Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where I'm ready
Speaker 1: for a full week of Spain related puns and dad
Speaker 1: jokes come in my way.
Speaker 2: After I single.
Speaker 1: Handedly won the FIFA Men's World Cup, and I'm even
Speaker 1: more ready for the Women's World Cup next year. The
Speaker 1: countdown is on. It's Monday, July twentieth. Welcome to season
Speaker 1: three of the show. Today, Big Citrus convenes to celebrate
Speaker 1: the start of a new era.
Speaker 2: Plus, we get you.
Speaker 1: Caught up on a whole lot of news you need
Speaker 1: to know, and I share my favorite moments from she
Speaker 1: weekend in Las Vegas, hanging with the Backstreet Boys, Holly
Speaker 1: Road doing the Roger Rabbit, cruising down the Strip atop
Speaker 1: a double decker bus, and so much more. After three
Speaker 1: and a half days in Vegas with that crew, I
Speaker 1: am simultaneously completely exhausted and also ready to run through
Speaker 1: a wall for women's sports.
Speaker 2: It was incredible. Plus, it's a good week to be
Speaker 2: a battie.
Speaker 1: The WNBA news cycle keeps churning, and an untouchable record
Speaker 1: got touched. All coming up next, Welcome Backslaices. Here's what
Speaker 1: you need to know today. Let's start in the WNBA,
Speaker 1: where Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello has been suspended for
Speaker 1: Tonight's game against the Las Vegas Aces due to a
Speaker 1: comment she made about Angel Reese during the Tempo's one
Speaker 1: eleven ninety two loss to the Atlanta Dream on Friday.
Speaker 1: When Tempo forward Niaresabli went down with an injury after
Speaker 1: making contact with Reese, Brondelo could be heard on the
Speaker 1: game broadcast saying something that sounded like the term protected species.
Speaker 1: Brondelo is from Australia, where the phraze protected species has
Speaker 1: been used in sports to describe a player who seems
Speaker 1: to enjoy special treatment from the refs. After the game,
Speaker 1: Angel Reese reposted a tweet from a fan that read
Speaker 1: calling a black woman a species, and Reese added quote
Speaker 1: are we surprised, tagging Brondelo and adding a clown face emoji. Brondelo,
Speaker 1: for her part, was very quick to apologize, writing quote, Angel,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry last night, in the emotion of the moment
Speaker 1: after Niarra's injury, I used a phrase that I shouldn't
Speaker 1: have used, and I take full responsibility for that. My
Speaker 1: frustration was with the officiating, but my words unfairly put
Speaker 1: the focus on you. Brondello continued later, I also understand
Speaker 1: that my words carried an impact beyond what I intended,
Speaker 1: particularly for black women in our league, and I'm deeply
Speaker 1: sorry for that end quote. Reese addressed the apology before
Speaker 1: Sunday's contest against her former team, the Sky, saying quote, First,
Speaker 1: I appreciate Sandy's apology, but I also appreciate the love
Speaker 1: and support that I've had for the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: It has been overwhelming, with a lot of love and
Speaker 1: also other things. But I am grateful that the league
Speaker 1: did take action. There is no place for discrimination or
Speaker 1: hate in this league, from anyone, from fans to coaches
Speaker 1: to players, and I'm just grateful that we're able to
Speaker 1: move on from the situation and just play winning basketball
Speaker 1: end quote. Even more WNBA, there are four games on
Speaker 1: the schedule tonight, including a contest at eight pm Eastern
Speaker 1: between the Dallas Wings and New York Liberty. Now, that
Speaker 1: game was supposed to be played last Thursday, but the
Speaker 1: Liberty's charter flight had mechanical issues and they sat on
Speaker 1: the runway for twelve hours, so the game was postponed
Speaker 1: to tonight. Also, at eight the Aces take on the
Speaker 1: tempo without head coach Brondello. As we mentioned, at ten
Speaker 1: pm Eastern, the league leading Minnesota Lynx played the team
Speaker 1: at the very bottom of the standings, the Seattle Storm.
Speaker 1: Also at ten the Washington Mystics tip off for a
Speaker 1: game against the Golden State Valkyries.
Speaker 2: There are six more.
Speaker 1: Games Wednesday night than its all eyes on the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six All Star Game and All Star weekend. We'll
Speaker 1: have a preview of the Big Game later this week
Speaker 1: and details about how to meet the whole Good Game
Speaker 1: Gang in Chicago later on in this show to the
Speaker 1: NWSL where it's been a very busy week for the
Speaker 1: Batties of Gotham FC. On Wednesday, their game against the
Speaker 1: Washington Spirit at City Field featured a sellout crowd of
Speaker 1: forty two, one hundred and seventy five people. Sam Kerr
Speaker 1: made her Gotham debut and Rose Level scored a world
Speaker 1: for a one nail Gotham win. It was a record
Speaker 1: crowd for a women's sporting event in New York City
Speaker 1: and it bodes well for the team as they've announced
Speaker 1: they're relocating from New Jersey to play at Etzehat Stadium
Speaker 1: in New York City.
Speaker 2: Beginning in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Now wildfire smoke from Canada resulted in terrible air quality
Speaker 1: in New York for this game, so the league mandated
Speaker 1: two hydration breaks per half. After the game, Spirit star
Speaker 1: Trinity Rodman said, quote, if we have to have a
Speaker 1: hydration break every fifteen minutes, then we shouldn't be playing
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 2: And that's my opinion. But at the end of the.
Speaker 1: Day, there's forty thousand people. It's a whole event, so
Speaker 1: it's really tough. It's just a really hard situation for
Speaker 1: everyone to work around.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Fast forward to Saturday, Gotham was back in action again
Speaker 1: and used a three to two win over the Seattle
Speaker 1: Rain to pass the San Diego Wave for the top
Speaker 1: spot on the NWSL table, with Roosevelt once again scoring
Speaker 1: the game winner, this time in the eighth minute of
Speaker 1: second half stoppage time. More NWSL Lindsay Heaps made her
Speaker 1: Denver Summit debut on Saturday, wearing the captain's armband and
Speaker 1: recording the game winning assist in the Summit's two to
Speaker 1: one win over the Portland Thorns. The game was Denver's
Speaker 1: first at Centennial Stadium, a temporary venue that's being used
Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty seven season while the team's permanent
Speaker 1: venue is under construction. What a moment for Colorado native
Speaker 1: Heaps to be playing in front of her hometown crowd
Speaker 1: to softball. The AUSL regular season concludes tonight with the
Speaker 1: Carolina Blaze hosting the Oklahoma City Spark.
Speaker 2: This one has huge playoff implications.
Speaker 1: After Oklahoma City managed to keep its season alive with
Speaker 1: a win over the Blaze on Sunday, three teams are
Speaker 1: going to qualify for the postseason, which gets underway on Thursday.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bandits and the Utah Talons have already clinched
Speaker 1: their spots, while the Portland Cascade currently set in the
Speaker 1: third play spot. Oklahoma City entered the three game series
Speaker 1: against the Blaze needing a clean sweep, and after winning
Speaker 1: their first two games, they control their own fate heading
Speaker 1: into tonight's regular season finale. Meantime, at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the AOSL standings were the Texas Volts, already eliminated from
Speaker 1: playoff contention, so Sierra Merrow played the final game of
Speaker 1: her legendary career on Sunday, a ten to one route
Speaker 1: at the hands of the Cascade. Sierra's last home game
Speaker 1: came earlier this weekend, opposite sister Sidney, who plays for
Speaker 1: the Oklahoma City Spark.
