June 5, 2025 • 29 mins
The math isn’t mathing.
Sexism is in the air at Roland-Garros. For the second straight year, no women’s matches have been scheduled at night at the French Open, relegating high-profile matches to morning slots where there are fewer fans in the stands, and crucially, fewer viewers across the pond. On today’s episode of The GIST of It, co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz dig into this prime-time gender gap and all the fun storylines you probably missed on the women’s side.
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Sexism is in the air at Roland-Garros. For the second straight year, no women’s matches have been scheduled at night at the French Open, relegating high-profile matches to morning slots where there are fewer fans in the stands, and crucially, fewer viewers across the pond. On today’s episode of The GIST of It, co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz dig into this prime-time gender gap and all the fun storylines you probably missed on the women’s side.
This episode was brought to you by Amazon Business, the ultimate partner for smart business buying. Amazon Business offers a one-stop shop for all of your business needs, helping companies of all shapes and sizes simplify their purchasing process. Learn more by checking out business.amazon.com today.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's up, justers, Welcome or welcome back to another episode
of the Gist of It.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Today's Thursday, June fifth. The Warrior co host.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm Alan Hissla and I'm Steph Rott's.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And today's podcast episode might be a little bit faster
than usual because Steph just told me she has some
vacuuming to get to and it's very important and on
a timely manner, So we might be trying to zoom
through things today so Steff can get back to her
real life.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh my god, you're so cruel.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I know, you know what. Deep down? So I am
an older sister.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, and I love nothing more And I love Leah
so much, my little sister so much. She's my best friend.
I love nothing more than annoying Leah. I can't help it.
It's in my bones, it's in my DNA, and I
think for certain people and for certain friends too, I
love annoying them. And so I'm so sorry it's a
toxic trade of mine. But I think it's something that
(01:01):
I inherited as an older sibling.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
That's so fascinating.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Because I was listening to Jocks and Jel's the Pahl Podcast,
and they're talking about how their dynamic is because Tessa,
one of the hosts, is a younger sister and Julia
is an older sister, and how that manifest in their
dynamic and you're the older sister.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I'm the younger sister.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Wait, that's so funny.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Do you think that manifest in our dynamic? I mean
probably teasing me? So perhaps, yeah, we do tease each other.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Perhaps, I don't know. I feel like we're not. Neither
of us are the quintessential older or younger sibling.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Though you're too chill to be an older sister that is.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And also I don't have I have my shit together
at work. Outside of work, my shit is the opposite
of together, and so I'm not you know, the whole thing. Oh,
the older sister is getting all the presents for the
birthdays and parents anniversaries and all that sort of stuff.
Never in my life that is Leah's responsibility, you know, really,
Oh my god, she knows it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I wish I could pay Leah to be my EA.
But one day we'll get there, maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
But do you think that would be good for your relationship?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think she would love it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I think it'd be better for our relationship because she
would be like, this is how I want you to act.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
This is how I want you to show up today.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Sorry for the little sorry, sorry, sorry for the little
dig but I had to Okay, But all that aside.
Today we're doing what the JUST does best, and that
is providing equal coverage for men's and women's sports and.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Calling out some bullshit and I love this for us.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
In case you missed it, and you very well may have,
the French Open finals are this weekend, and for a
little bit of context, this is a huge milestone in
the tennis calendar rolland Garos is the second major of
the season and the only one on clay, and so
that's where they slip and slide and they're on the
red court.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And this year we noticed something very strange about the scheduling.
No women have played in prime time night sessions and
unfortunately this is nothing new at the French Open.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Are absolutely fabulous. Team did a little digging and turns
out it's been going like this for years. So we're
going to detail in this podcast exactly how long it's
been going on. So we're going to give you the
receipts and then we're gonna speed things up and actually
give you a breakdown on what's actually happening at the
French Open as well.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So it might sound like, Okay, you guys are talking
about women only this podcast, but the reason why we're
talking about men and women is because I want to
call an audible because right now we have to talk
about what's happening at the French Open. It just feels
totally up our alley. But what's also really up our
alley is that the NBA Finals is going on in
(03:38):
the Stanley Cup Final famously without an S by the way,
so if people say NHL Finals or Stanley Cup Finals,
it's Stanley Cup Final, no S. And that's something that
I've learned while working at the GIST. So NBA Finals
in Stanley Cup Finals final is going on.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And for this audible segment of the podcast, I want
to give a little preview to each of these and
in particular stuff. I am so excited for the Stanley
Cup Final. It is actually happening as we are recording
right now, game one. So we don't know what happened
in the first game, as Steph and I like to say,
google it, but it is between the Edmonton Oilers and
(04:17):
the Florida Panthers, and this is a rematch of last
year's Cup Final with the Pan where the Panthers won
in Game seven, And so it just has me stuff
so fucking fired up to be able to see this
rematch again. There's something about budding rivalries and rematches that
just gets me so excited. Edmonton is trying to break
a thirty two year title drought, not for the franchise
(04:40):
but for all of Canada, where as in the meantime,
Florida is trying to become just one of I think
three teams that can win back to back titles since
the New Century. So there's a lot of storytelling in this.
