Exactamundo, Dikembe Mutombo
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes you just want to talk about things that make you happy — so Kavitha Davidson, our culture writer at The Athletic, joins Full Time to discuss the second season of Ted Lasso, from appreciating the weekly nature of the show to a new appreciation for Higgins to the show’s embrace of earnestness and subversive feminism.
Follow Kavitha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kavithadavidson
Kavitha’s Ted Lasso review: https://theathletic.com/2719847/2021/07/21/sophomore-slump-not-at-all-the-new-season-of-ted-lasso-doubles-down-on-its-awesomeness/
Our interview with Ben Olsen, new Spirit president: https://theathletic.com/2811768/2021/09/07/ben-olsen-washington-spirit-nwsl/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to full time with Meg Lynn. I'm Meg. You are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the |
| 0:22.3 | Athletic Podcast Network. But actually, while I've got all the latest for you on the newsfront, |
| 0:27.2 | I decided we could maybe use a little lightness this week. And I asked Kavitha Davidson for a check-in |
| 0:32.5 | all about season two of Ted Lassow. So I will give you another warning before we get started, but there are |
| 0:39.0 | absolutely spoilers to the entirety of the episodes that have aired so far this season. If you are not |
| 0:45.0 | caught up, it is definitely worth waiting to listen to this week's episode. But before we actually |
| 0:50.2 | get to the rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support of full-time, |
| 0:54.9 | plus get all of our women's soccer coverage and everything else the athletic has to offer |
| 0:58.8 | on our site and on our app. You can subscribe right now at theathletic.com slash full-time. |
| 1:05.1 | There's always an offer there. It's always one of our best deals. And right now, it's actually |
| 1:08.8 | 50% off your new annual subscription. |
| 1:11.8 | Steph and I are obviously working hard at a lot of NWSL stories right now, but also we're both |
| 1:16.8 | heading to fall friendlies for the U.S. Women's National team this fall as well. I've got a couple |
| 1:21.4 | NWSL trips lined up later on, actually early October. So we're going to have a lot to keep you reading and listening to for the rest of the year. |
| 1:31.1 | We've got expansion draft, all sorts of stuff coming. |
| 1:34.9 | So subscribe right now if you do not already. |
| 1:38.1 | All right. |
| 1:39.1 | The news. |
| 1:39.8 | So one quick hit right off the top this past weekend's NWSL match between Orlando and Houston |
| 1:45.1 | drew 442,000 viewers on Big CBS, which is a pretty good number for the holiday weekend. |
| 1:51.6 | That leads me right into the next item, the NWSL Championship. |
| 1:55.9 | And we have a stadium and we have a time, and there was a lot of discussion about both of these things. |
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