Speaker 2: Just try not to cry seeing.
Speaker 1: The photo of the two sisters still in uniform, sitting
Speaker 1: on the field together, watching postgame fireworks and taking it
Speaker 1: all in one last time. We'll put that photo in
Speaker 1: the show Notes to Lacrosse, where one half of the
Speaker 1: inaugural WLL Championship matchup is set. The Maryland Charm clinched
Speaker 1: their spot on Friday with the twenty one to seventeen
Speaker 1: win over the Boston Guard, the highest scoring game in
Speaker 1: WLL history. It's likely that the Charm will play the
Speaker 1: California Palms and the championship on August fifteenth, so long
Speaker 1: as the Palms either win their final regular season game
Speaker 1: against the Boston Guard on August eighth, or lose by
Speaker 1: eight goals or fewer.
Speaker 2: All right slices.
Speaker 1: It's been a wild news filled couple of weeks since
Speaker 1: we took off for summer break.
Speaker 2: So you know that, I know that you know that
Speaker 2: that wasn't all you need to know what else happened?
Speaker 1: The WNBA saw it's biggest regular season crowd ever the
Speaker 1: previous record was twenty thousand, seven hundred eleven set by
Speaker 1: the Washington Mystics at Capitol One Arena in DC in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and Canada said hold our Molson because
Speaker 1: a new record. Twenty nine hundred and ninety six packed
Speaker 1: the Bell Center in Montreal to see the Dallas Wings
Speaker 1: beat the Toronto Tempo. Now the all time record still
Speaker 1: stands twenty two thousand and seventy six fans for Game
Speaker 1: five of the two thousand and seven WNBA Finals between
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Mercury and the Detroit Chok at the Palace
Speaker 1: of Auburn Hills. What else happened in the w Well,
Speaker 1: let's see. On July sixth, the Chicago Sky Skyler Diggins
Speaker 1: posted about how she'd be coming off the bench, teasing
Speaker 1: at some tension and saying how she's been good and
Speaker 1: quiet all season despite the team's struggles. And she hasn't
Speaker 1: played since, citing discomfort in her knees stemming from a
Speaker 1: surgery she had last year. Now, whether she can't play
Speaker 1: or just isn't playing, either way, her future with the
Speaker 1: team seems uncertain. Are we headed for another star forcing
Speaker 1: a trade out of Chicago?
Speaker 3: Ugh?
Speaker 1: We don't know for sure yet, but the fact that
Speaker 1: this is happening again is why we can't have nice
Speaker 1: things like I don't know the practice facility that was
Speaker 1: promised for before this season started, or I don't know
Speaker 1: a single Chicago Sky player in the All Star Game
Speaker 1: happening in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the.
Speaker 1: Struggle bus, the Los Angeles Sparks, who have floundered without
Speaker 1: star Kelsey Plumb and are feeling the absence of other
Speaker 1: injured players too, like Cameron Brink, reportedly mutually parted ways
Speaker 1: with GM Reagan Peebly. They've since lost four straight games.
Speaker 1: They did get one dub of another kind, though, former
Speaker 1: vice president Kambala Harris sat court side for a game
Speaker 1: and referred to Neka Ogumakay as Madam President hell of
Speaker 1: a flex. Neka also newly unemployed Kennedy Carter. The Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Aces signed rookie guard Justine Passat, waving Carter to
Speaker 1: make rou now. Carter was shooting sixty percent from the
Speaker 1: field and averaging over twelve points in just under seventeen
Speaker 1: minutes a game, but a social media post complaining about
Speaker 1: coach Becky Hammond having her on a leash, and rumors
Speaker 1: of some tension with the team are presumed to be
Speaker 1: the reason Carter is without a team yet again. Across
Speaker 1: the country. The grounded plane we mentioned earlier isn't the
Speaker 1: New York Liberty's only problem. The Liberty have lost eight
Speaker 1: of their last ten regular season contests, including a loss
Speaker 1: to the Tempo that saw Benigelini Hamilton ejected after tossing
Speaker 1: a shoe lost by johnqwell Jones hitting Toronto's Marina Mabry
Speaker 1: in the back. That sentence was not a mad lib,
Speaker 1: so I'd just say you can keep that viral clip
Speaker 1: of Sabrina and Escu saying what the over and over
Speaker 1: close by for repeated use until New York gets their
Speaker 1: shit together. A team that does have their shit together,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Lynx. On July ninth, the Links best of
Speaker 1: the Connecticut Sun to give coach Cheryl Reeve the WNBA
Speaker 1: record for career regular season wins with three hundred and eighty,
Speaker 1: and a few games later, super rookie Olivia Miles became
Speaker 1: the fastest player in WNBA history to reach four hundred points,
Speaker 1: one hundred rebounds, and one hundred assists.
Speaker 2: She did it in just twenty two games. She's cooking
Speaker 2: speaking a cooking.
Speaker 1: Jess Sheppard cooked up her third triple double of the
Speaker 1: season in a Wings win over the Liberty that saw
Speaker 1: Robin Roberts and Gino Oriema reunited to call the game.
Speaker 1: That duo called ESPN's first ever WNBA game thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: Speaking of thirty years ago, Kitlyn Clark was not born yet,
Speaker 1: and somehow the WNBA not only existed without her, it
Speaker 1: was a massive success, including twenty thousand plus people showing
Speaker 1: up for a Mystic's Utah Stars game. Somebody better tell
Speaker 1: Republican blowhards and right wing journalists that, because they started
Speaker 1: yet another insufferable news cycle about Kaitlin Clark getting fouled
Speaker 1: too much while we were on summer break. In fact,
Speaker 1: eleven members of Congress, led by the Republican Study Committee chairman,
Speaker 1: sent a letter to the WNBA to quote unquote protect
Speaker 1: Kitlin Clark.
Speaker 2: Are we having fun yet, y'all?
Speaker 1: Because first the letter, then a frankly baffling play where
Speaker 1: Clark was defending Chelsea Gray on the block got whistled
Speaker 1: for the foul, and then seconds later inexplicably dropped to
Speaker 1: her knees as if greatly injured, prompting a review from
Speaker 1: the officials for I guess a potential hostile act from Gray,
Speaker 1: but of course the replay showed literally nothing. Clark popped
Speaker 1: up uninjured to scream at the officials, and then a
Speaker 1: few days later she lost her shit on the officials again,
Speaker 1: both midgame and in a postgame presser about an alleged
Speaker 1: knee to the quad on a foul I frankly couldn't
Speaker 1: see despite six times watching the play in soul motion.
Speaker 2: In fact, it kind of looked like she pushed off
Speaker 2: as she went up. Either way, the vibes were bad,
Speaker 2: y'all real bad now.
Speaker 1: Thankfully for Caitlin and people who miss watching and talking
Speaker 1: about actual basketball, she went off at just the right
Speaker 1: time to remind us why she blew up and became
Speaker 1: a megastar in the first place, putting up a career
Speaker 1: high and franchise record forty five points alongside Tennisis in
Speaker 1: a win over the Storm on Friday night, becoming the
Speaker 1: first player in WNBA history to record at least forty
Speaker 1: points and tennisis in a game, and she did it
Speaker 1: in just twenty nine minutes.
Speaker 2: Insane. Unfortunately, the feel goods didn't last long.
Speaker 1: Clark got her sixth technical fowl of the season just
Speaker 1: ninety seconds into Saturday's game, arguing after she didn't get
Speaker 1: a call in a hard screen from John Qwell Jones.
Speaker 2: Now, surely that foul.