But one thing stuff that I message our producers before
we started recording was I really wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Two rats, two little ratty ratty rats who are.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Playing, and that is Brad Marsham of the Florida Panthers
and Corey Perry of the Edmonton Oilers.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The reason why I called these two.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Rats is because they are players where it feels like
their job is to get under your skin.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's to literally bug the other team.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You might know Brad Marsham for being on or marshand
if we want to anglicize it, for being on the
Boston Bruins. And Steph he's known for licking players faces,
like we've talked about him on the podcast before, licking
players faces. But one thing about both of these players,
they're really hard to like. You just they're really hard
to like. But they're both veterans, and they both are
(05:43):
such game changers that you love it when they're on
your team and otherwise you absolutely hate that they.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Are on the other team and when they're on another team.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But they are the two biggest rats and the two
most effective people, I would say in the game and
the postseason. I really do think it's gonna end up
being this like Corey Perry Brad Marsham like battle in
the Stanley Cup Final, and I cannot wait to watch it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Who do you think is going to win?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I have no idea in this series. Normally I have
a horse who I would say I feel like I'm
attaching my cart to, but I truly don't know. I
would like to think that Edmonton can win and that
they're in a better place, especially because they have homice
advantage this year, but Florida is just so good.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They are playing such good hockey that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
They've proven that they could shut down some of the
best offenses in the league.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And so Edmonton's going to have to try something new.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And some of the best offensive the league. And Connor
McDavid for the Edmonton Oilers.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Exactly, and then Seth, let's talk about basketball.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, so we do have to talk about the NBA Finals.
I can plural that one, right, I approve. Okay, thank
you so much. That's gonna be Oklahoma City Thunder or
Okay See versus Indiana Pacers. Game one starts tomorrow. If
you're listening to the podcast, the date comes out, which
is Thursday, June fifth, at.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Eight thirty pm Eastern time.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We do have to I know we talked about the
drought with Canada with the NHL, but we do have
to talk about Canada one more time. I'm so sorry
with these NBA Finals because there are four Canadians in
the finals for the second year running, and they're split
up amongst the teams too.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's so cool and I think too.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
A former Toronto Raptor, Pascal Siakam, is playing for the Pacers.
He actually won the Eastern Conference MVP in the like
championships in the Eastern Conference Championships there, which is so
cool to see someone I think he only started playing
basketball at eighteen, which.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is so I love his story. I love his story
and Fredman story, but bias because for Rapper.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But if you if y'all aren't familiar with Pascal Siakam,
and I feel like so many people aren't because it's
not like Toronto is a huge market for basketball. It's
not like Indiana is a huge market for basketball. Would
strongly encourage and reading his story and learning more about
his story, I felt so inspired by because it's one
of those things where it's like you can start something
(08:07):
at any time and find joy in it and potentially
be good at it and your life could change.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What a beautiful, beautiful story. Now let's talk, perhaps, yeah,
beautiful story for one of those teams. Who do you
think is going to win?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I think that okayc should run away with it, shakee
Fields is Alexander so good? But at the same time,
I think everyone is surprised that the Pacers are actually
in the finals, and so you can't count them out.
But if I was a betting woman, which I am
and I will be I'll be betting on OKAC. Shout
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
As mentioned, today's one Big Story is all about the
French Open aka Rolling Garos, which is tennis's second major
of the year. It is a big deal not only
because it's the only major played en clay, but also
because of its prestige that comes with winning it. I
will say I got to visit Rolling Garros during the
Olympics last year stuff and it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Changed my life.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's such a cool stadium, such a cool venue in
place that if anyone ever has the opportunity to go,
I very much recommend you to take it. The encored
action so far has been thrilling. I have been watching
it well, I've been at the gym subtleflex every morning.
