cover art. That's because the sport of equestrian is also
Speaker 1: being rocked by its own scandal ahead of the Olympic
Speaker 1: opening ceremony, and we are here to cover it with
Speaker 1: the best of them. Unfortunately, it's not a very good story.
Speaker 1: Great Britain's Charlotte Dujardin, a six time Olympic medalist and
Speaker 1: one of the best known dressage riders in the world,
Speaker 1: has withdrawn from the Games after video footage emergion showing
Speaker 1: her repeatedly whipping a horse during a training session. In
Speaker 1: her statement withdrawing from Paris, the thirty nine year old
Speaker 1: Dujardin said the video showed her making a quote error
Speaker 1: of judgment and that my video quote does not reflect
Speaker 1: how I train my horses or coach my pupils.
Speaker 2: Yikes.
Speaker 1: Also, by the way, perhaps the sport of horse racing,
Speaker 1: which features many forms of cruelty beyond just whipping the horses,
Speaker 1: should take a note and start to treat the animals better,
Speaker 1: or maybe just be canceled altogether. Because horse racing the
Speaker 1: roster for the inaugural Unrivaled season, the three x three
Speaker 1: basketball league founded by Brianna Stewart and the FISA Collier
Speaker 1: continues to grow and the latest player to join up
Speaker 1: is from my Chicago Sky.
Speaker 2: It's the double Double.
Speaker 3: Queen.
Speaker 1: Forward Angel Reese will be part of Unrivaled. She joined
Speaker 1: Stuart and Collier plus Chelsea Gray, Arique A Gunbawallee, Jewel
Speaker 1: Lloyd Kelsey Plum, Ryan Howard, Khalia Copper and Jackie Young
Speaker 1: when the league tips off in January twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Can't wait, Gotta.
Speaker 1: Take a break when we come back, Let's get weird.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the very first edition of Group Chat, where
Speaker 1: we take the tea from the text all the way
Speaker 1: to the airwaves.
Speaker 2: And I've got two ladies.
Speaker 1: That are hopefully going to be as unhinged and hilarious
Speaker 1: as I predict. Aaron Foley and Morgan Murphy, two comedians.
Speaker 1: Morgan's a stand up comedian, writer and actress, one of
Speaker 1: the original writers on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a
Speaker 1: writer on Two Broke Girls, and a diehard sports fan.
Speaker 1: Aaron Foley is a comedy writer and season stand up
Speaker 1: She wrote on two seasons of That ninety Show on
Speaker 1: Netflix and the critical acclaimed sitcom One Day to Time.
Speaker 1: She's written for the SP's and she's also a massive
Speaker 1: sports fan. We were all in Phoenix boiling our internal
Speaker 1: organs and drinking through it, and here we are now
Speaker 1: to talk about all things women's sports, the Olympics, ourselves.
Speaker 2: Morgan, tell us a little about yourself.
Speaker 3: My name's Morgan, I'm I have a dog. I've lived
Speaker 3: in Oregon, California, Connecticut. Ah in your heart?
Speaker 2: What else about me?
Speaker 3: I write, I write for TV, I do stand up comedy,
Speaker 3: can't dance?
Speaker 2: Is that good like sports?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Perfect.
Speaker 1: What state are you currently in, because if you start
Speaker 1: with single, people are gonna come looking.
Speaker 5: Uh oh, I don't want to be with anybody.
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm telling you, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm perfectly five, perfectly okay.
Speaker 2: I've been Los.
Speaker 3: Angeles, California. Heard about Aaron tell Us about yourself.
Speaker 6: My name's Morgan.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: TV writer, Uh yeah, stand up comic, primarily do some
Speaker 6: TV writing. Obsessed with women's sports since uh since birth.
Speaker 6: Got a pat podcast called her Lights, dedicated to women's sports.
Speaker 6: It's my favorite guest so far has been Sarah Spain.
Speaker 6: Good choice. Yeah, New Yorker, all my New York teams.
Speaker 6: I've got a little baby Terrier dog named Jeter because
Speaker 6: I have a small obsession with Derek Jeter. I have
Speaker 6: a wife, but she refuses to get married, so I
Speaker 6: call her partner. Her name's Sarah.
Speaker 7: No h.
Speaker 6: That's about it.
Speaker 2: Pretty good, Pretty good. Let's talk about this All Star weekend.
Speaker 1: It was massively successful for the league, for the players
Speaker 1: and for everyone who attended. Everybody I talked to said,
Speaker 1: by far the best one yet, and I would agree
Speaker 1: both on the parties, the activations, the game play, you know,
Speaker 1: the eyeballs. Everything was pretty pretty high end, and it's
Speaker 1: if you went to those a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: it felt very different. Even if you just went to
Speaker 1: the Chicago one where they gave us roughly one month's
Speaker 1: notice and it felt a little you know, thrown together
Speaker 1: at the last minute. This was a whole different situation, Morgan,
Speaker 1: What did you make of just like the spectacle of
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know, I had such a phenomenal time,
Speaker 3: and I think obviously I went with you know, some
Speaker 3: some far higher profile people than me, so I definitely
Speaker 3: got a little bit of a rarefied view of the
Speaker 3: whole thing. But it was so lovely and by far
Speaker 3: the best thing about it was to be at these
Speaker 3: parties and to be at the game and to see
Speaker 3: like people I've I've really admired for a long time,
Speaker 3: just be loved, just be like showered with praise and awe.
Speaker 5: And that was the coolest part.
Speaker 3: It was like it was women's sports on a pedestal
Speaker 3: in a great way.