Speaker 1: And Caitlin's complaints won't start another news cycle. Oh, it
Speaker 1: already has great and those Republican reps are likely already
Speaker 1: drafting another letter. Cool cool, cool cool, no no deff
Speaker 1: seems like a good use of government time, energy, and resources.
Speaker 2: It's not like.
Speaker 1: We're literally at war with Iran getting murdered by ice
Speaker 1: on the streets, can't afford groceries or gas, are living
Speaker 1: in fear of bagged salads and collectively shitting our brains
Speaker 1: out anyway, while a bunch of shit for brains politicians
Speaker 1: and journalists are trying to use Clark as a cudgel
Speaker 1: for their racist and homophobic agenda, complaining about her being
Speaker 1: fouled too much.
Speaker 2: Chelsea Gray shared the real issue that.
Speaker 1: Should have hands ringing and the powers that be acting,
Speaker 1: an issue that so many other players are dealing with too,
Speaker 1: racist awful attacks from fans after the game, I mentioned
Speaker 1: where Clark dropped to her knees with a phantom injury,
Speaker 1: allegedly caused by Gray The Vegas Star shared a DM
Speaker 1: that read you suck ass ugly ass n word. The
Speaker 1: cender was tracked down and immediately shit canned by their employer,
Speaker 1: Hilton Grant Vacations. So good for Hilton Grand Vacations and
Speaker 1: take a long walk off a short peer to the
Speaker 1: person who sent up meantime, while we spend too much
Speaker 1: time arguing about the quote unquote face of the league
Speaker 1: who is a tremendously talented player but still hasn't yet
Speaker 1: won shit, Nafisa Callier, Dewana Bonner and the actual face
Speaker 1: of the League, Asia Wilson are the subject of a
Speaker 1: new six part ESPN docuseriies called Life in the w
Speaker 1: Super excited about this at premiere July twenty fourth. All right,
Speaker 1: that's enough, Wnba.
Speaker 2: Let's get to golf where South Korea is hi Ron.
Speaker 1: You beat Brooke Henderson in the first extra hole of
Speaker 1: a playoff to win the Evyon Championship, and you shot
Speaker 1: a sixty on day three of the tournament, the lowest
Speaker 1: round ever shot at an LPGA major. On the track,
Speaker 1: friend of the Show, Nikki Hilts took first place in
Speaker 1: the mile at the Prefontaine Classic. Meat using their signature
Speaker 1: late kick to pass three time Olympic gold medalist Faith
Speaker 1: kip Yegun.
Speaker 2: Hilts crossed the.
Speaker 1: Line in four minutes seventeen point four nine seconds, the
Speaker 1: best time in the world this season. Meantime in the pool,
Speaker 1: Summer McIntosh said, this season, how about ever, the three
Speaker 1: time Olympic gold medalists broke the longest standing world record
Speaker 1: in women's swimming, clocking two minutes one point sixty five
Speaker 1: seconds in the two hundred meters butterfly at the Canadian
Speaker 1: Trials in Montreal earlier this month. The previous records set
Speaker 1: by China's Liu Juge in late two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: was set when record after record were being broken by
Speaker 1: swimmers and poly are athane supersuits that were ultimately banned
Speaker 1: starting in twenty ten. They used to think it was
Speaker 1: an untouchable record, Summer McIntosh was like, watch this.
Speaker 2: In tennis, twenty one year old Linda.
Speaker 1: Noskova became the youngest woman to win Wimbledon since twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: defeating fellow Czech Carolina Muhova, claiming the Wimbledon singles title,
Speaker 1: her first Grand Slam trophy. In soccer, US players on
Speaker 1: next summer's Women's World Cup roster will get two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty seven thousand dollars a piece from the outcome
Speaker 1: of the US men's national team in their World Cup run. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a result of the revenue share built into
Speaker 1: their groundbreaking equal pay contract, and it finally allows us
Speaker 1: to say thanks men speaking to men before telling fans
Speaker 1: at the Men's World Cup Final to belieb Ahead of
Speaker 1: the Justin Bieber halftime show, Jason Sadeikis, Brendan Hunt and
Speaker 1: the rest of the Ted Lasso cast descended on Kansas
Speaker 1: City and the Current's CPKC Stadium for a weekend of
Speaker 1: events celebrating the upcoming season of the hit show centered.
Speaker 2: Around a Richmond women's team. I can't wait for this.
Speaker 1: Juno Temple aka Keighley even rocked Casey Current gear and
Speaker 1: apparently there's a storyline in the show about the team.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Angel City fc cowner Jennifer Garner's new show,
Speaker 1: five Star Weekend features a storyline about an Angel City
Speaker 1: player with a little creative license that I'm sure ACFC
Speaker 1: fans will love. There's a reference to the team going
Speaker 1: for a three pete only in Hollywood, but not literally
Speaker 1: in Hollywood at least not yet. We love women's sports
Speaker 1: in mainstream pop culture. More more, more of that please.
Speaker 1: In USLW Soccer our show side, the Minnesota Aurora felt
Speaker 1: to Salmon BFC in penalty kicks in the semifinals with
Speaker 1: a controversial yellow card that resulted in a Salmon Bay
Speaker 1: penalty kick that tied the game in regulation and honestly,
Speaker 1: that was just insult added to jury because the team
Speaker 1: had to travel all the way to the West Coast
Speaker 1: for the semi final round after being in Pittsburgh for
Speaker 1: two playoff games before that, despite being the number one
Speaker 1: seed with a fourteen oh to o record and routinely
Speaker 1: selling out their world class home field Tco Stadium. But no,
Speaker 1: they didn't get to host the game and they didn't
Speaker 1: get to host a playoff game at all.
Speaker 2: Bullshit.
Speaker 1: That being said, congrats to Salmon BAFC who went on
Speaker 1: to win it all. Their crest remains my favorite and
Speaker 1: looks like the landscape of all my retirement dreams. Speaking
Speaker 1: of dreams, last weekend was a dream for the ausl's
Speaker 1: best and brightest as they showed up and showed out
Speaker 1: at MLB All Star Weekend. The inaugural MLBX All Star
Speaker 1: three on three brought together major League Baseball legends, Philly
Speaker 1: sports icons, celebrities, and four athletes unlimited Softball league stars
Speaker 1: for a super entertaining competition that saw Texas volt star
Speaker 1: Rachel Garcia win MVP honors. On another kind of diamond,
Speaker 1: The Women's Professional Baseball League is gearing up for its
Speaker 1: inaugural season, which starts August first. By revealing the team
Speaker 1: names and logos, we got the Boston Hunters, New York Heights,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Queens, and San Francisco fire Bells. There are
Speaker 1: some really cool backstory as to how they came up
Speaker 1: with these names and logos, and you might recognize a
Speaker 1: very familiar voice narrating the wpbl's league and team videos
Speaker 1: for the brand rollout, so go check them out on Instagram.
Speaker 1: A lot of Olympic news while we were gone. The
Speaker 1: IOC announced that ski and snowboard free Ride and Synchro nine,
Speaker 1: a new nine skater format of synchronized skating, have all
Speaker 1: been added to the competition program for the twenty thirty
Speaker 1: games in the French Alps, while removing Nordic Combined from competition.
Speaker 1: Now we mentioned this could be a possibility in a
Speaker 1: previous show. Instead of adding a women's event in the
Speaker 1: Nordic Combined, which is one of the original Winter Olympic sports,
Speaker 1: the IOC instead announced the sport will not be contested
Speaker 1: at all. They also provisionally lifted their suspension of the
Speaker 1: Russian Olympic Committee, allowing Russian athletes to return to international
Speaker 1: competitions for the LA twenty twenty eight Olympic qualifiers.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Olympics, six.