And in just a few minutes we'll get into all
of the women's highlights you may have missed because the
(10:06):
women's side of the tournament is not happening in prime time,
not a single match.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So let's talk about why that is.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Mm hmmm. Perhaps we need to talk about sexism.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Because it's perhaps we do.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Perhaps we do because it's not making enough headlines. As
we know all too well, it's not the first time
women's sports has to deal with unfair scheduling and broadcasting inequities.
But in twenty twenty five, it's just so disheartening that
we still have to talk about this that.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Here we are yet again.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Once we've sorted through the unfortunate sexism that's plaguing the
French Open, we'll catch you up on everything that you
may have missed while the world's best have been hit
in the court in the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So let's talk about first the sexism, and before we
get into everything, we do our best to pronounce names
properly correct. We tend to actually make a lot of
names sounds sound French when they're actually English. Oftentimes we
add a little something to them and these are French
names and we'll try our best, but we're probably gonna
(11:10):
say them wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Thank you for that premise.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So yeah, that's I just want to like preface that
for everybody. We're trying our best, but we are not
good at accents at the end of the day. So essentially,
this French open sexism has come to light and it's
been happening for a couple of years, and there's been
some really great reporting from the press, in the press,
in the post match press conferences, especially from some specific
(11:35):
female reporters that have been asking really hard hitting questions
to the French open organizers. And in one of those
press conferences, they really went at the president of Francis
Tennis Federation, g Morettin, gil Gio Morettin, and she is
a woman, and in her response to basically being like,
(11:56):
why aren't you putting women's matches in primetime, she said, quote,
sometimes we have to think about what could be better
for spectators. That's why sometimes we have to make choices.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And obviously this implies and not so subtly, that men's
matches are better matches, and that's just a whole lot
of malarchy, and especially when again context here at the
Grand Slams, men and women singles players get equal pay.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yes they do, so at least we have equal pay there.
That's great love to get paid the same, But women
have almost always been relegated to the earliest two slots
of the four slots that are available. And this is
of course problematic. We're talking about it for many reasons,
the first being crowds are much more sparse in the morning,
(12:46):
as you can imagine, and fans watching around the world
here at North America. In North America, these games are
far less accessible because they're in the wee hours in
the morning for us versus if it's primetime in then
it's much.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
More watchable over here.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So that's just selfish for us in North America.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But but that's.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Where the majority of people like would also be tuning in.
And again not to flex. I was working at it
at six thirty am, and I was watching on Wednesday
morning Cocoke Golf and Madison Keys, and I was at
the gym around like six thirty six forty and they
were already on their third set stuff, and I couldn't
watch those first two sets, and when I looked at
(13:28):
the crowd, so totally to your point about crowds being
much more sparse, my jaw was on the floor. I
was watching Cocoke GoF the number two rank player in
the world, face off against Madison Keys, who just won
the Australian Open, the first major of the year, and
I would say stuff that Roland Garros was at most,
at most fifty percent full. At most I would think
(13:50):
that it was actually probably more thirty percent full, because
then when we do the time change and that difference,
it's maybe one or two PM or the French who
is actually going to have time off work, who's going
to be able to get out of work and go
to all of these matches not a lot of people,
versus for the men's matches when they're played at six
(14:11):
or seven pm or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This is after people are done work, and.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
For us at home in North America, we have the
opportunity to maybe put it on at the lunch break,
or if you're on the West Coast, put it on
at breakfast when you're getting ready whatever. And so it
was shocking to me those are two of the best
players of the world, and they did. There were so
many seats available I would have flown there, honestly.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So let's break down.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Let's give you the exact numbers here in terms of
what it's looked like for these primetime slots in the
last couple of years at Rolling Garrows. And this is
courtesy of the Athletic. The French Open first introduced the
night session on the main court back in twenty twenty one.
In twenty twenty one, there was one women's match that
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played in prime time. There were no spectators at this
point in time because or curfew in cross Paris because
of COVID nineteen you remember her, so no spectators, but
we had one primetime match. In twenty twenty two, there
were nine men's matches at primetime and only one women's.