Speaker 1: You are way too cool to name drop, but I'll
Speaker 1: do it for you so our listeners can get a
Speaker 1: view from Afar of what it is to hang with
Speaker 1: a dream squad. It was you subered Meghan Rappino, Aubrey
Speaker 1: Plaza and Jason Sedeikis courtside and at all the parties
Speaker 1: like that is an unbelievable group of people to get
Speaker 1: to go to this kind of event with. And I mean,
Speaker 1: we got to ask about I saw on your Instagram
Speaker 1: that you were taking shots in the New Phoenix Mercury
Speaker 1: training facility, and we know for a fact, by the
Speaker 1: rest of my internet's looting that that is where Aubrey
Speaker 1: Plaza tour acl playing a game of knockouts, So I
Speaker 1: have to ask was it you?
Speaker 2: It was not me.
Speaker 3: And by the way, when you started that sentence with
Speaker 3: I know you were taking shots, I was.
Speaker 5: Like, oh no, what did she see?
Speaker 2: Okay, have basketball?
Speaker 6: It was not me.
Speaker 3: I was in line. I was in a knockout line,
Speaker 3: minding my own business.
Speaker 5: And yeah, she went down.
Speaker 2: My girl, Aubrey went down, but she's she.
Speaker 3: I mean, she handled it better than I ever could have.
Speaker 3: So strong.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, there's a thing about having a catastrophic
Speaker 1: injury in a sporting event where everyone is bummed and
Speaker 1: yet somewhat prepared that it might happen.
Speaker 2: But just play a knockout with your friends.
Speaker 1: I mean a whole I was trying to when I
Speaker 1: saw her the next night court side, I'm like, are
Speaker 1: those is that Aubrey on crutches?
Speaker 2: And then I start looking around.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just trying to imagine the faces of
Speaker 1: the people around her that are trying to be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh you good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I will say, oh my god, we're
Speaker 3: aal It was friendly, but it was you know, it
Speaker 3: was everyone I was with can like shoot, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean like obviously Jason's great, and and Aubrey can play,
Speaker 3: and her sister can play nat Plaza and Jason's sister Lindsay,
Speaker 3: you know, is there she can play, so everyone would play.
Speaker 5: So people were you know, people were going for the ball.
Speaker 3: It wasn't it wasn't too loose, but yeah, she just
Speaker 3: took a you know, one of those. She came down funny,
Speaker 3: you know, and and to be very honest, like she
Speaker 3: was so chill about it, like so not hysterical the
Speaker 3: way I probably would have been that. I was like,
Speaker 3: I can't be it can't be that bad. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, she's fine, She's fine. I was like, no,
Speaker 3: she's just like incredibly H's incredible uh tolerance and uh
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh yeah, anybody that okay with
Speaker 3: being heart is fine.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh no, she really.
Speaker 5: Did do it.
Speaker 3: And then we went you know, she went to the
Speaker 3: you know, the team, the facility. I mean, it was
Speaker 3: just every everyone was great. I think people were like
Speaker 3: nervous and everyone was great.
Speaker 1: A good place to terry acl right if you're kind
Speaker 1: of unexpectedly stuffer that kind of injury, doing it with
Speaker 1: a world renowned training staff and a brand element. She's
Speaker 1: the first one in the MRI machine, the ice math
Speaker 1: like she's just like getting DIBs on everything.
Speaker 7: Faller.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was, but it was, you know, obviously
Speaker 3: it put a damper on on.
Speaker 2: What was otherwise.
Speaker 3: It's just the coolest experience, like for me, for anybody
Speaker 3: out there who's in that kind of played in high
Speaker 3: school level of you know, it could have been me,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And it could never have
Speaker 3: been me. But when you get an opportunity to like
Speaker 3: you all right, hey, this is the floor where and
Speaker 3: then you get to pretend your other p balls is
Speaker 3: like the Diana Tarasi court, you know, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm a grown woman and I'm like, I'm like, Elsie,
Speaker 3: take a picture of me on the court, like it's just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then her body reminded her you are not
Speaker 1: that you are in fact, although A's Aubrey's good Aubrey
Speaker 1: and she's very good from the pistol shrim we've all
Speaker 1: seen the college.
Speaker 3: Three of us played on a team called the Spice Girls.
Speaker 3: We won the twenty seventeen Municipal League in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: But Aubrey this season because she had tore her other aco.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh my god. Put her in bubble wrap, Aaron.
Speaker 1: Did anyone suffer any catastrophic injuries near you or as
Speaker 1: a result of.
Speaker 2: You this weekend?
Speaker 6: Hopefully not as a result of me. I thought between
Speaker 6: the Gin and Tonics and the one hundred and sixteen
Speaker 6: degree heat, I was gonna die. I kept all my
Speaker 6: acls attacked, but I basically just did like a triangle
Speaker 6: from the hotel to the Footprint Center to the Convention
Speaker 6: Center back to the hotel.
Speaker 7: Bar.
Speaker 6: Yeah. My friend was like, do you want to explore Phoenix?
Speaker 1: I go?
Speaker 6: Does anybody ever want to explore Phoenix?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: I don't. I'm good, I've I've performed there. I'm totally good,
Speaker 6: but yeah, the energy and excitement. I've never seen little
Speaker 6: the same amount of little girls and grown ass women
Speaker 6: chasing players around for pictures. It was so hilarious and
Speaker 6: heartwarming at the same time. I was literally having a
Speaker 6: conversation with a friend of a friend and she just
Speaker 6: ran and I was like, where'd she go? And she
Speaker 6: I think she saw some player and just just sprinted
Speaker 6: like she's in her fifties. I was like, where did she?