Speaker 1: Time Olympic medalist Jim Nissunni Lee, who's been on a
Speaker 1: break from the sport since the Paris Games, announced an
Speaker 1: official return to competition with her.
Speaker 2: Site set on LA twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Lee was diagnosed with two rare and curable kidney diseases
Speaker 1: in the lead up to the last Olympics, and she
Speaker 1: said recently, quote I didn't really get a full chance
Speaker 1: to I guess compete at my full potential, and I
Speaker 1: think this time around, I want to give myself that
Speaker 1: chance end quote. There's also a documentary about her return
Speaker 1: currently in production. Fellow Olympic Superstar world record holder in
Speaker 1: the four hundred meter hurdles, Sidney mcglauchl and Lavroni took
Speaker 1: a break from the track to give birth to her
Speaker 1: first child, daughter Savannah. Good Luck Curdlin over a floor
Speaker 1: full of legos in three to five years, said finally,
Speaker 1: on the topic of Olympians. This past weekend, rapper hype
Speaker 1: man and public enemy legend Flavor Flav put together a
Speaker 1: four day Las Vegas extravaganza to honor Team USA Olympic
Speaker 1: women athletes. She weekend brought together over one hundred athletes
Speaker 1: for a parade on the Vegas Strip, concerts, dinners, panels,
Speaker 1: and so much more. I have lots to say about
Speaker 1: what was ultimately a wild, incredible, unbelievable weekend, and that's
Speaker 1: coming up with Big Citrus right after the break stick around.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody, and welcome to season three of Good
Speaker 1: Game with Sarah Spain.
Speaker 2: Let's clap it up for ourselves, y'all. We made it.
Speaker 2: We made it.
Speaker 3: Every show can say that. I'm thinking of all the
Speaker 3: great shows that ended after two seasons.
Speaker 2: But here we are.
Speaker 1: We are season three back better than ever, I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you know you can't compete with the original.
Speaker 2: The sequels never live up.
Speaker 1: But I think in our case, it's going to be
Speaker 1: bigger and better than ever.
Speaker 2: Who am I talking to right now?
Speaker 1: Well, if you're new to the show, welcome, There's almost
Speaker 1: five hundred episodes.
Speaker 2: For you to catch up on. But thank you for
Speaker 2: being here and joining us for season three.
Speaker 1: My lovely producers Bianca and Alex. Bianca tell him a
Speaker 1: little bit about yourself.
Speaker 2: Hey, my name is Bianca.
Speaker 4: I joined Good Game in season two, which one of
Speaker 4: our listeners affectionately told me was my rookie season, And
Speaker 4: so now I'm wondering, am I out of my rookie season?
Speaker 2: Since we're now in season three, we'll allow it.
Speaker 3: I think you would now have two service heres, Bianca.
Speaker 1: And we're expecting no sophomore slump. No, no, no, definitely not.
Speaker 3: And in five years you'll be eligible of for free agency.
Speaker 1: Wow, Alex just locked you down for a number of
Speaker 1: seasons you are not allowed to.
Speaker 3: It's kind of crazy in sports that that's how it works.
Speaker 2: It is true anyway.
Speaker 4: I'm not a professional athlete, but I love talking about them.
Speaker 2: I love women's sports.
Speaker 4: I love getting to tell these stories, and I'm so
Speaker 4: excited for this season.
Speaker 2: Alex, tell us about yourself.
Speaker 3: I'm Alex. I've been here since the beginning, and I
Speaker 3: love women's sports and I love the Olympics. That's all
Speaker 3: I prepared.
Speaker 2: Yes, well that's all we need.
Speaker 1: I mean, anyone who listens to the show knows that
Speaker 1: Alex knows more than pretty much anyone about the Olympics
Speaker 1: literally used to be an Olympic researcher, and that both
Speaker 1: of these women love women's sports, which is why we're
Speaker 1: all here. If you did not listen to the recent
Speaker 1: episode we did, it was called how the mostly Vegetarian
Speaker 1: Sausage is Made with big Citrus or something like that,
Speaker 1: go listen to that because we talk a lot about
Speaker 1: a survey that we gave our listeners, why we make
Speaker 1: the show the way we make it, how we decide
Speaker 1: what to put in it, and asking for a lot
Speaker 1: of suggestions about guests and ideas that people want to
Speaker 1: hear this season. Go give that a listen, and it'll
Speaker 1: help you kind of set the stage for what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do here, which reminds me, like, what do we
Speaker 1: want to do here in season three? We don't need
Speaker 1: to talk about what we're killing it out. We just
Speaker 1: need to talk about anything new or bigger or better
Speaker 1: that we want to accomplish in season three.
Speaker 3: Wait, Sarah, are we doing this in Sarah Spain style
Speaker 3: and making it intentions instead of resolutions like we do
Speaker 3: around New Year?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's always best.
Speaker 1: I don't know something about the resolution desk that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a place that things actually get done. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with the intention table, where I
Speaker 1: actually intend to do things and do most of them.
Speaker 1: Which reminds me, Alex, we are coming up on your
Speaker 1: date by which you need to make homemade bread.
Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah, I forgot about. How is it we
Speaker 3: accomplished so much, so much on my Dango card last week?
Speaker 3: I checked off like five boxes on it.
Speaker 2: So amazing me too. I made bread.
Speaker 1: I was outside with my dogs, enjoying the outdoor spaces.
Speaker 1: I had a dinner party. I read so many New
Speaker 1: Yorkers went through the stack, I mean so many of
Speaker 1: my intentions.
Speaker 2: I was in a swimsuit in the sun. I mean
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: I danced in Vegas a lot, which was on my
Speaker 1: Bingo card. I might be done.
Speaker 2: Pack it up. Twenty twenty six. That's it, it twenty six
Speaker 2: is done. I accomplished it all.
Speaker 1: No, this will be our intention table for season three
Speaker 1: and I'll start by just saying mine is very simple.
Speaker 2: I think we're making a great show. I love doing it.
Speaker 1: It is a lot of work, but I feel so
Speaker 1: good about what we're putting out there, so I just
Speaker 1: want more people to hear it. So for me, the
Speaker 1: biggest goal is to get the listeners that we have
Speaker 1: to share it and to find ourselves in more spaces
Speaker 1: where we can find new people to know about the
Speaker 1: show and love it.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: My goal for the year, my intention for the year,
Speaker 3: excuse me, is to finally get some of the guests
Speaker 3: that have been on our most wanted list on the
Speaker 3: show you know who you are.
Speaker 4: That's a good intention, Alex, because mine's kind of the opposite.
Speaker 4: I want to get people on who we haven't even
Speaker 4: necessarily heard of or spoken to, who are key to
Speaker 4: making women's sports you know what it is today. So
Speaker 4: I think between the three of us, we've got a
Speaker 4: hell of a season coming up.
Speaker 2: We've got a hell of a season coming up. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell y'all.
Speaker 1: When I was planning to head out for this Vegas
Speaker 1: she weekend that flavor Flave put on, I wasn't sure
Speaker 1: what to expect, and I thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be a party, which I was excited for, but I
Speaker 1: had no idea how moving it was going to be,
Speaker 1: how educational, how organized and thoughtful and intentional it.
Speaker 2: Was going to be. When you hear flavor flav is
Speaker 2: throwing a party in Vegas, I don't know that you
Speaker 2: expect there to be carefully curated panels of extremely insightful
Speaker 2: people helping athletes think through some of the most stressful
Speaker 2: and difficult decisions of their life. And that's what happened.
