Marion Jones on Humbling Moments, Second Chances, and Special Forces
Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen
Headgum
4.7 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Five time Olympic Gold Medalist Marion Jones joins Rachel and Olivia today where they discuss humbling moments, social media etiquette and her time on Special Forces which is now airing on Fox.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to broad ideas. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, Olivia Newton, Alan. |
| 0:10.6 | Jeff calls me Olivia Allen, Eglarepo. |
| 0:14.7 | Oh, I love that. |
| 0:17.2 | That's great. |
| 0:18.4 | We have Marian Jones today. |
| 0:39.9 | Just want everyone to know that we recorded this interview a long time ago. We also want to let you guys know that we will be back next week with our regular scheduled posts. Thank you to everyone who's reached out checking in on us. We are all safe and deeply appreciated. |
| 0:44.6 | And we will get back to our post next week. |
| 0:45.8 | Thanks, everyone. |
| 0:47.6 | Let's talk to Marion Jones. |
| 0:53.3 | Sometimes when the world feels insane, you can take a little peek inside of Rachel's little brain. All these thoughts |
| 1:02.2 | are swirling round and round inside to join us on this journey as we take a little ride. |
| 1:12.3 | We'll talk about dogs and kids and things. |
| 1:15.5 | We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings. |
| 1:18.6 | We'll talk about boys that'll make you cry. |
| 1:21.7 | We'll talk about death because people die. |
| 1:26.5 | We don't do any of that. I feel like this is like, you feel like my long legs. You're long legs. My daughter has long legs. And so, and I do not. Oh, there we go. We, I do not have that. Blessing. How tall are you? I'm only five, too. Yeah, but my daughter's legs, like, they go for days. Yeah, they're really long. |
| 1:45.0 | They're really long. |
| 1:46.6 | Actually, I do want to talk to you about it. |
| 1:42.5 | We bring the, um, Mike. What is her projected height? I don't, you know. Do you think that's accurate? Yeah, do you think that's accurate? I mean, if they do it with your case, 510, he's probably not going to be 5-2. Right. So I'm saying like, you find the average. |
| 1:43.6 | Not that five, two. |
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