Speaker 6: Where did she just go? It was amazing. I just
Speaker 6: couldn't stop smiling the whole weekend. It was just like
Speaker 6: a so good bag of joy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I met you at your hotel, part of the triangle,
Speaker 1: the Bermuda Triangle of your Phoenix visit. And one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things about going to women's sporting events is
Speaker 1: all the brilliant, badass, smart, incredible women that I know
Speaker 1: in the world of sports, and particularly the ones that
Speaker 1: are like president of teams, but you're still just like
Speaker 1: having drinks and shooting the shit. It feels very different
Speaker 1: than those same spaces in the men's.
Speaker 2: Sports world that I've been in for a while.
Speaker 1: But one of my other favorite things is just all
Speaker 1: the all the lesbians I love lesbians and I love
Speaker 1: their lesbian stories, and you had like the most quintessential
Speaker 1: sports lesbian moment right at the bar there, can you
Speaker 1: please share?
Speaker 6: Yeah? By the way, Like I text her, She's like, Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna bring some of my friends. I'm like okay.
Speaker 6: So I meet her friends and they're all like a
Speaker 6: president of the Valkyries, president of the Toronto w and
Speaker 6: like I'm trying to make small talk with these people,
Speaker 6: and I'm just like, oh, hey, what do you do?
Speaker 6: And I'm like, I me at the Chuck and Chuckle
Speaker 6: Hut on Saturday. And she's like she looked like she
Speaker 6: was twenty five. She's like, I'm running the Toronto expansion
Speaker 6: to the WMB. I was like, could I get a
Speaker 6: little warning before I meet these people? I was losing
Speaker 6: my mind. Thankfully I had a couple of drinks. Anyway,
Speaker 6: So I meet one of your friends, Carrie, and we're
Speaker 6: just chatting right and she goes, uh, oh you do
Speaker 6: stand up? Are you have a women's sports podcast? I
Speaker 6: go yeah, yeah. All of a sudden, I don't know
Speaker 6: how she put it together. She goes, did you date
Speaker 6: you know so and so? And I go, yeah, I
Speaker 6: did date Gwen and she goes, I dated Gwen and
Speaker 6: we just screamed like that literally, that was in the
Speaker 6: first five minutes. We both dated the same person. And
Speaker 6: then Sarah, you don't even know this, but after the game,
Speaker 6: we went back to the bar. My friend Gretchen and
Speaker 6: I and your friends were there. We sat down with them,
Speaker 6: and Haley said she ran into her ex girlfriend who
Speaker 6: was like toxic. At halftime. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 6: everybody was just seeing their act.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and then and then Carrie was like, Haley,
Speaker 1: you look familiar to I'm like, did you guys date
Speaker 1: They're like, we don't think so.
Speaker 2: And I was just like, this is the best.
Speaker 6: She looked so familiar to me. And at one point
Speaker 6: I was like, oh god, I did a lot of
Speaker 6: shows in Seattle and I was not sober, so who knows.
Speaker 3: I could not relate more to like the showing up
Speaker 3: and everyone's like, got our real job and it's cool,
Speaker 3: and you're just you're trying to exp like, go, what
Speaker 3: I do is I like make people up in my
Speaker 3: brain and then.
Speaker 5: I just go like I'll have them talk to each other.
Speaker 6: I put socks on my hands, I'm like, hey, hey, you.
Speaker 6: How do you speak?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: They all look so young.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: So I was like, so trying to make up credits
Speaker 6: I didn't have. I was like, oh cool, you run
Speaker 6: two expansion teams. Yeah, well I'll try to get up earlier.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, you guys realized that all of those people
Speaker 2: want to be you though. I mean, that's how it
Speaker 2: always is.
Speaker 1: That's that's the beauty of all of it, though, is like,
Speaker 1: is that's the beauty of sports.
Speaker 3: I think for anybody not in sports, as you're just like,
Speaker 3: there is nothing cooler.
Speaker 5: There's nothing cooler twenty years.
Speaker 1: In this like musicians want to be in sports, and
Speaker 1: sports people want to be music and comedians. It's it's
Speaker 1: that's why it's fun to get everyone together.
Speaker 2: And this weekend was just.
Speaker 3: I always tell people, like, if you want to really
Speaker 3: compliment a comedian, tell them, like you like the way
Speaker 3: they play the guitar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like you're a really good Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just happened.
Speaker 5: To see you that like time that you Yeah.
Speaker 1: We won't even name prominent podcasters who insist on playing
Speaker 1: their guitar during the podcast that you're definitely listening to
Speaker 1: for things other than their guitar shout out Mark.
Speaker 2: Marrit great podcast speaking of Uh.
Speaker 1: Saw that in your bio. I wasn't going to bring
Speaker 1: it up, but I'm so glad you did.
Speaker 2: What was that?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 6: How was that?
Speaker 2: Are you still friends?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: We're friends. It's like it was like a blip, but
Speaker 5: like a blip.
Speaker 3: But you know when you record, Uh, when you go
Speaker 3: on record about a blip, then it goes somehow.
Speaker 5: You You're like googling yourself and you know, I love.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what men love is when you call
Speaker 1: them a blip.
Speaker 5: I would think he would call me.
Speaker 1: I think direction of anything, a relationship or otherwise.
Speaker 2: It was, it was.
Speaker 5: It's just it's just a funny. It's funny what becomes
Speaker 5: the headline, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Where you're just like I like, if I google myself,
Speaker 3: it'll be like my name Mark Marin and.
Speaker 5: Like, uh did she get fat?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: It's like there's like or there's another headlight? Is what
Speaker 5: happened to her? That's a good one.
Speaker 2: I've been getting that.
Speaker 6: That's on everybody and you're like, love, Mark, she's twelve,
Speaker 6: What do you mean what.
Speaker 2: Happened to you? She grew?