Speaker 1: And I could talk about this weekend for hours, so
Speaker 1: I knew I would have to pare it down, so
Speaker 1: I made a top ten list to try to keep
Speaker 1: me slightly.
Speaker 2: Edited in my recap of all the amazing things.
Speaker 1: Please do also go to my insta at Spain two
Speaker 1: three two three, where I am still there's so much
Speaker 1: more I need to post that went down, but I've
Speaker 1: been posting some of the fun stuff we did. Okay,
Speaker 1: speaking of fun stuff, Number ten of my favorite things
Speaker 1: from this she weekend, which, for those who might not know,
Speaker 1: after the US women's hockey team was sort of derided
Speaker 1: by President Trump and he made a joke about it. Howard
Speaker 1: of You're right, derided by President Trump, and he made
Speaker 1: a joke about how no, we have to invite them
Speaker 1: to the White.
Speaker 2: House, and everyone laughed at their expense.
Speaker 1: Flavor Flav, who has been a benefactor for women's water
Speaker 1: polo and later for men's and women's bobsled and skeleton
Speaker 1: at the Games, stepped in and was like, this is bullshit.
Speaker 1: Who wants to go to the White House anyway? I'll
Speaker 1: throw y'all a party in Vegas instead. Start out with
Speaker 1: women's hockey snowballt into over one hundred athletes, mostly women,
Speaker 1: and then some men from the bobs led skeleton and
Speaker 1: said he'd throw them a party in Vegas and it
Speaker 1: turned into this massive weekend called she Weekend.
Speaker 2: So these are my top ten moments from the weekend.
Speaker 1: Number ten was there was so much music, and music
Speaker 1: makes me happy. It makes me cry and dance and
Speaker 1: smile and be so joyful. So getting to see Ed
Speaker 1: Sheeran Montel Jordan did a late night set with Flavor
Speaker 1: Flav was doing all the throwbacks for those who don't
Speaker 1: know him, this is how we do. It is the
Speaker 1: song that you definitely know. Public Enemy, Chuck d and
Speaker 1: Flavor Flame back together on a stage, singing like these
Speaker 1: insane hits that were like Cannon for the Rap Game
Speaker 1: twenty years ago, and they're back on a stage together.
Speaker 1: They remade their song he Got Game into She Got Game,
Speaker 1: which was part of this whole weekend, and there was
Speaker 1: just so.
Speaker 2: Much good music which made me so happy. Sarah.
Speaker 4: I have to ask, because I was following your Instagram stories,
Speaker 4: to which musician did you do the splits on the
Speaker 4: dance floor?
Speaker 2: That was the Backstreet Boys?
Speaker 3: To which musician did you not do the splits too?
Speaker 2: I only did the splits once.
Speaker 1: The dress that I was wearing on another occasion was
Speaker 1: not splits of ropes, but we'll get to that.
Speaker 2: We'll get to the splits that was for Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 1: Another thing that made me really happy, Park MGM second
Speaker 1: floor was turned into this massive headquarters for all the
Speaker 1: panels and conversations and sponsor activations and gifting suites and
Speaker 1: everything else. And one of the rooms was a dedicated
Speaker 1: new Low Room, which is a company that I've mentioned
Speaker 1: on the show before because a couple of the athletes
Speaker 1: we've had on have neu Loo as a sponsor. They
Speaker 1: do pet foods and treats and all the different things.
Speaker 1: They had dogs in there all weekend, a rotation of
Speaker 1: different dogs all weekend to pet and snuggle and take
Speaker 1: a break with and take some stress away. And I
Speaker 1: was so every time I walked by, like, no dogs,
Speaker 1: no dogs, And I had to get the trading cards
Speaker 1: and had to snugle all of them and learn all
Speaker 1: of their names. So between the music and the dogs,
Speaker 1: I was already freaking set before anything else happened.
Speaker 2: But it got even better number eight.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to like a little bit more detail
Speaker 1: about the panels later, but there was one panel that
Speaker 1: was all meant which was new.
Speaker 2: The rest of the panels had all been women.
Speaker 1: It was Joe Louis, who runs Joe Louis Events that
Speaker 1: put on the whole weekend and they've done every big
Speaker 1: thing under the sun and volunteered and did everything for free.
Speaker 2: It was Damien Journey, who.
Speaker 1: Was part of seventy two, and Sonny who's in the
Speaker 1: ownership group for San Francisco's Signal with me, and then
Speaker 1: Hudson Taylor, who we've had on the show before who
Speaker 1: runs athlete Ally And I thought that these men who
Speaker 1: were talking about allyship as strategy instead of a performance
Speaker 1: or a statement were so powerful and what they had
Speaker 1: to say, and it really lived true to Flavor Flavor
Speaker 1: at the top of this whole weekend, which is like
Speaker 1: men deciding to get shit done on behalf of women
Speaker 1: and not being cowards about it and not standing back
Speaker 1: and watching inequity and not doing anything about it.
Speaker 2: All three of.
Speaker 1: These men were awesome for that, But I loved what
Speaker 1: they talked about with This was an energy that was online,
Speaker 1: this anger about what President Trump said, and it turned
Speaker 1: into doing something in the world. And Joe Lewis said,
Speaker 1: for every idiotic thing that someone says, you can turn
Speaker 1: that into an action, like don't just be mad about it,
Speaker 1: figure out how you react to it in a way
Speaker 1: that actually changes things. And then Hudson said, liberation lives locally,
Speaker 1: So every single person that you can touch and change
Speaker 1: in your own community and in your own life is
Speaker 1: the place to start instead of feeling like you have
Speaker 1: to fight every battle online. And so that was like
Speaker 1: the embodiment of this whole weekend was like, we're all
Speaker 1: pissed about this and yelling about what Trump did online,
Speaker 1: and Flavor Flay was like, let's do something about it.
Speaker 2: And then everybody showed.
Speaker 1: Up, all these sponsors, all these people to help, which
Speaker 1: was really really beautiful. Speaking of something beautiful, I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of the weekend Number seven badgering people to
Speaker 1: come on our show. Speaking of some of the people
Speaker 1: that we have been trying to get and haven't, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, Alona mar now that we've spent a
Speaker 1: significant amount of time.
Speaker 2: Together, really would love to have you on the show.
Speaker 1: And also to her agent, hey Rhanne still would really
Speaker 1: love to have Alana on the show. So I was
Speaker 1: very excited to get to be around some of those
Speaker 1: people that we are very interested in having on Number six.
Speaker 2: Women should run everything.
Speaker 1: Rihann and Ellis, who is Flavorflame's manager, started out in sport.
Speaker 1: It's got connected to him through Brent Feldman, who's been
Speaker 1: an agent for women athletes for a long time, when
Speaker 1: he was looking for someone to help out with the
Speaker 1: water polo team. She ended up becoming Flaves manager. She's
Speaker 1: working with Public Enemy as well. She is a Harvard
Speaker 1: graduated frickin' badass. And I'm telling you, not only did
Speaker 1: she pull together all of these people and sponsors and
Speaker 1: events and spaces and flights and everything, tickets, the detail is.
Speaker 2: Where I think women shine.
Speaker 1: So we had this beautiful dinner, and at the dinner,
Speaker 1: there's already a million amazing things, including we all got
Speaker 1: custom Flavor Flave clock necklaces, these beautiful Shinola gold necklaces.
Speaker 2: So we all got a clock to go home with.
Speaker 2: And they're they're small, they're you know, you could actually
Speaker 2: wear them. You're not the giant.