In twenty twenty three, again nine men, one women. Twenty
(15:18):
twenty four, eleven men's matches, zero women's matches were throughout
the entire French Open. And now we're in twenty twenty five,
so we're gonna say so far zero and we're.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Giving them a chance to come back. But I mean,
there's the semis and the finals.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Left, like they literally have three matches in order to
make this up, and they again still that ratio is
going to be nine to one or eleven to one
or we'll see what it actually is.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I already talked about Cocoa Golf and Madison Keys, but
the fact that we also didn't put Arena Sablanca, who's
the number one tennis.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Player in the world right now, on.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
TV and primetime, that is so wild to me, and
especially two steph, Like the women's game and the men's
game are both so exciting right now, and there's both
such big names that are driving and fueling fandom on
both sides. And I understand in certain times whatever they're
(16:21):
going to prioritize the women, or they're going to prioritize
the men and the Serena Williams Naomi Osaka era the
US Open, if I'm remembering correctly, like properly prioritize that match,
and they made sure that it was in primetime what
have you in comparison to maybe a men's match that
wouldn't actually be as exciting. And so there is that
balancing act. I think of who are the big names,
(16:42):
how far are they going adjusting the schedule there adjusting
around Rafa Nadal obviously in the past, but this is
such an alarming statistic of what we're seeing at the
roll in Garos and unfortunately two steph because it is
a second major, and because it is such a prestigious major,
it also then gives the right to other tournaments to
(17:03):
potentially do.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
One of the arguments that they're making for having or
for not having women's matches in primetime is that scheduling
a women's contest in primetime quote unquote risk leaving spectators
short changed by a shorter match.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh so, and so that for context, the women's match
is three sets during majors and the men's match in
a major is five sets. Another thing that's also super
sexist that so many men have said, I would much
prefer to only play three sets. That's what we play
in every other ATP tournament. So it's the ATP and
(17:39):
the WTA, and then it's the majors, and they're they're
run separately. They would much rather play three sets, or
the women are like, okay, let us play five sets.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
There's no reason why those.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Make it the same, make it the same.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, And because either or would say make it the same,
like may make it the same. They've said, we'll play
five if that's what you want, you know what I mean?
Like if this is the thing, the argument that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
There's no guarantee, like there's no guarantee that a men's
match is actually going to go the full five sets,
like they could also play three sets, and then the
women's side could also play three sets, like we don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, it is really frustrating to just feel like they
don't care about.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
This particular issue or this particular topic.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
According to The New York Times, the French Open reportedly
turned down a request from Amazon Prime to broadcast Monday's
fourth round match between French women Louis Boissant and world
number three American Jessica Pagoula in the primetime site session slot.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So they turned that down.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Why would they turn that down, especially when there's Amazon
Prime associated to it, and it's very clear that this
is something that America and France would be interested in.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You know what I mean? I don't get that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Also, Wosan is a French woman and she was the
first Home women's quarterfin at Roland Garros in eight years
and the final frenchman standing was eliminated in the third round,
so you would think that there would be some sort
of prioritization to give her more of a prime time slot.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, especially because they're raw Rah like France obviously Vive
la France, right, Like, I just I.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Don't understand it. There's so many women that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Are speaking out on this. There's so many athletes period,
men and women that are speaking.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Out on this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But someone who I always go to to just have
a good quick hit is on Sibber. She has world
number thirty six right now, and I do feel like
she just hit the nail on the head with this
quote after her first round exit this year, which was
tough for her, tough to see her go out in
the first round, but she said, quote, you know, it's
a bit ironic.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They don't show women's sport. They don't show women's tennis.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And then they ask the question and she pauses here
and I think she's saying, they ask the question, like,
do you watch women's tennis?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then she goes, yeah, but they mostly watch men.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And she says, of course, in course they watch men
more because you show men more. And so it's that
age old problem and it's something that honestly stuff. This
is the reason why we started the gist and the
reason why we wanted to level the playing field and
actually have equal coverage to men's and women's sports. And
it just storytelling is to what is the most important story.
It doesn't matter if it's men's or women's. What is
the most important story period. But like it comes back
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to that age old thing of if you put women's
sports on TV, if you invest in women's sports, if
you give women's sports the opportunity to thrive, it will
rise to the occasion.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And we've been seeing that everywhere in spades.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Right now, and so it's just so frustrating that a
sport that is supposed to be on the forefront of
so many things for women is actually on its back foot.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Okay, just to wrap things up here in case you
missed it, you know, because this is a big in
case you missed it episode, The semifinals are played Thursday morning,
around the time that the podcast will be released, so
we don't have that future information at the time of recording,
and you likely have the results at the time of listening.
