The Battle of the Sexes
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Back in 1973 a male chauvinist played tennis against champion Billie Jean King. This is that story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck. It's just the two of us. |
| 0:20.5 | And that's great, because I'll be playing the role of Billy June King Josh and there's Chuck. It's just the two of us. And that's great because I'll be |
| 0:21.8 | playing the role of Billy June King and Chuck's going to play the role of male chauvinous |
| 0:27.0 | pig Bobby Riggs. Oh man. Take it, Chuck. Hey, before we get going on this one, I have a quick |
| 0:33.5 | shout out. And this is coming out a couple of days after I did this because we're cutting it so close because of our week off last week. |
| 0:40.8 | But that makes me happy because I was asked, a friend of mine's son, his name is Royce. |
| 0:47.8 | He is a student, a junior at Midtown High School here in Atlanta. |
| 0:51.2 | Nice. |
| 0:51.8 | And he has a teacher, Ms. Smolko, who is a long-time stuff you should know listener. And when Royce told Ms. Smokko, like, hey, I know that guy. We're buddies. We got a hogs games together. She kind of flipped out and was like, oh, my God, I wonder if, like, would he be interested in helping us out with our podcast program? Oh, cool. |
| 1:11.3 | And they set it up via email and I spent yesterday, which was in our world, Monday, |
| 1:19.4 | at Midtown High School addressing the junior class, about 200 kids. |
| 1:24.8 | And I got to say, man, it was an incredible experience. The students were into it. |
| 1:32.0 | They were engaged. They had great questions. They had great answers. They were, you know, a lot of it was |
| 1:38.7 | sharing, you know, what they're doing with this podcast project, which is based off of like stuff you |
| 1:42.6 | should know style stuff, |
| 1:49.2 | which was super cool, like these real philosophical questions that they're digging into and taking opposite sides and debating and they were seeking advice. |
| 1:54.6 | And it was just, it was an incredible experience. |
| 1:56.5 | And I just, I left like on a real high about Gen Z and, like, where our future is headed. |
| 2:05.3 | And it was just awesome. |
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