Making Memories: Lesley Visser

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Sarah talks to legendary sports reporter and true female trailblazer Lesley Visser about her storied career covering the biggest events in sports (Super Bowls, Final Fours, NBA Finals, World Series) and in the world (the fall of the Berlin Wall). Lesley discusses wearing a credential that said no women or children allowed, getting thrown out of the locker room at the Cotton Bowl, the tutelage she got at The Boston Globe, her trick to interviewing Bill Belichick, and why sometimes you have to cross when it says don't walk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Before we get started today, I wanted to tell you about Around the Rim Presents I'm Speaking,
0:05.2	hosted by Lachina Robinson, an interview series focusing on Black women across sports,
0:09.7	entertainment, and culture who are refusing to be silent right now and who want real change.
0:15.0	Episode 1 features a conversation Robinson has with Netflix Chief Marketing Officer
0:19.2	Bozema St. John, and WNBA Player and Activist Natasha Cloud. If you've never heard Bozema
0:24.4	speak, you got to get on that podcast. She's incredible. That's Around the Rim Presents I'm Speaking.
0:30.6	Listen wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to That's What She Said with Sarah Spane,
0:40.4	a podcast about, well, whatever the hell I want, actors and musicians, athletes,
0:45.8	comedians, neuroscientists, wine experts. If I find somebody interesting, I'm bringing them to
0:51.0	you. We'll talk about how they became who they are, how they found success,
0:55.1	battle failures, and how they ended up here talking to me. Hi, I'm Leslie Visser from CBS,
1:01.0	and my dilemma is that I've had too much time to think about stuff like, okay, obviously I'm sick
1:07.3	of empanadas ordering those in, but also I've had a chance to be really annoyed by things in sports.
1:13.8	Like, why do they call it walk-off home run? Like that annoys me because you know what, it's a
1:19.9	celebration. And to call it a walk-off home run, I mean, that's something you do around the neighborhood,
1:24.8	that's hard. And I know I'm going to get enormous pushback on this, but I think it should be something,
1:30.1	you know, congratulatory, something happy, not walk-off home run to win the World Series, Joe Carter.
1:36.7	Okay, so first off, unrelatedly, whenever I hear the word walk-off, I just think of my sweet mom,
1:41.3	who's not that into sports. And she emailed months after reading me a story. Her email was just one
1:46.8	sentence simply, what's a walk-off? So my non-sports-obsessed parents have been learning a lot over the
1:53.3	years by watching and reading my stuff. As for your take on it, walk-off does sound a little boring,
2:00.0	but it's accurate, right? Like, no need to run. Games over. So I'll let you fight the people that are
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