#SeAcabo: Spain’s World Cup reckoning

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Saying “it’s over,” Spain’s World Cup-winning women are using an unwelcome kiss to try to end sexism in sports. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah with help from Jon Ehrens, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Laura Bullard and Hady Mawajdeh, mixed by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On Friday, Misa Rodriguez, a player on Spain's national footy team, posted a cartoon on Twitter.
0:11.0	It's got a little girl with her foot on a ball looking up at her grandmother, and she asks,
0:16.0	Grandma, tell me how you won the World Cup.
0:28.0	We didn't just win the World Cup, little one.
0:31.0	We won a lot more.
0:34.0	She captioned the cartoon with,
0:37.0	It's over.
0:41.0	Spain's women's team defied all the odds and won, and they're pretty sure they're about to win again.
0:49.0	That's coming up on Today Explained.
1:00.0	Policy can get controversial, and it turns out no topic is off limits when it comes to the back and forth.
1:07.0	It's funny because on the one hand you think about like,
1:10.0	it's about kids and food, so why should this be controversial?
1:13.0	On the other hand, like, it's about kids.
1:15.0	It's about food.
1:16.0	Of course it's controversial.
1:19.0	School lunch debt.
1:20.0	How we got it and how to fix it.
1:22.0	That's this week on The Weeds.
1:30.0	I believe my show passes to Harry Milwaukee.
1:33.0	Harry passes to Nolo King.
1:35.0	She cuts.
1:36.0	Oh, my.
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