Speaker 1: I did want a giant one, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I wanted one of like the huge ones that takes
Speaker 1: the girl body.
Speaker 2: But they're very they're very subtle.
Speaker 1: But they're walking around giving everyone these beautiful clocks. Then
Speaker 1: after that, as if it wasn't already so special and beautiful,
Speaker 1: they've got birthday cakes for Hillary Night and Mistigue Roe
Speaker 1: because it was their birthday. Right around then, they've got
Speaker 1: a special dessert for Alissa lu to celebrate her for
Speaker 1: winning an SB award the night before.
Speaker 2: Like, they just the detail.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I'm like, if a man remembers your first
Speaker 1: and last name, you're.
Speaker 2: Like, look at you, look at you.
Speaker 1: Really you got the details down, And a woman is like,
Speaker 1: I remember your birthday, all of your siblings' names, your
Speaker 1: kid's birthdays, and this is the anniversary of the first
Speaker 1: time you kissed a boy. Like it's insane what we
Speaker 1: can all keep in our brains at once. And she
Speaker 1: was unbelievable running this whole thing. Number five freaking parade.
Speaker 1: I love a parade all the time, but a double
Speaker 1: decker bus on the strip that I'm on top of,
Speaker 1: throwing flags with Flavorflace face on them and chanting usay
Speaker 1: like there were signs. There were girls with signs that
Speaker 1: said girl power. There are people with like their full
Speaker 1: American flag gear on, like really harnessing the energy of
Speaker 1: Vegas for good. It is a place I mostly associate
Speaker 1: with like a lot of crazy shit, and instead it
Speaker 1: was so wholesome to be going down the strip on
Speaker 1: a bus with like buses in front of me. The
Speaker 1: aces had a parade bus in it, a bunch of
Speaker 1: musicians and dancers and all these people going down the
Speaker 1: strip by like New York New York and the roller
Speaker 1: coaster and all these things with little girls and their
Speaker 1: families and little boys like cheering and getting so excited
Speaker 1: to see all the athletes. It was just like, definitely
Speaker 1: the most wholesome thing I've ever done in Vegas. Okay,
Speaker 1: also at the end of the parade, the I don't
Speaker 1: even know who he was, mayor somebody important in Vegas.
Speaker 3: That's so funny that you say head hacks rules Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: And so the mayor of Las Vegas is, of course
Speaker 3: Mayor Joe.
Speaker 1: And you know what, I just looked it up. The
Speaker 1: Mayor of Vegas is a woman, Shelley Berkeley. So this
Speaker 1: was not the mayor. I don't know who this show is.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to that man. This weekend wasn't about you. Then, okay,
Speaker 1: so I didn't learn your name. But he was cool,
Speaker 1: and he got up there and he gave everybody a
Speaker 1: key to the city, and he announced, like this is
Speaker 1: better than the White House. Who wants to be at
Speaker 1: the White House? You're in Vegas. Vegas is the best.
Speaker 1: This is awesome. And then he said in the best
Speaker 1: part about getting a key to the city is it's
Speaker 1: a get out of jail free card, so you could
Speaker 1: get arrested for anything tonight, and we got you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, this man rules.
Speaker 1: And he gave every athlete a key and gave Flave
Speaker 1: this huge giant key and a proclamation to the city,
Speaker 1: and he even made the joke and He's like, and
Speaker 1: of course this is a weekend all about the women.
Speaker 1: So we're giving the man the proclamation and the biggest key,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Like this guy ruled. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so that was super awesome, and then Public Enemy performed,
Speaker 1: and after that we went to this club thing in
Speaker 1: the park MGM called on the record and all the
Speaker 1: athletes were partying and Flave performed with Montel Jordan and
Speaker 1: he had this like violinist lady. But what was cool
Speaker 1: about that event was my buddies from the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Signal and seventy two and Sonny had gotten a table there,
Speaker 1: and I learned that my new business partners could fucking party.
Speaker 1: And I love to find out that people I'm endeavoring
Speaker 1: on a massive thing with are fun as hell. Holly
Speaker 1: Row and one of the co founders of seventy two
Speaker 1: and Sunny Glenn had a dance off, and Holly Row
Speaker 1: was busting out the freakin' Roger Rabbit, the stanky leg
Speaker 1: like she's got moved for days. They're like, we were
Speaker 1: out late. We were all singing along to every word
Speaker 1: of Montel Jordan and all the covers he was doing,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, these are the people that
Speaker 1: I want to work with. And then bright and early
Speaker 1: next morning, everyone has insane party voice and we are
Speaker 1: dressed and ready for the panels presenting on all these.
Speaker 2: Important, meaningful, smart things, and I was like, this is
Speaker 2: my these are my people, Sarah.
Speaker 3: I'm laughing at this because I'm like thinking about two
Speaker 3: years ago when we started this podcast together, and you're
Speaker 3: looking at me being like, I can party with Alex.
Speaker 3: It's probably not a thought that ever crossed your head
Speaker 3: and not something I'm great at. And you know we've
Speaker 3: made it work.
Speaker 1: We made it work in Italy where every night I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that.
Speaker 2: Place looks so fun.
Speaker 1: Look at that bar overflowing into the street with people
Speaker 1: from every country, and you're like we should, we should
Speaker 1: get on the bus and we should get to bed.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, you're right.
Speaker 1: My friends were like, you didn't party at all, you
Speaker 1: didn't go to and I'm like, no, I didn't have
Speaker 1: a role, I didn't have a rolldog.
Speaker 2: But you're great at many things, Alex. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yes, I wouldn't say partying, but maybe we'll change that.
Speaker 1: During WNBA All Star weekend, sounds like we've got a
Speaker 1: job on our hands, Yank, I'll be the party producer.
Speaker 2: Oh, we already partied together. I already know you. Don't worry, Alex.
Speaker 2: We all take that crown.
Speaker 3: We all be there with my loop headphones making sure
Speaker 3: that the decibel level hitting my ears doesn't get too high.
Speaker 2: Okay, I do wear I do wear earbuds.
Speaker 3: Were audio producers. We have to protect our hearing.
Speaker 2: It's very smart, very smart.
Speaker 1: And I did actually think about you once or twice Alex,
Speaker 1: that if you had been there, you would have been like, what.
Speaker 2: The Sarah, This is how I do my best work.
Speaker 2: Let me cook.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of cooking, number four was spending time with
Speaker 1: all these athletes that we got to cover in Italy
Speaker 1: and getting to know folks that I already kind of
Speaker 1: knew a little bit and liked, like Hillary Knight and
Speaker 1: Britney Bowen Amy Purty. That was super fun to spend
Speaker 1: more just like chill, relaxed time where I wasn't in
Speaker 1: the middle of an interview or trying to get something
Speaker 1: from them or them from me, but also so many
Speaker 1: new favorites, like just really getting to sit down and
Speaker 1: learn about who these people are.
Speaker 2: And loving them.
Speaker 1: Danny Aravich we've had in the show, Brenda Hakabi, who
Speaker 1: were supposed to have on the show and then didn't.
Speaker 1: Who I'm not obsessed with, Kate Delson who we had
Speaker 1: on the show. Evan Bates and Madison Chalk both so nice.
Speaker 1: We'd had Madison but not Evan, and I love talking
Speaker 1: to Evan. We were talking about music and Noah Khan
Speaker 1: and all these different things. Danny O'Shea who Alex You
Speaker 1: and I talked at the Olympics about how his smile
Speaker 1: could like cure world hunger. Actually hang out with him
Speaker 1: in person human Frickin' Golden Retriever.
