The Battle of the Sexes with Julie Kliegman

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Sarah teams up with writer and editor Julie Kliegman—author of the hotly anticipated book MIND GAME—to look back at tennis's Battle of the Sexes, between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs (aka the Libber and the Lobber). No pigs were harmed in the making of this episode or in the Houston Astrodome on September 20, 1973.

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0:00.0	I guess I feel ultimately like America was tricked into watching a woman do something other Sarah Marshall, and today we are talking with Julie Cleekman, our tennis
0:25.6	correspondent, about the Battle of the Sexes. We are so excited that our humble show
0:31.9	now has a tennis correspondent and we are extra
0:35.2	excited that that correspondent is Julie Cleggman who we last heard from in a
0:40.4	wonderful episode about Renee Richards and the greater history in context of trans athletes and American sports.
0:49.5	We are continuing our exploration of gender and sport in this discussion of the Battle of the Sexes,
0:57.6	the world famous tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billy Jean King. This was an episode I was really excited to do
1:06.0	because this is one of those totemic events in 20th sanctuary American history
1:10.2	that I for one and I'm sure many of you grew up hearing about and a story that to me has all of the elements that make sports narrative so fascinating because we are watching Americans watching two people who are playing tennis but are also representing the hopes and dreams and
1:29.6	bigotry of everybody watching them and I will go on record saying that tennis is a very
1:34.8	exciting sport but this made it even exciting her. This was a really fun episode to
1:41.4	record I'm so happy to share it with you and I am also so happy to tell you that you're wrong about will be at San Francisco Sketchfest. It's coming up next month and Chelsea Weber Smith and I will be performing February 2nd at the Great Star Theater in San Francisco at 7 o'clock.
2:00.0	You can find more information about that at SF Sketchfest.com and we'll have a link in the
2:05.8	show notes for you. I hope we get to see you there. And by the way, happy New Year's. This is our first episode of
2:12.0	2024. I am so excited to begin another year of stories and questions and terrible jokes and we are also excited that you are here with us.
2:25.0	So let's go play some tennis.
2:27.0	Welcome to your wrong about the podcast where we tell you the story behind the
2:38.6	Ms magazine covers. With me today as I live and breathe is Julie Cleekman.
2:45.0	Hello Sarah.
2:47.0	Hello, Julie, how are you?
2:49.0	I'm doing great.
2:50.0	How are you?
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