(21:06):
So again please do google that. But to give you
just uh's.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Just recap you on who is playing.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So it's number two Cocoa Golf versus number three hundred
and sixty one Luis Boissan at nine am Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Shout out, French girl, let's go. I's hearing for you,
even if your country isn't. God damn it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And then the other match is number one Arena Sabalanka
versus number five Eason Tech, and that one's at ten
ten am Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So thank God for that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So lets check to see what happened with those guys.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I am, it's so interesting. Bossan her like underdog
story I think is so cool. I desperately want to
see Golf versus Sablanca. I want to see that so hard,
so bad. I think it might be a US Open
rematch I can't Remembervion Tech is obviously next level too,
(21:59):
but Abalenka and Golf's personalities off the court as well,
I'm obsessed with. And again I think Steph we talked
about this in Women's sent Us a few years ago,
where there was almost too much parody was bad for
the game, And now we're really seeing Sablencas, Fiontech and
Golf dominate so often, and like Madison keys to a
certain extent too, that their domination is better for the sport.
(22:22):
And so I just want to see that a couple
times and in a major and I think it might
be Coco's if if she makes it Coco Goth's first
time at a role in Garos Final.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yes, because Fion Tech is the French opens to Fanning Champ.
She's won the last three French opens.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
She's very good on clay court.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, so it would be fun to have a new
a new champ.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So that's that on that bullshit from France. Do we
expect anything to change from these organizers? Probably not, but
we if we put up enough of a sink as fans,
next year could be the year where we maybe get three.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Prime time matches to the Men's nine progress.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
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Speaker 1 (24:23):
We wanted to end with an update from episode four
six four, famously our last episode where we discussed the
abuse of stalking of women athletes like Libby Dunn and
Olympian Gabby Thomas, and so many other instances that female
athletes are facing. Please go listen to that after you
kind of hear from this, But basically, Gabby Thomas, a
(24:44):
track star and three time Olympic gold medalist, was heckled
at a Grand Slam track event last weekend by a
very gross man who shouted insults at her in order
to win his sports But as we talked about in
the podcast, this isn't just a women's sports thing.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
This isn't just a female athlete thing.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
This is sports betting thing that North America needs to
figure out how they're going to manage.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
This guy calls himself the track.
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And field Bully and had a one thousand dollars Fandual
parlay bet on Thomas to lose, and so parlay means
like you're hedging your bets against a bunch of different bets,
so her to lose, maybe someone else to win, someone
else to come and third, whatever it is she did,
and he took credit for that lost in a post
on x formerly known as Twitter. She spoke out about
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the incident afterward, and yesterday Fandual band this guy the
track and field Bully from their platform, and that's what
you love to see. And I think that's exactly what
we were talking about step in the last podcast, where
we said it's on these sportsbooks and it's on these
teams in these leagues in North America more broadly, to
figure out how they're going to manage this shit. This
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is exactly how you do it. If you act like this,
you're not gonna be able to bet.
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And I absolutely love that he's just made it so
easy to find.
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Him Track and Field Bully. This is a pretty quick update.
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Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
Passssssssssss
What's up, justers, Welcome or welcome back to another episode
of the Gist of It.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Today's Thursday, June fifth. The Warrior co host.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm Alan Hissla and I'm Steph Rott's.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
And today's podcast episode might be a little bit faster
than usual because Steph just told me she has some
vacuuming to get to and it's very important and on
a timely manner, So we might be trying to zoom
through things today so Steff can get back to her
real life.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Oh my god, you're so cruel.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I know, you know what. Deep down? So I am
an older sister.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, and I love nothing more And I love Leah
so much, my little sister so much. She's my best friend.
I love nothing more than annoying Leah. I can't help it.
It's in my bones, it's in my DNA, and I
think for certain people and for certain friends too, I
love annoying them. And so I'm so sorry it's a
toxic trade of mine. But I think it's something that
(01:01):
I inherited as an older sibling.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
That's so fascinating.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Because I was listening to Jocks and Jel's the Pahl Podcast,
and they're talking about how their dynamic is because Tessa,
one of the hosts, is a younger sister and Julia
is an older sister, and how that manifest in their
dynamic and you're the older sister.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I'm the younger sister.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Wait, that's so funny.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Do you think that manifest in our dynamic? I mean
probably teasing me? So perhaps, yeah, we do tease each other.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Perhaps, I don't know. I feel like we're not. Neither
of us are the quintessential older or younger sibling.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Though you're too chill to be an older sister that is.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And also I don't have I have my shit together
at work. Outside of work, my shit is the opposite
of together, and so I'm not you know, the whole thing. Oh,
the older sister is getting all the presents for the
birthdays and parents anniversaries and all that sort of stuff.
Never in my life that is Leah's responsibility, you know, really,
Oh my god, she knows it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I wish I could pay Leah to be my EA.
