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A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

Sydney Leroux and Ali Riley from BFFR on Controlling the Narrative

A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

The Vox Media Podcast Network

Sports, Basketball, Soccer

4.4764 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

A Touch More kicks off Pride Month with Megan’s very scientific theory that you can’t win championships without gay players. We get into some WNBA news, with Kate Martin’s whopping 14 points in six minutes (check out Sue’s interview with Kate on Bird’s Eye View on Friday) and we try to figure out how the Fever will handle its slew of point guard injuries. Then we chat with Angel City FC teammates Ali Riley and Syd Leroux about their podcast BFFR, what it means to control their own narratives, and what they’re looking forward to this season in LA. Stick around for the responses to last week’s “Are you a Megan or Are you a Sue?”-- when does celebrating become taunting? Help us plan for the future of A Touch More by filling out a brief survey: voxmedia.com/survey. Thank you! 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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0:00.0

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0:29.9

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0:35.5

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0:37.9

I sat down with Nicola Adams to explore how appearance-based compliments and body talk

0:42.9

shape our self-worth without us realising it.

0:45.9

In partnership with the Dove Self-Esteen project,

0:48.4

we unpack the tools to change the conversation for ourselves and for future generations.

0:53.4

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1:04.4

As you can probably tell from our backdrops, we're back in Seattle. It is absolutely gorgeous.

1:09.9

And that's because it's June. And Pride Month just, it brings the gorge. It brings the absolute gorge. So we're really excited to be back in Seattle. I'm really excited for Pride Month. And you can't talk about Pride Month without talking about one of the more famous Megan quotes I've ever seen.

1:29.6

I've had some good ones.

1:31.0

You've had some good ones.

1:32.1

This one might be the best.

1:33.9

And I have so many questions.

1:35.3

The quote is, you can't win championships without gays.

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