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A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

The First Gentleman (of A Touch More)

A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe

The Vox Media Podcast Network

Soccer, Sports, Basketball

4.4611 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of A Touch More, Megan and Sue are joined by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff—the first-ever gentleman on the show! They discuss everything from his partnership with Vice President Kamala Harris to how their roles challenge traditional gender norms. The Second Gentleman shares his thoughts on supporting women’s rights, including reproductive freedom, and the importance of men stepping up as allies, especially during this election cycle. Plus, his favorite moments representing the U.S. at the Women’s World Cup, the Ella Fan Club, and Sue’s major issue with his March Madness bracket choice. Megan & Sue also react to half of the WNBA’s coaches being fired and share what it could mean for players like Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. Lastly, don’t forget to tag Megan, Sue, and A Touch More with your best look-alike Halloween costumes. 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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0:31.4

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to a touch more. We have a very special guest today.

0:37.4

Second gentleman, Doug

0:38.5

M. Hoff is joining us on the show. We're going to share some of our thoughts about the election,

0:45.3

which is, whoof, slowly approaching. So looking forward to that, I think, not. We've also got a new,

0:52.9

are you a Megan or are you a Sue? This one, I feel like

0:56.5

is going to say a lot about people. The are you a Megan or are you Sue? Yeah. No, it's going to.

1:00.7

There's a line in the sand. There's a line in the sand here, people. But before we get to all

1:05.5

of that, of course, we got to check in. Okay. Sue, a lot of acts has fallen in the WMBA.

1:13.0

We have six head coaches that have been fired, two GMs that are not continuing in their

1:20.8

current position, the fever, the wings, Chicago Sky, the LA Sparks, Atlanta Dream, Washington Mystics, all without a head coach.

1:32.0

Tell us what you think. Are the expectations changing? Was it like, is it just happened that

1:38.8

they all getting fired at the same time? Like, what's happening? That's a lot. That's half the league.

1:45.7

Yeah, it is a lot. So I just read something or came across something where knowing, Noelle Quinn,

1:50.7

with the storm, is like the second longest tenured coach with four years. It's like, it's crazy.

1:57.8

I don't know exactly what's happening. I think for each team, the reasons are different. So it's not like there's some, like, epidemic hitting the WMBA. But you bring up expectations. I do think that it's getting, it's different now. There's a lot more eyeballs, which means a lot more critique, which means a lot more pressure.

2:17.2

Yeah. For everybody. So I think a lot more critique, which means a lot more pressure. Yeah.

2:18.4

For everybody.

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