Speaker 1: You know, Morgan, I heard you on Pabulatory, my buddy
Speaker 1: Poblatory's podcast, which is fantastic.
Speaker 2: Pubulatory finds Out, and I love the way you.
Speaker 1: Talked about your experiences in women's sports, and particularly you
Speaker 1: were on the way to a w NBA event and
Speaker 1: seated next to a woman that said she'd been going forever,
Speaker 1: and you were thinking about her as you were watching
Speaker 1: the eyeballs, the craziness, the enthusias, and how fun it
Speaker 1: must be for her to kind of see everyone catch
Speaker 1: up to this thing that she's been in love with,
Speaker 1: be going to for decades. And that's kind of how
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us feels like we're excited,
Speaker 1: but also there's some good and some bad. So give
Speaker 1: me the best part about everyone else discovering how brad
Speaker 1: women's sports are and the worst part.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, shout out to Helen that actually was on
Speaker 3: sitting next her on the plane on the way to
Speaker 3: the final four. You know it's right, Yeah, playing a
Speaker 3: plane full of a plane full of you know, fans
Speaker 3: and a lot older women and yeah, ex girlfriends, and
Speaker 3: Helen's a it was is like eighty and in her
Speaker 3: eighties and she has been going forever, And I think
Speaker 3: about you know, I think it's very hard, and I
Speaker 3: often think about, like, oh, the year before the w NBA.
Speaker 2: I think about, like what if I think about the.
Speaker 3: Players who were drafted the first year, like Cynthia Cooper,
Speaker 3: like who probably had another decade and you know, who
Speaker 3: played in the league when it started and were older
Speaker 3: than you know people are now who come in, and
Speaker 3: just kind of the idea of missed opportunities is very
Speaker 3: hard to ignore when the opportunities arise right when the
Speaker 3: attention is sort of given to this thing that's so magical.
Speaker 5: But you know, oh my gosh, what if? The what if?
Speaker 3: The hypotheticals are really impossible to not think about, and
Speaker 3: I get like, I get like legitimately emotional. I mean
Speaker 3: seeing Cheryl Miller there and Myers and these women that
Speaker 3: you know, in my mind should be uh you know,
Speaker 3: household names and are in households that I would hang
Speaker 3: at it. But uh, but I just think, like, man,
Speaker 3: you know, what the what ifs of of women who
Speaker 3: probably were good enough to play but couldn't afford to,
Speaker 3: you know, uh, take a job playing basketball that wasn't
Speaker 3: going to pay for their life or their family.
Speaker 5: Uh, all of these things.
Speaker 2: So obviously.
Speaker 5: Now what is happening is is so cool. It's amazing
Speaker 5: as a fan to to see. But then you know,
Speaker 5: you gotta you gotta think, you.
Speaker 3: Know, and then of course you go like and then
Speaker 3: you go in two hundred years ago, we couldn't even
Speaker 3: own a hat like you really it really is quick, right,
Speaker 3: you have to play hat, You're like, you try to
Speaker 3: goa like you got to keep it in the in
Speaker 3: the sort of confines of basketball, otherwise you'll be like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, we started so late.
Speaker 2: We didn't but we all got to have credit cards. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we win in.
Speaker 1: Our own name, Aaron.
Speaker 6: Best part is, you know, my I told you so moments.
Speaker 6: For the last forty years, people dragging being like convincing
Speaker 6: people to go to women's sports games, And now I
Speaker 6: get texts like, hey, Aeronie, you going tonight. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I am going tonight. I've gone every night for thirty
Speaker 6: years and draged you there, and now like just seeing
Speaker 6: them like so excited to play ahead to go to games.
Speaker 6: By far, that's the best. I feel like everyone is
Speaker 6: just like coming out of the woodwork and enjoying themselves. Also,
Speaker 6: I don't have to hide in my room and watch
Speaker 6: the any type of women's sport on my computer because
Speaker 6: now Sarah, my partner, is like I'll watch. I'm like, great,
Speaker 6: it's only been seven years we've been together.
Speaker 3: And I'm to hear somebody else right like talk save
Speaker 3: my life to me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just like I have to go
Speaker 6: do work. And I'm like, oh, you know, I watch
Speaker 6: like women's bowling. I'm like great. But the the worst
Speaker 6: part is these like dumb hot takes. I was at
Speaker 6: the Liberty, Connecticut Sun game before the Surface of the
Speaker 6: Sun Phoenix weekend and this guy was with his daughter.
Speaker 6: I'll make this quick, and it was Alyssa Thomas was
Speaker 6: at the foul line and in a loud voice, he's like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, she's a terrible shooter. Why why don't
Speaker 6: look at her form? I don't know why I'm talking
Speaker 6: like this is like every straight man.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that's what he sounded like, Yeah, yeah, don't.
Speaker 6: Look at her form. You can't shoot like that. Why
Speaker 6: aren't even why she's on the team. And he said
Speaker 6: it a couple of times, and I go, I can't.
Speaker 6: I just have to. Like my friend was like, and
Speaker 6: I go, I'm just I have to. So I leaned
Speaker 6: in and I go Alyssa Thomas is actually on the
Speaker 6: Olympic team. She has more triple doubles than anybody in
Speaker 6: the WNBA. She's two short torn shoulder labrums and that's
Speaker 6: why she actually can't shoot like you know, her her
Speaker 6: arm above her head. She's a national treasure. And then
Speaker 6: I sit back and he was like, and then my
Speaker 6: blood was boiling. So I'm just like, shut up. You
Speaker 6: don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: So that's probably and yet it means progress because it's
Speaker 1: just like it's just like men's sports where people feel
Speaker 1: like they know everything and they say it loudly and
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun sometimes to call them out. I
Speaker 1: used to do that in bars a lot, where guys
Speaker 1: didn't know what I did for a living, so they
Speaker 1: would try to hit on me by telling me things
Speaker 1: about what was happening on the TV, and I would
Speaker 1: just wait a while and then eventually be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Actually, he hasn't played all season, so the
Speaker 1: reason he's not in the game tonight is because he
Speaker 1: tours whatever and he hasn't played yet.
