March Madness is for the Girls, Ted Lasso Returns, and a Teenage Sports Prodigy Takes Over ft. Shawn Johnson

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Before Simone and Suni came Shawn Johnson, the Olympic gold medalist who shot to fame during the Olympics 17 years ago. Yup, we feel old too. Shawn joins Blake and Caroline in the studio to talk about fans literally crawling under bathroom stalls to get her autograph, why she couldn’t go back to high school, and her biggest piece of advice to teenaged athletes on the brink of stardom. In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover: March Madness 101 and how to fill out your bracket The Cowboys player beefing with his former teammate Why Blake has secondhand embarrassment over the WAGs drama in San Francisco The return of Ted Lasso (with a much-appreciated twist) A 14 year-old just took the field in a NWSL game (and Shawn has some words of wisdom to share) Shawn’s Instagram: @shawnjohnson Caroline’s Instagram: @cghendy Blake’s Instagram: @blaaakkkke theSkimm’s Instagram: @theskimm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to Well Play, presented by The Skim.
0:06.1	I'm Caroline Henderson.
0:07.2	And I'm Blake Morgan, and today's episode is brought to you by Mass Mutual, a trusted partner
0:11.8	for women looking to plan and protect their financial futures.
0:15.0	We'll explain more in a bit, but first, let's get into the episode.
0:18.5	We have a really busy show to get into today.
0:21.2	We do.
0:24.1	Including a lot of drama in the NFL this week. Drama ma.
0:24.2	I was pretty surprised.
0:25.7	March Malad.
0:26.6	March Madness.
0:27.6	March Maladness.
0:28.5	Yep.
0:29.0	Yep.
0:29.9	March Marmalade.
0:31.6	Malade.
0:32.2	Malad.
0:33.3	Malad?
0:35.3	I was going to say, is sick in French.
0:41.1	I was going to offer education, but then you went, Malady, tips hat.
0:42.1	Sorry, she tipped her hat.
0:48.1	Anyway, March Madness, which this is my first one that I'm going to be really tapped in for, so I have lots of questions.
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