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Extra: Our Interview with Billie Jean King

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 21 July 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Long-time producer Mac Greer joins David once again to discuss and feature our whole interview with tennis legend Billie Jean King.

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0:00.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

0:07.0

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing, delighted that you're spending a little of your weekend with me.

0:16.0

I'm really excited to present this interview from 2002 with Billy Jean King.

0:22.0

That's right, my brother Tom Gardner and I interviewed

0:24.7

Billy Jean King 16 years ago. As a regular listener which I bet you are you

0:29.8

probably know that we featured a quote from her, a clip or two on our last

0:34.4

podcast. It was Blast from the Radio Pass, Volume 2. That's what we did this week and

0:39.5

we had some great quotes from Bob Geldof, Billy Jean King, Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbox, etc.

0:45.6

But we wanted to pull out the full Billy Jean King interview.

0:49.6

Dust it off a little bit and represent it

0:52.1

because I think it's really fun now 16 years later to listen

0:56.4

into her perspective and how the world was back then and her of course reflecting Mac Greer

1:01.6

my friend who's joining me at the mic, reflecting on the world

1:04.5

well before that.

1:05.8

So this 2002 interview, she's talking some about how women couldn't even get credit cards on

1:10.5

their own in the early 70s, for instance, when she was playing tennis against

1:15.4

Bobby Riggs.

1:16.4

Mack, I wanted to ask you a couple questions before we run this interview.

1:20.1

How did this come together?

1:21.1

Well, well back then, this was leading up into Wimbledon.

1:24.7

And so we always try to make the interview somewhat topical, somewhat relevant to what's

1:28.3

going on.

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