#128 Battle of the Sexes + Interviews: King, Stone and Carell

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🗓️ 23 September 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Battle of the Sexes + Interviews: King, Stone and Carell

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The electrifying 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King (played in the film by Emma Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (played by Steve Carell) was billed as the "Battle of the Sexes" and became the most watched televised sports event of all time. The match caught the zeitgeist and sparked a global conversation on gender equality, spurring on the feminist movement. Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposites sides of a binary argument, but off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. With a supportive husband urging her to fight the Establishment for equal pay, the fiercely private King was also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, while Riggs gambled his legacy and reputation in a bid to relive the glories of his past. Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis courts and animated the discussions between men and women in bedrooms and boardrooms around the world.

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:02.0	You're Rieka belly cheese.
0:03.0	It's Bobby Riggs.
0:04.0	I had a great idea.
0:05.0	Male someone is pig versus hairy-leg feminist.
0:08.0	You're still a feminist, right?
0:09.0	I'm a tennis player who happens to be a woman.
0:11.0	Go hang up. By the way, I shaved my legs.
0:13.0	Really Jean King, already a champion of women's rights as now the most successful female player of all
0:20.0	time.
0:21.0	Welcome to the Now-Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zang. We're going to be talking
0:25.2	about tennis today. We're going to be talking about the movie Battle of the Sexes.
0:30.0	Because the biggest sporting event in 1973 wasn't the Super Bowl or the World Series or even
0:37.1	the NBA finals.
0:39.4	The biggest sporting event that year was the Battle of the Sexes. A tennis match that pitted the top
0:44.6	player in the women's game, Billy Jean King against former men's number one
0:49.4	Bobby Riggs and event which inspired the new film Battle of the Sexes starring Emma Stone and
0:55.3	Steve correct.
0:56.3	People still know me mostly because I played Bobby Riggs.
0:58.4	We had millions of, we were prime time television, Title IX had just been passed the year before.
1:03.6	There was a lot of attention, but why?
1:06.0	Because I was playing against a man.
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