Speaker 2: This oh right, I meant, And I'm like, it's like
Speaker 2: it's also.
Speaker 3: Like it's like I always think that that happens around
Speaker 3: like for every sport, around playoffs, around championships. You know,
Speaker 3: we're like, yeah, it's like twenty twenty three, and someone's
Speaker 3: like Anthony Edward's pretty good, Like it's every everyone is
Speaker 3: like the new person at something, and I do think that, Like,
Speaker 3: I feel like it's so not unique to women's basketball.
Speaker 5: I've said this before, the idea of like this kind of.
Speaker 3: Instant expert I feel like in every single pocket of
Speaker 3: the Internet, somebody is getting mad because somebody knew or
Speaker 3: somebody young is not just like pretending that when they
Speaker 3: entered something they had all the information. But then there's
Speaker 3: also people doing that and also like monetizing that space.
Speaker 2: But it's happening in every pocket.
Speaker 3: So you see, like if you follow a lot of things,
Speaker 3: if you're like sort of an enthusiast of many subjects,
Speaker 3: and I am, I'm not an expert, but in an enthusiast,
Speaker 3: it's like every pocket of the media space is having
Speaker 3: the same fights, you know, but women's basketball is just
Speaker 3: such this pronounced easy to watch, right, We got our moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got to feel like epidemiologist in two yes,
Speaker 1: where all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: Everyone's a fucking vaccine expert.
Speaker 1: I've only spent my whole life doing this and when
Speaker 1: to medical Yes, but yeah, that's how I feel.
Speaker 2: Definitely.
Speaker 5: It's like when the broadcaster as Johnson.
Speaker 6: And john I always think about get the Johnson.
Speaker 3: And John's always think about like if it reaches the view,
Speaker 3: if it reaches like Today's show, sort of like you know,
Speaker 3: like super the mainstream is mainstream gets. That's where you
Speaker 3: go like, well, that's never for experts, right. That's say,
Speaker 3: if you look at the video of like the the
Speaker 3: Today's Show, they're going like, there's this new.
Speaker 2: Thing, what's email?
Speaker 5: What's the symboly dude?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: And you know there's people at home going like I
Speaker 3: could go on there and say what email is?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 3: So I think we're also reacting to a media eCos
Speaker 3: ecosystem where non experts are kind of primarily the ones
Speaker 3: making most of the noise.
Speaker 1: Or the most seen noise, right, And unfortunately a lot
Speaker 1: of them are just dudes who have a loud, loud voice,
Speaker 1: so we have to hear their takes, no matter how
Speaker 1: uninformed they could have.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've been in the room where they're like, we
Speaker 1: can't do that topic today because unfortunately the panelists don't
Speaker 1: know enough about it. I'm like, okay, but they have
Speaker 1: to learn mma and like that hockey goal is name,
Speaker 1: So why don't they have to learn this woman's name
Speaker 1: and something about her to talk about that?
Speaker 2: Isn't that part of their job? Anyway?
Speaker 6: Hope we can vote next week. We're hanging on by
Speaker 6: a thread.
Speaker 2: We we really are.
Speaker 1: We really are speaking of people saying dumb things. It's
Speaker 1: time for the Olympics, famously known for female athletes getting
Speaker 1: lots of coverage, a lot of it's shitty. Hey her
Speaker 1: coach did all the work, or there's her husband, let's
Speaker 1: focus on him.
Speaker 2: But let's talk about your plan for the.
Speaker 1: Olympics, because between the time change eight thousand events in theory,
Speaker 1: we have jobs. What's your plan, Aaron? Are you waking up?
Speaker 1: Are you watching in primetime? What's you know?
Speaker 6: I've never done cocaine, but I might start just at
Speaker 6: midnight so I can just pull all nighters because I
Speaker 6: traditionally say, like, you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch
Speaker 6: all those random sports I never have a chance to get.
Speaker 6: But then I'm also gonna watch all those sports that
Speaker 6: I also watch so I have I'm just gonna Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's just gonna be mainlining everything I can possibly get
Speaker 6: my hands on. I mean, do I have a chart
Speaker 6: because I have a Virger sports problem? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 2: Is it highlighted by important and times? Of course?
Speaker 6: It is it daily coverage? Have I set my uh
Speaker 6: you know Paris Olympics app and then you can put
Speaker 6: your time zone in? Yes I did, Yes, I did
Speaker 6: so yes, uh yeah, I mean I have my favorites.
Speaker 6: But like that's the fun thing. Then you fall in
Speaker 6: love with Like I was doing this random research because
Speaker 6: I have this Olympics project, and you know there's this
Speaker 6: you know, you get these stories that just take over
Speaker 6: your life and then you just become obsessed with this person,
Speaker 6: like this woman's Sonny Choi. She was a director of
Speaker 6: Opposite like Sta Lauder and now she's break dancing. I'm like, what, like,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna yeah, you know what I mean, it's the
Speaker 6: stories that are always amazing. So yeah, I'm just gonna
Speaker 6: be up. I'm gonna be up for fourteen days.
Speaker 2: Morgan Cocaine, I don't. Cocaine is not for me.
Speaker 1: I get yeah, no, no, I already talk a lot
Speaker 1: and think I'm anome. So I also have never done cocaine.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's what it does for you, cocaine cocaine.
