Hello subscribers to the double X Gabfest. I'm June Thomas. I am here today because I want to introduce a very special treat that we are putting in our feed and that you will hear in just a few minutes after a little bit of blabbin between me and a very special guest.

We today are featuring one of the episodes of a podcast called Upon Further Review, which you probably

know already because it's also the name of

the book written by Mr Mike Pesca the jus with Mike Pesca and I actually have

Mr Mike Pesca here with me today to talk about what we're going to hear.

Hello Mike Pesca.

June, it is very gratifying not only to be here in your feed,

but to hear you describe the tome that I committed to paper

with hard covers as a, what was word used a book a book yes yes yes

yes let a talk not a boot the book but a boot the podcast so you have done this

podcast that is based on the book and the book is a collection of

what ifs right sporting what is sure sure what ifs what ifs what ifs

were good at football what if the Phoenix sons had answered Jesse

Eisenberg's fan letters just to name episodes one and two of the

podcast now there are other what-ifs in the book like what if Muhammad Ali had

gotten his draft affirmant what if Billy Jean King had lost two Bobby Riggs I'll'll give you the spoiler there. She would have come back to

beat him. Yeah, yeah. She would not. Like if she pulls the hamstring in that match, she's not taking

that. It's not over with. But today we're going to hear a very special episode of a

pump further review. Tell us what it's about. This is the journalist Louisa Thomas

who in the book and here on the podcast contemplates the question what if Brandy Chestain's

kick in the 1999 Women's World Cup had not scored the winning goal had gone a

rise so I guess it's about a book but also about a boot.

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