Watch The Women’s World Cup, Damn It!
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re talking about the Women’s World Cup and why you should be watching it (even if sometimes it’s a little tricky to find). Slate senior supervising producer Daisy Rosario is joined by investigative sports journalist Jessica Luther with a Waves guide to the cup. They discuss what players to look for, why nationalism can sometimes trump misogyny, Megan Rapinoe’s retirement, and why the US women’s soccer team is so good.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves, |
| 0:04.8 | Slight's Podcast about Gender Feminism, and this week |
| 0:08.1 | getting excited for the Women's World Cup. |
| 0:11.2 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing that we |
| 0:14.0 | cannot get off of our minds and today you've got me Daisy Rosario, senior supervising |
| 0:18.5 | producer of audio here at Slate. And later in the show I'll be joined by |
| 0:22.4 | Jessica Luther. |
| 0:23.4 | Jessica is investigative journalist, author, and podcaster. |
| 0:27.1 | Obviously, the Waves is not a sports show, but much like the Olympics, |
| 0:31.7 | when a World Cup happens, people tend to get pulled in and when it comes to the |
| 0:36.3 | Women's World Cup the United States is the most dominant team since the Women's World Cup even started. This year the U.S. women will be |
| 0:44.7 | going for a three-peat. That's right they won in 2015 and in 2019 and if they |
| 0:49.2 | win this year they will be the first team to ever win three in a row. |
| 0:53.0 | Now, my guest today, Jessica, is someone whose work I've followed over the years, |
| 0:57.0 | and we were both at the Women's World Cup in France in 2019. |
| 1:01.0 | She was there covering it for her media gig and I was there just because I wanted to be and I got to tell you it was incredible. |
| 1:10.0 | When I started posting that I was there so many of my friends who do not care about sports at all started |
| 1:16.1 | reaching out. And so that's kind of the spirit of this episode today is, you know, if you |
| 1:21.6 | care about women, if you care about feminism, you're probably going to end up wanting to watch some of this. |
| 1:25.8 | And what should you be watching for? |
| 1:28.3 | And also, something like this is more than just a sporting event. |
| 1:31.9 | It's a world event. |
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