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Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Episode 23: Tamika Catchings

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy and Lynn Olszowy

Sports

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Laughter Permitted is live from the Julie Foudy & espnW Sports Leadership Academy in New Jersey with basketball superstar Tamika Catchings, who is a WNBA MVP and champion, 4-time Olympic gold medalist and founder of the Catch the Stars Foundation. Tamika explains how she turned a hearing impairment into her "superpower," the influence legendary University of Tennessee coach Pat Summitt had on her life and why her non-profit Catch the Stars Foundation is her proudest achievement. Also find out how Tamika came to compete on "American Ninja Warrior" and own a tea cafe in Indianapolis called Tea's Me.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello! Is it me you're looking for? Nice. What's up? It's Julie Fowdy, along with Lynn Ozzawi.

0:10.2

Hi, Lynn Eo. Hi, Julie. What's happening? You know, Jules. Last we left it. You hinted that you had quite the Halloween costume this year.

0:20.8

So what did you go as for Halloween? Well, Lynn, thank you for asking. I'm a little...

0:28.9

Angry that it took me 48 years to discover this costume.

0:36.4

And I went as a human whoopee cushion.

0:43.4

Yes, a human whoopee cushion.

0:48.0

This is my costume for life. I mean, it really...

0:54.4

really speaks to me and speaks to everything I'm about. I'm about toilet humor.

1:03.8

I mean

1:05.8

really, it took me 48 years and I think I'm gonna be it for life. Like every single Halloween, this is me.

1:13.1

I'm a whoopee cushion. Oh, yeah, you as a human whoopee cushion. It's so unbranded and

1:19.7

you texted me a picture of it and when I first saw it, I just thought you had really outjoolied yourself.

1:27.5

And then you saw Izzy's costume and we're in thought, oh, Izzy's even better than her mom.

1:34.1

Oh, 100% Izzy crushed. She was Sia. I do have a follow-up question for you though, Julie.

1:40.6

How in the world did you even know a whoopee cushion costume existed?

1:47.2

So great question, capital J journalist.

1:52.0

My friend, a mom on Izzy's soccer team, we were having

1:58.4

a outing and she said, oh, I can't go to that because I was emailing all the moms on the soccer team.

2:04.5

And she said because we have our little annual family

2:07.7

Halloween party going on and

2:10.0

and she said, and I can't miss my dad as a who as a human whoopee cushion. And I said,

2:15.3

excuse me. What did you say your dad was? She goes, a human whoopee cushion.

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