Speaker 3: Was his smile the same when you see him there.
Speaker 1: More beaming in person, like right in front of your face, dancing,
Speaker 1: singing along to everything, bringing everyone together, like just such
Speaker 1: a joyful person.
Speaker 2: Kelly Curtis and her sister Kitty. It was so funny
Speaker 2: last night.
Speaker 1: At like one point thirty in the morning, we were
Speaker 1: with another person from the Bob Sled Skeleton crew and
Speaker 1: he goes, wait, when did you guys meet And we
Speaker 1: were like yesterday. He's like, oh, this whole night, I
Speaker 1: thought you guys had known each other for years.
Speaker 2: You've been acting like best friends and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, we are a great compliment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just like hit it off so much that
Speaker 1: everybody thought we'd known each other forever. But Kelly and Kitty,
Speaker 1: those are my rolldogs. Boone Niederhoffer and Nick Tucker.
Speaker 2: Dudes, awesome dudes.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the dudes that were invited by virtue
Speaker 1: of being on Flave's bob sled skeleton team and then
Speaker 1: really engaging with and being interested in all the things
Speaker 1: going on for the women over the weekend and listening
Speaker 1: and being thoughtful, and it was really cool to.
Speaker 2: See and the athletes said that.
Speaker 1: The athlete said, we really love this opportunity to hang
Speaker 1: out with people from other events. The only time we
Speaker 1: really cross over usually as the Olympics and we're stressed
Speaker 1: and we're leaving or coming. And they really are hoping
Speaker 1: that this happens more often because they loved having shared
Speaker 1: experiences potentially starting like a WhatsApp or a group where
Speaker 1: they can all talk to each other about how they
Speaker 1: handle things like getting jobs in the off season or
Speaker 1: insurance or retiring or you know, what the next steps
Speaker 1: are in their careers.
Speaker 2: So that part was really cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, number three, the big Friday Night, which was like
Speaker 1: a full day of amazing things leading into a happy
Speaker 1: hour and then a beautiful dinner and then the Backstreet
Speaker 1: Boys experience, where we got to go backstage before the
Speaker 1: show started and meet all of the band members and
Speaker 1: they were genuinely so psyched to meet all these athletes.
Speaker 1: They were so nice, they were so enthusiastic about us
Speaker 1: being there. We had to take photos. Like one of
Speaker 1: the athletes brought at old vhs of the Backstreet Boys
Speaker 1: that was like her prize possession, had them all sign it.
Speaker 1: So this was actually the twenty five year anniversary of
Speaker 1: their big blow up first album, Millennium, and so a
Speaker 1: lot of these athletes, if they're about, you know, twenty
Speaker 1: five to thirty five, it was kind of that young
Speaker 1: age where whatever's on the radio you're just listening to
Speaker 1: over and over again, and so it was so fun
Speaker 1: to see which ones were really like losing their minds
Speaker 1: about it and which ones were like, I don't really
Speaker 1: know who these.
Speaker 2: Guys are, but this is fun.
Speaker 1: Alyssa Loo, for instance, like probably had no clue, but
Speaker 1: she was really interested in the fits that they had
Speaker 1: for the show, and she was taking pictures of all
Speaker 1: of their weird moon boots not looking outfits, so that
Speaker 1: was really fun. But also during the show, first of all,
Speaker 1: this fear is out of control. It is so unbelievably cool.
Speaker 1: But it's massive. Okay, so there's this huge crowd there.
Speaker 1: Everyone is wearing all white except for me because I
Speaker 1: missed the memo and I didn't realize that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to wear all white to this show, and everybody else
Speaker 1: was wearing it and I was wearing black.
Speaker 2: And everyone's in there all white. They're wearing every piece
Speaker 2: of Backstreet Boys lore.
Speaker 1: They're all obsessed, they're crying, they're calling them by name,
Speaker 1: And in the middle of this mess of people that
Speaker 1: are so excited to be there, they take a moment
Speaker 1: during the show bring out an American flag and specifically
Speaker 1: shout out our crew and have the whole crowd go
Speaker 1: crazy for the Team USA athletes and like, for whether
Speaker 1: or not you're into Backstreet Boys, they are a massive,
Speaker 1: massive phenomenon and a massive, massive group and.
Speaker 2: For them to be thoughtful about doing that for us
Speaker 2: was really cool.
Speaker 1: And shout out to Rann and be causeh she like
Speaker 1: grew up knowing how we and that was one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that this all worked out and they helped us,
Speaker 1: you know, make this amazing, amazing night.
Speaker 2: But that was very special.
Speaker 1: And now all of my dms are people who find
Speaker 1: Backstreet Boys content on Insta and then them asking me,
Speaker 1: how did you get to meet them? Why do you
Speaker 1: know them? How do I get this? Can you tell
Speaker 1: Howie this? Can you make sure AJ knows I named
Speaker 1: a star after him? And how do I get him
Speaker 1: the certificate? Like my whole insta is. People like that
Speaker 1: now think I've got the plumb here, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I do, because I end up spending an hour talking
Speaker 1: to the Backstreet Boys bodyguard's wife, so I know everything.
Speaker 3: That sentence got less impressive as I didn't.
Speaker 2: Know where it was going. You know what, though, those
Speaker 2: are the people who know how to get shit done.
Speaker 3: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: Don't underestimate them. Oh my god, and I almost forgot.
Speaker 1: Of course, the shout out from the Backstreet Boys mid
Speaker 1: concert was the best part. But the second best part,
Speaker 1: obviously was the fact that there started to be a
Speaker 1: little dance circle in our area. We were in this
Speaker 1: kind of separate VIP viewing area, and as the dance
Speaker 1: circle started, I'm thinking to myself, like, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of young, spry Olympians.
Speaker 2: Don't get in there.
Speaker 1: You got nothing to offer, And then I remembered I
Speaker 1: do have something to offer for I have one party
Speaker 1: trick and I will keep doing this party trick until
Speaker 1: I can no longer. So I handed Danny O'Shea by beer,
Speaker 1: just like in the memes. I literally said, hold my beer.
Speaker 1: He held it. I dropped down into the split. Everybody
Speaker 1: went crazy. I'll get high fives from all the hockey
Speaker 1: players on my way up.
Speaker 2: Kelly and Kitty Curtis were like, Oh, you're a legend.
Speaker 2: You're a legend. People were talking about it the next day.
Speaker 2: Well that was you with the splits.
Speaker 1: So I just need you all to know I still
Speaker 1: got it, Still got it, okay. Number two the panels,
Speaker 1: This celebration that truly was an education for everybody there.
Speaker 1: The amount of time spent talking about financial webinars and
Speaker 1: what your next step in your career is and how
Speaker 1: do you manage the disappointment of losing.
Speaker 2: And the excitement of winning. It was not just a party.
Speaker 1: The resources and the info for these athletes and the
Speaker 1: quality and caliber of people that were on these Panels
Speaker 1: was so impressive and intentional to me, and they really
Speaker 1: allowed these athletes to make connections. Seventy two and Sunny
Speaker 1: Joe Louis and Female Quotion are all creating two apprenticeships
Speaker 1: for athletes to sign up for to work within their
Speaker 1: company and learn the day to day Chantal president, who's
Speaker 1: this amazing business woman who's also part of the San
Speaker 1: Francisco's Signal, offered them all financial webinars to teach them
Speaker 1: how to manage money and invest. Like at every turn,
Speaker 1: people were truly genuinely like, here is all my information.
Speaker 2: Reach out to me at any time.
Speaker 1: You are the best of us, and you are underappreciated
Speaker 1: and undervalued and underpaid, I.