Speaker 3: I uh, it's it's it's I would just I would.
Speaker 3: I think I would just say my insecurity is faster.
Speaker 3: I think that's like what I feel like, that's what
Speaker 3: it would do. That's why I've never tried to.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'll watch. I mean, here's the thing. I'll
Speaker 2: watch anything.
Speaker 5: I'll watch any sport. I love sports that way.
Speaker 2: I will certainly that.
Speaker 3: This is where I become like if a friend has
Speaker 3: a specific thing they want to watch, then I'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 3: now I have a person to watch with.
Speaker 5: But I think it'll just be me scrolling through, going
Speaker 5: that's so great.
Speaker 2: Your boyfriend Mark Emaricon crying. I'll be crying.
Speaker 5: I'll be that's what you've been to all be.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I just I love it so much.
Speaker 3: There's also I should chount out Clorsa Shields, one of
Speaker 3: my favorite boxers is a two time gold medalist. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's fighting Saturday, not in the Olympics, but people should
Speaker 3: know that too, and so I'll watch that, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna watch everything. And I'm the same with the stories,
Speaker 3: and I think like the Olympics is also like an
Speaker 3: interesting way of you know, I think women's basketball fans
Speaker 3: obviously we're like, hey, guys, this isn't new.
Speaker 5: But we're all kind of not all.
Speaker 3: Most viewers are those new fans for a lot of
Speaker 3: these sports. So it's kind of interesting also to see like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what have people get so into it and they
Speaker 3: get excited, and most people are just they they're like
Speaker 3: that's oh, that's my favorite synchronized swimmer, you know, and
Speaker 3: who's your second favorite?
Speaker 2: I don't know. So yeah, I'm gonna watch everything.
Speaker 1: I have no kind of well, I think some of
Speaker 1: the athletes, Yeah, some of the athletes in sports are
Speaker 1: actually being prepped this year in a way unlike any
Speaker 1: other to hopefully try to carry the momentum over. We
Speaker 1: talk about this and we have forever about how do
Speaker 1: we take some of these women's sports that get so
Speaker 1: much love during the Olympics and then disappear for four
Speaker 1: years and come back again.
Speaker 2: How do we make them more mainstream?
Speaker 1: And I think I've heard from some of the governing
Speaker 1: bodies and some of the folks behind those teams that
Speaker 1: they're really trying to not just push them out now,
Speaker 1: but to understand how to better take advantage of the
Speaker 1: spotlight that they get leading into new professional leagues like
Speaker 1: Love Volleyball. Seventy five percent of the Olympic roster for
Speaker 1: the volleyball team are already signed to contracts for Love.
Speaker 1: So when that comes up and starts its first professional season,
Speaker 1: hopefully we know the players were into them already, we
Speaker 1: want to go watch. So I think we're seeing that
Speaker 1: in some of the sports, and I really hope with
Speaker 1: the way women's sports is trending now that happens this time. Morgan,
Speaker 1: you mentioned claressa Shield who iss a boxer and a fighter,
Speaker 1: which leads us to the very important first edition, to
Speaker 1: fight Me. This is how this works. We stayed in opinion,
Speaker 1: loudly and with certainty, and then we post it on
Speaker 1: social media and we ask four.
Speaker 2: People to fight us about it.
Speaker 1: This seems unnecessary because no matter what I post on
Speaker 1: social media, someone tries to fight me about it, even
Speaker 1: if it's just a picture of my dog. But this
Speaker 1: time we are actually asking for feedback, and we do
Speaker 1: want people to fight us.
Speaker 2: So here's today's topic. You're in a bar fight with
Speaker 2: a pack of juicing Russians. Is that redundant? I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's the Olympics.
Speaker 1: You get five female summer Olympic athletes in their prime,
Speaker 1: current or past to fight alongside you, to recap bar
Speaker 1: fight against juicing Russians. Five current or past in their
Speaker 1: prime female summer olympians to fight alongside you.
Speaker 2: Who you got? I think we'll just do your whole
Speaker 2: five at once. Here is my list. Good luck beating me.
Speaker 2: Number one Jackie Joiner Cursey.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're talking have tathletes and to kathletes who are
Speaker 1: the greatest athletes on earth.
Speaker 2: Myself included.
Speaker 1: Of course, you gotta run, you gotta jump, you gotta throw.
Speaker 1: They do it all and nobody did it better than Jackie.
Speaker 1: She is literally the Swiss Army Knife of bar fighters.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry with Jackie Joinner Cursy. Number two, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you mentioned her. Claressa Shields two time Olympic gold
Speaker 1: medalist boxer.
Speaker 2: It'll be Mike Tyson punch out with those Rooskies. And
Speaker 2: she's an.
Speaker 1: MMA fighter as well, So no more explanation needed on
Speaker 1: that one claressa shields.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 1: Number three, Simone Biles. You need someone to crawl under
Speaker 1: the tables. You need someone to acrobatically avoid punches. High
Speaker 1: kicks to the face are a premium here.
Speaker 2: And just too quick. She's too small and too quick.
Speaker 1: They will not be able to get to her and
Speaker 1: low center of gravity punching up.
Speaker 2: She's small and bials. Number three.
Speaker 1: Number four Diana Tarassi a fucking killer. She literally told
Speaker 1: a ref in the middle of a game in the bubble,
Speaker 1: I'll see you in the lobby later. Okay, in the
Speaker 1: middle of a basketball game, a professional game, she got
Speaker 1: teed up for telling an official essentially I'm gonna fight you. Like,
Speaker 1: let's take this outside. Diana Tarassi probably has knives on
Speaker 1: her at any moment, just in case, So Dinah Trusty.
