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A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

On Caitlin Clark and White Privilege + Boxer Claressa Shields Chats "The Fire Inside”

A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

The Vox Media Podcast Network

Soccer, Sports, Basketball

4.4611 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, Megan and Sue sit down for an insightful conversation with Claressa Shields, arguably the greatest female boxer of all time, and subject of the inspirational biopic “The Fire Inside.” They, along with the film's director Rachel Morrison, chat about Claressa’s journey to win an Olympic gold medal, her amazing resilience, and her steadfast desire for the film to reflect “the real” of her life story. In SCBVCOTW, Sue shares her thoughts on the Notre Dame vs. UConn game and shares a snippet of WNBA history. Plus, she and Megan respond to a YouTube comment request for a #VibeCheck on Michigan State. Megan and Sue also discuss Caitlin Clark being named Time magazine’s “Athlete of the Year” and why there’s been such a mixed response to Caitlin’s comments around white privilege. Lastly, Megan and Sue will give A Touch More of their thoughts around their final episode of 2024. Happy Holidays! A Touch More: The Podcast is produced in partnership with VOX MEDIA and TOGETHXR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.9

Hey everybody. Welcome back to the show. We are back in New York. Well, Megan's back in New York,

0:36.9

so we are reunited.

0:38.1

We have a great show coming up for you today.

0:40.7

World Champion Boxer, Coressa Shields, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rachel Morrison, are joining us to discuss their new film, The Fire Inside, which tells Clarissa's story of becoming an Olympic champion, something we know a little bit about.

0:54.0

Yeah, I know. I mean,

0:55.1

I know one thing about it. You know a couple more things about it. We just watched it last night.

1:01.0

It was so good. Honestly, it was really nice to see a film about women and women's athletes as like

1:07.2

a feature film, not a documentary. Totally. We're going to get into that more, but it was really amazing to see it, and we loved it.

1:13.6

We're also going to be talking about Caitlin Clark being named Time Athlete of the Year.

1:18.9

There's a lot of interesting and curious responses to that one.

1:24.1

So we're going to get into that.

1:25.5

I'm Megan Rapino.

1:26.7

This is Sue Bird, and this is a touch more. Let's get into it. Okay, the check-in. New college basketball rankings are out. Your beloved Yukon has dropped a little bit. We're going to get into that. Your not-so-beloved Notre Dame has popped up a little bit. Whoa, why are you starting stuff?

1:44.6

Listen, it's not even like that.

1:45.8

I'm just saying that game, we watched it.

1:49.9

That game, most watched Women's College basketball game of the season at 915,000 viewers, the most since 2011 pre-January.

2:00.6

Right. This is not one of those crazy stats that you

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