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The LOOPcast

BONUS: What Is a Woman Mystery Swimmer In Is Ready To Tell-All: Interview With Paula Scanlan

The LOOPcast

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Ever wondered who the shadowy figure in the smash-hit documentary “What is a Woman?” Her name is Paula Scanlan, former simmer at Penn Univeristy and ex-teammate of Lia Thomas. She shares how she got on the documentary, why she decided it was time to come out publicly to protect women’s sports, and how her Catholic faith guided her through bullying, harassment, and even death threats. Did you know…LOOPcast is on your favorite podcast platform. Subscribe on Apple, Google Podcasts, or wherever...

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0:00.0

So if you actually go watch the documentary, my side profile view, and if you turn the brightness up on your screen, you can tell that it's my face.

0:08.3

And there was a Twitter thread where they went through the roster pictures of all the girls in the team.

0:12.1

And somebody was like, I am no scientist, but 100% it's this girl.

0:20.6

Music All right, everyone. Welcome back to the Loopcast, where we talk faith, culture, and

0:35.1

politics from a Catholic perspective. We are becoming

0:37.8

the swimming podcast. We have our second swimmer on the program. Her name is Paula Scanlan. You

0:42.7

might recognize her silhouette. It was on the What Is a Woman documentary. She has now decided to come out

0:47.9

public and has taken the time to sit down and talk with me today. Paula, thank you so much for coming

0:52.4

on the show. Thank you for having me.

0:54.8

Of course. So what really, the moment where we knew, okay, we got to get around the loop cast,

0:59.4

was we saw your interview with Matt Walsh when you came out publicly. It was excellent. One thing that

1:04.2

you dropped there was that you were Catholic. Not only Catholic, you said devout Catholic. And so as soon as I saw that, that piqued my interest, I think we were talking a little bit earlier.

1:12.4

Did you mean to even let that slip?

1:14.2

Or was that something you intentionally came in saying, yes, I'm going to tell that.

1:18.0

Yeah.

1:18.5

So definitely not something I had planned.

1:20.9

Again, I know that even in a what is a woman documentary, Matt didn't even bring in the fact that he's Catholic.

1:26.4

So I know Matt is Catholic, obviously.

1:29.5

And so I never really intended to bring it in, but it just came over me.

1:32.5

It came up.

1:33.3

And Matt really did change his entire facial expression when that did happen that you

1:38.4

guys obviously couldn't really tell from the video.

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