Speaker 2: Number four and finally number five, Billy Jean King.
Speaker 1: I need an organizer, okay, I need someone that's gonna
Speaker 1: remind us to take the higher ground attack from above,
Speaker 1: fill the flanks, use coordinated attacks to take people out
Speaker 1: at the knees, utilize broken glass legs, chairs, whatever's available.
Speaker 1: And BJK is gonna kind of like set the strategy
Speaker 1: for us. That's my five fight me.
Speaker 6: I'll jump in while Morgan's getting her team ready outside
Speaker 6: her door. Well, two of them are on the list.
Speaker 6: Number one with Clarissa's shields, I mean two times a medalist.
Speaker 6: I mean, come on, the first person that you want
Speaker 6: to fight with obviously these closer shields, and like you said, Morgan,
Speaker 6: she's going up like two weight classes like to fight.
Speaker 6: I can't. I can't even she's unreal second ron drowsy
Speaker 6: bronze medalist judo, and then of course UFCMMA. I just
Speaker 6: she makes me feel safe. Even when I see a
Speaker 6: picture of her, I go, everything's gonna be okay. I
Speaker 6: also had Simone Biles because they don't they won't, they
Speaker 6: won't see what's coming, you know, they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 6: they're overlooker, and then she'll slide between people's legs and
Speaker 6: then just do a lot of you know, can I
Speaker 6: say dick punches?
Speaker 8: Just did.
Speaker 6: Then I went with flow Joe because I'm just gonna
Speaker 6: jump on her back and she's gonna run us out
Speaker 6: of the situation. It's still one hundred meter dash record
Speaker 6: that has never been broken. So I just need speed
Speaker 6: and I need to piggyback on her back. Then the
Speaker 6: last one is the wild card, and that's Maria Sharapova.
Speaker 2: Because she speaks Russian.
Speaker 6: She's super hot. It'll be a lot of smoking mirrors,
Speaker 6: and then we can whack someone on the heavi of
Speaker 6: her tennis racket.
Speaker 1: How did I forget the most important part of any
Speaker 1: bar situation is you need a very hot distraction.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you need a translator and a hot distraction. And
Speaker 6: it's not gonna be me. So I'm bringing my girl,
Speaker 6: Maria jier Bova.
Speaker 2: Very smart, very smart Morgan.
Speaker 5: I was gonna pick five tarasses.
Speaker 3: I wondered if I could do that, just because I
Speaker 3: also feel like I would watch that movie like I
Speaker 3: would watch like just an army of you know, when
Speaker 3: someone gets hit and then they like laugh or smile
Speaker 3: or something. I feel like, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: where it's like it's like that thought you could get
Speaker 3: me and just kind of like and also like I
Speaker 3: feel like there'd be like noogies and like funny. I
Speaker 3: feel like she would be kind of fun and and
Speaker 3: cute with the you know, with the with the fighting
Speaker 3: in a cinematic way. Uh Holly Mang, I don't I'm
Speaker 3: not like an expert in the but the weightlifter, I
Speaker 3: mean that's really mangled.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the more famous of the mangoled siblings. The other
Speaker 1: one played for I think the packers or something who cares.
Speaker 1: Holly is the one we care about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I I mean, I this is like
Speaker 3: a selfish thing, but I would just like pick people
Speaker 3: that I wanted to hang out with because I feel
Speaker 3: like we might you might lose anyway to die well, Diana,
Speaker 3: and I just feel like if you're gonna lose anyway,
Speaker 3: like if this is if we're if we're in this
Speaker 3: hypothetical situation, I get to be there also, right.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, well then I then I see it. Then
Speaker 2: it would be.
Speaker 3: Diana, and it would be I am more and uh you.
Speaker 5: Know, and and and like I think Sue Bird would
Speaker 5: be in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we.
Speaker 3: Got Diana, Sue Maya, Holly, yeah, and Meghan also because
Speaker 3: then they can hang out, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: like they probably want.
Speaker 6: To be with you diact.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I'm trying to win the fight, trying to
Speaker 3: have a good time, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: That's how that's very clear.
Speaker 2: It's very clear based on the roster.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I guess this is the last time we're
Speaker 6: going to talk to you, Morgan, because you're gonna die,
Speaker 6: that's all right, surrounded by a pack of wonderful lesbians.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you're going to go out in style, quite literally,
Speaker 1: because Sue and Meghan.
Speaker 5: Will not let you die.
Speaker 3: I might even say I kind of just like, I
Speaker 3: kind of feel like they would want.
Speaker 2: To be with each other. They probably it was nice
Speaker 2: of you. It was very soft. I'm like, I'm planning
Speaker 2: to party right now.
Speaker 3: You guys, you guys are you guys are strategizing to war.
Speaker 5: I'm just like, well I have to if I okay,
Speaker 5: if I have I you know.
Speaker 2: You're just listing off your Phoenix weekend again. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: we got.
Speaker 3: I was going to say Cloressa Shields, but I feel
Speaker 3: like that got like, you know a little bit.
Speaker 2: It felt like now I'm I'm I'm piling on.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And by the way, since this is what happens on
Speaker 1: the I want everyone to know that Billy Jean King
Speaker 1: coached in the Olympics and also was inducted into the
Speaker 1: US Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame as a special contributor,
Speaker 1: so you know, if there's any like uh, I don't
Speaker 1: actually know if BJK played in the Olympics. I don't
Speaker 1: think she did, but there was.
Speaker 6: No thwart like twenty five of lesbians being like Billy J.
Speaker 2: King didn't play on the ill. I'm just getting out
Speaker 2: ahead of the well. Actuallys because we're having fun here.
Speaker 1: Everybody just having fun, except for Morgan because she's dead,
Speaker 1: but she had fun.
