Billie Jean King: Icon, Champion, Trailblazer

Squawk Pod

CNBC

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4 • 494 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In an extended interview, sports icon and 39-time Grand Slam champion Billie Jean King discusses the 2021 U.S. Open Tennis Championship amid pandemic and her autobiography, “All In.” As more and more professional athletes speak out about mental health in sports, King considers her own experience with mental health, the media, and activism. In a conversation exclusive to Squawk Pod, Joe Kernen shares why he finds her journey so inspirational and emotional, and underlines her role in pushing all of society forward. Plus, once again, a dance on Tesla’s stage is making headlines.

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0:00.0	Bring in show music please.
0:03.0	This is Squawk Pod.
0:05.0	I'm C NBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:08.0	Today on our podcast, Billy Jean King.
0:10.0	I have a saying that pressure is a privilege because I grew up dreaming about playing at Wimbledon and I always try to ask myself,
0:17.0	am I going to make pressure a friend or a foe?
0:20.0	The tennis champion activist and trailblazer.
0:23.2	She really is iconic.
0:24.4	That's why she gets mentioned in the same vein with Muhammad Ali.
0:28.0	A conversation spanning the Olympics, her legacy of activism, and speaking up in sports.
0:33.0	Mental health right now with Naomi Osaka speaking up and Simone Biles during the Olympics.
0:39.0	I think it's good that we own it and we speak about it.
0:42.0	Plus the rest of the news that got on... It's good that we own it and we speak about it.
0:43.0	Plus the rest of the news that got us squawking, Johnson and Johnson's making moves, and
0:47.9	dancing humans dressed like robots, just another day at Tesla. This is the PT Burnham part of the job that
0:54.9	Elon Musk is a master act. It's Friday August 20th 2021 Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:01.6	Good morning and welcome to Spockbox here on
1:04.0	on the Melissa Lee along with Joe Kernan.
1:06.0	Becky and Andrew are off today.
1:08.0	That was not a real robot by the way,
1:10.0	in case you're wondering out there.
1:11.0	Johnson and Johnson, because of that company's vaccine.
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