Speaker 2: Will do this for you for free.
Speaker 1: And it was so amazing to see the athletes respond
Speaker 1: to that and really feel seen and really feel understood
Speaker 1: that they have these fears about what comes after their
Speaker 1: career or how they get by.
Speaker 4: I love to hear that, and I think that it's
Speaker 4: even more impactful that this is like six months after
Speaker 4: the Winter Olympics, because they all have this rush of
Speaker 4: media attention right after the games, and then sometimes you
Speaker 4: don't hear from them or you know, we don't get
Speaker 4: to talk to them, so that for them to have
Speaker 4: this like sustain love and appreciation is amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the fact that it's also happening with
Speaker 3: all of these athletes in different sports together. I think
Speaker 3: through women's sports history, some of the biggest gains that
Speaker 3: we've seen have been because athletes from one sport reached
Speaker 3: out to another sport, to another sport, And so I
Speaker 3: would love to see kind of what happens from all
Speaker 3: of these connections moving forward.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1: Also, you know, Breezy Johnson and almost every panel stepped
Speaker 1: up and had a really thoughtful question and wanted to
Speaker 1: learn about things. Brenna Huckabee and Danny Arevich like, they
Speaker 1: remember they started their own company ahead of the Paralympics,
Speaker 1: so to hear them like wanting to connect with these
Speaker 1: women business women to talk to them about best practices
Speaker 1: for the company they started. Chuck d was in the
Speaker 1: panels and stood up to ask a question about how
Speaker 1: female leaders can make sure that men in their companies
Speaker 1: don't get in the way of them achieving the things
Speaker 1: that they want to achieve, and was like sitting in
Speaker 1: the back of panels full of women and like listening, nodding,
Speaker 1: like very interested in like Chuck d It was so
Speaker 1: like what a just every every part of the weekend
Speaker 1: felt like a mad lib and yet it was so cool,
Speaker 1: which brings me.
Speaker 2: To the final one.
Speaker 1: The man himself Flavor Flave, and someone slid into my
Speaker 1: DMS and was like, I can't believe you're propping up
Speaker 1: this man who has this history, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it when he was on the show.
Speaker 2: Flavor Flave has a very checkered.
Speaker 1: Past, and he has done a lot of things, and
Speaker 1: he has struggled with a lot of things, and he
Speaker 1: is on the other side of drug addiction and alcohol issues.
Speaker 1: He's sober. And you know, I don't know Flavor Flave.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously not hanging out with him all the time.
Speaker 1: But when he came on the show, I specifically addressed
Speaker 1: the idea that if we want people to change and
Speaker 1: get better, we have to let them and like, I
Speaker 1: would never make any excuses for the domestic violence issues
Speaker 1: that he has in his past, or any of the
Speaker 1: violence or crimes or actions that have negatively impacted others.
Speaker 1: All I can speak to is what he has said
Speaker 1: repeatedly over the last years and years and years about
Speaker 1: t to be a better person in changing himself and
Speaker 1: the person that I see in what he's doing now,
Speaker 1: and I want to believe that people can change and
Speaker 1: get better, and so far he's showing that he's someone
Speaker 1: who's trying to do that. He is so dedicated to
Speaker 1: doing good with the influence and the power he has,
Speaker 1: and he cried multiple times throughout the weekend when he
Speaker 1: was being acknowledged by people for the work that he
Speaker 1: had done, when he was being thanked by athletes for
Speaker 1: like the things he showed up for, and you can
Speaker 1: tell he really just wants to use his influence for
Speaker 1: good and at this point in his life, he really
Speaker 1: cares about all of these athletes. And when he was
Speaker 1: told about who they were and how they weren't recognized,
Speaker 1: he stepped in sight unseen, didn't know them. I'm in
Speaker 1: I'll start you a GoFundMe tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Right. That's what he did for Bob's led.
Speaker 1: When the first call came in from Maggie Stephens and
Speaker 1: someone said, hey, Bran Feldman said, five or ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars will literally change her life. It'll help her get
Speaker 1: her family to come see her. The very next day
Speaker 1: he said, I'm not just doing it for her though,
Speaker 1: I got to do for the whole team if I'm
Speaker 1: going to help her.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw about Paris Hilton.
Speaker 1: He reached out to Paris Hilton and was like, Hey, Paris,
Speaker 1: I need some more hotel rooms and I need some
Speaker 1: more points, and she was like, I used to play
Speaker 1: hockey growing up. I love watching USA hockey. Here's tons
Speaker 1: of my Hilton points and you can use them for
Speaker 1: all these athletes and people show up for Flavor Flave
Speaker 1: like that left and right. And the fact that he
Speaker 1: knows that and then uses it for this was so
Speaker 1: emotional because I'm looking around and Brent Felban and I
Speaker 1: actually talked about this, like what is standing in the
Speaker 1: way of this happening and being the norm. It's people
Speaker 1: who don't give a shit. It's men who are used
Speaker 1: to caring about serving other men. It's brands and places
Speaker 1: that have outdated heuristics about women's sports and the value
Speaker 1: of women's sports and women's athletes. It's people who don't
Speaker 1: know the current data about the value of women athletes
Speaker 1: for your sponsorships and for everything you do. It's fans
Speaker 1: who are stuck just idolizing men because that's what they've
Speaker 1: been told their whole lives matters and has value, or
Speaker 1: maybe they're just brainwashed to not see that women can
Speaker 1: be incredible and exciting and fascinating and interesting and powerful.
Speaker 2: But I was like flavor.
Speaker 1: Flavor literally just sent out a tweet like four or
Speaker 1: five months ago, and now this is happening. Imagine what
Speaker 1: some of these massive companies and brands could do if
Speaker 1: they gave a shit. And it made me both really
Speaker 1: inspired by this case study and how easy it will
Speaker 1: be to replicate things like that and do this again
Speaker 1: in the future without it being such a lift for
Speaker 1: everyone that did it, because that's what they want to do,
Speaker 1: they want to repeat it, And also just kind of
Speaker 1: angry that you can see what gets done when people
Speaker 1: care and when they want to do something, and how
Speaker 1: simple it is for some of these brands to activate
Speaker 1: and crush it if they are given the opportunity to
Speaker 1: know who they're showing up for. Evan Shutt, who was
Speaker 1: on our show who's one of the co founders of
Speaker 1: seventy two and Sonny said, and we all really agreed,
Speaker 1: like I think one day we're going to look back
Speaker 1: and say wow, like we were there for the first
Speaker 1: she weekend, Like there's a belief that this is going
Speaker 1: to become something bigger and keep going and bringing athletes
Speaker 1: together in the future. And man, I mean I was
Speaker 1: excited for it as a party and a chance to
Speaker 1: get to meet and spend time with all these athletes
Speaker 1: and make relationships for our show and for life. And
Speaker 1: I came back being like Rhiann and Ellis can plan
Speaker 1: my I already got married, So I want to say
Speaker 1: next wedding, bow renewal, Brad, no plans, no plans for
Speaker 1: second wed Sorry, producer Brad, quality control Brad, what bow renewal, funeral, whatever?
Speaker 1: Like honestly, this woman is incredible and incredible.
Speaker 2: Okay, I went too long. I said I wanted, and
Speaker 2: I went too long. But it was so amazing, you guys,
Speaker 2: It was so amazing. Okay, we gotta take a break.
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Speaker 1: that he'll be taking paternity leave and stepping away from
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Speaker 1: his decision, he said he understands he can play a
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Speaker 1: an important principle. Caring for children is a shared responsibility
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