Speaker 5: I think I had the most fun.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like I did indeed have fun
Speaker 1: with both of you. Thank you for coming on. This
Speaker 1: is the inaugural group chat. We will have to have
Speaker 1: you back sometime because I had a blast. It was
Speaker 1: so fun to hang. When we come back, we'll come
Speaker 1: out swinging. Get your gloves on.
Speaker 5: Can we stay and talk to each other after it ends?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So the group chat we'll say all the good stuff
Speaker 1: that isn't suitable for air right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, so welcome back, but don't go anywhere just yet.
Speaker 1: We're not letting you go without a fight. And by
Speaker 1: that I mean the very first edition of Fight Me.
Speaker 1: I said what I said, so you know what.
Speaker 2: Fight me. That's right.
Speaker 1: You heard our list during group chat and now we
Speaker 1: need yours, the five female summer Olympic athletes in their prime,
Speaker 1: current or past that you want to fight alongside you
Speaker 1: against those cheating juice and Russians.
Speaker 2: And I stand by my list, so I say fight me.
Speaker 8: All right, hold on, wait a minute, Sarah.
Speaker 7: I know you weren't about to get to this without
Speaker 7: giving me an alex An opportunity to jump in here.
Speaker 8: I know you are.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay, yes, more challengers, Okay, fight me, ladies.
Speaker 8: All right, well, I'll go first.
Speaker 7: Then I think we've got some overlap here, so maybe
Speaker 7: we'll be evenly matched till we get about person three.
Speaker 8: But I gotta start with money. Moowan some mo biles.
Speaker 8: I agree with you.
Speaker 7: She's taking out the legs every single time. She's also
Speaker 7: a distraction. I don't know about you, but like short people,
Speaker 7: y'all have more power than you think you have. You
Speaker 7: could leg sweep one leg sweep, and it's a rap
Speaker 7: for all these tall, imposing juice and Russians.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's number one.
Speaker 7: Number two, of course, Diana Tarazzi's on my list because,
Speaker 7: as you mentioned, the whole running with the ref at
Speaker 7: the lobby. But also she just knows how to talk,
Speaker 7: and when you're compiling a team for something such as this,
Speaker 7: you need somebody.
Speaker 8: Who's gonna be all bark and potentially no bite.
Speaker 7: Not saying that she will be no bite, because DT
Speaker 7: don't we need the bite.
Speaker 2: We need the bite. We need the bite.
Speaker 7: My third person is actually gonna be Venus Williams, not
Speaker 7: Serena Williams, because she does edge out her sister in
Speaker 7: gold medals. And my thought process with this is not
Speaker 7: only is Venus tall and long. If the end of
Speaker 7: the day we can just throw some metals at folks heads.
Speaker 8: I feel like that's you know what I mean, bar fights?
Speaker 2: You got broken bitch with the metal? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: I feel like that works. So that's my third person.
Speaker 7: I also gotta go flow Joe here.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 8: I'm picking flow Jo because of the nails.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 7: If we're fighting and you you get somebody with the
Speaker 7: nails in the eye or somewhere, that's deadly, I feel
Speaker 7: like people don't think about that a lot. So definitely
Speaker 7: Flow Joe. And then ip to haj Mohammad fencing.
Speaker 2: She gets to bring the weapon.
Speaker 8: She brings the weapon. Nobody else thought about weapons be
Speaker 8: for real.
Speaker 7: I know it's not an actual sword, but I feel
Speaker 7: like she can make.
Speaker 2: Some sh It's Dabby an Abbey.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so that's my Thot's Ichier five.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that is a good list.
Speaker 1: I mean, fight me, mine still wins, But that's pretty good, Alex,
Speaker 1: what you got well?
Speaker 4: I have to say I was not expecting everyone and
Speaker 4: their mama to have Clarissa Shields on their list. But
Speaker 4: Clarissa is a good choice, probably just because you need
Speaker 4: to have a boxer in a fight. So gonna throw
Speaker 4: her on my list because there's no rus.
Speaker 2: Alex thought she was the only Olympic expert around here.
Speaker 4: But here's where we get in the weeds, because we're
Speaker 4: going to Helen Marules the first American to win Olympic
Speaker 4: golden wrestling. And not only did she do that, I
Speaker 4: sprinted there to see it happen, saw it live in
Speaker 4: Rio in twenty sixteen. She also trained against Russians in
Speaker 4: order to win gold. WHOA, all right, then I've got
Speaker 4: Kayla Harrison first American to win judo gold and then
Speaker 4: she did it again twenty twelve and twenty sixteen and
Speaker 4: then entered the world of professional fighting. So never gonna
Speaker 4: count against her. Okay, here's where I'm changing the rules
Speaker 4: a little bit. Because I know he's at Olympian. I'm
Speaker 4: going to pick a Paralympian. Can I get a judge's judges.
Speaker 1: Judges ruling, because Billy Jean King is allowed due to
Speaker 1: her coaching and her her honors from the Olympic Committee,
Speaker 1: we will allow paralympians as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oksana Masters. If you don't know who she is,
Speaker 4: look her up. Has won of gazillion medals in so
Speaker 4: many different sports, from rowing to cross country skiing, to
Speaker 4: biathlon to finally cycling, and her persevere. You need somebody
Speaker 4: who can persevere. Finally, I have to say when it
Speaker 4: comes to sports, I'm against doping in a bar fight,
Speaker 4: though who's to say? And so that's why I'm adding Mary.
Speaker 6: And Jones to my list.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, First of all, Alex just being willing to put
Speaker 1: aside rules for one moment of her life in order
Speaker 1: to win the bar fight.
Speaker 8: Is that it's not for that.
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