But one day we'll get there, maybe.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
But do you think that would be good for your relationship?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think she would love it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I think it'd be better for our relationship because she
would be like, this is how I want you to act.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
This is how I want you to show up today.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Sorry for the little sorry, sorry, sorry for the little
dig but I had to Okay, But all that aside.
Today we're doing what the JUST does best, and that
is providing equal coverage for men's and women's sports and.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Calling out some bullshit and I love this for us.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
In case you missed it, and you very well may have,
the French Open finals are this weekend, and for a
little bit of context, this is a huge milestone in
the tennis calendar rolland Garos is the second major of
the season and the only one on clay, and so
that's where they slip and slide and they're on the
red court.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And this year we noticed something very strange about the scheduling.
No women have played in prime time night sessions and
unfortunately this is nothing new at the French Open.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Are absolutely fabulous. Team did a little digging and turns
out it's been going like this for years. So we're
going to detail in this podcast exactly how long it's
been going on. So we're going to give you the
receipts and then we're gonna speed things up and actually
give you a breakdown on what's actually happening at the
French Open as well.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
So it might sound like, Okay, you guys are talking
about women only this podcast, but the reason why we're
talking about men and women is because I want to
call an audible because right now we have to talk
about what's happening at the French Open. It just feels
totally up our alley. But what's also really up our
alley is that the NBA Finals is going on in
(03:38):
the Stanley Cup Final famously without an S by the way,
so if people say NHL Finals or Stanley Cup Finals,
it's Stanley Cup Final, no S. And that's something that
I've learned while working at the GIST. So NBA Finals
in Stanley Cup Finals final is going on.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And for this audible segment of the podcast, I want
to give a little preview to each of these and
in particular stuff. I am so excited for the Stanley
Cup Final. It is actually happening as we are recording
right now, game one. So we don't know what happened
in the first game, as Steph and I like to say,
google it, but it is between the Edmonton Oilers and
(04:17):
the Florida Panthers, and this is a rematch of last
year's Cup Final with the Pan where the Panthers won
in Game seven, And so it just has me stuff
so fucking fired up to be able to see this
rematch again. There's something about budding rivalries and rematches that
just gets me so excited. Edmonton is trying to break
a thirty two year title drought, not for the franchise
(04:40):
but for all of Canada, where as in the meantime,
Florida is trying to become just one of I think
three teams that can win back to back titles since
the New Century. So there's a lot of storytelling in this.
But one thing stuff that I message our producers before
we started recording was I really wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Two rats, two little ratty ratty rats who are.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Playing, and that is Brad Marsham of the Florida Panthers
and Corey Perry of the Edmonton Oilers.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The reason why I called these two.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Rats is because they are players where it feels like
their job is to get under your skin.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's to literally bug the other team.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You might know Brad Marsham for being on or marshand
if we want to anglicize it, for being on the
Boston Bruins. And Steph he's known for licking players faces,
like we've talked about him on the podcast before, licking
players faces. But one thing about both of these players,
they're really hard to like. You just they're really hard
to like. But they're both veterans, and they both are
(05:43):
such game changers that you love it when they're on
your team and otherwise you absolutely hate that they.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Are on the other team and when they're on another team.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But they are the two biggest rats and the two
most effective people, I would say in the game and
the postseason. I really do think it's gonna end up
being this like Corey Perry Brad Marsham like battle in
the Stanley Cup Final, and I cannot wait to watch it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Who do you think is going to win?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I have no idea in this series. Normally I have
a horse who I would say I feel like I'm
attaching my cart to, but I truly don't know. I
would like to think that Edmonton can win and that
they're in a better place, especially because they have homice
advantage this year, but Florida is just so good.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They are playing such good hockey that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
They've proven that they could shut down some of the
best offenses in the league.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And so Edmonton's going to have to try something new.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And some of the best offensive the league. And Connor
McDavid for the Edmonton Oilers.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Exactly, and then Seth, let's talk about basketball.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yes, so we do have to talk about the NBA Finals.
I can plural that one, right, I approve. Okay, thank
you so much. That's gonna be Oklahoma City Thunder or
Okay See versus Indiana Pacers. Game one starts tomorrow. If
you're listening to the podcast, the date comes out, which
is Thursday, June fifth, at.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Eight thirty pm Eastern time.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
We do have to I know we talked about the
drought with Canada with the NHL, but we do have
to talk about Canada one more time. I'm so sorry
with these NBA Finals because there are four Canadians in
the finals for the second year running, and they're split
up amongst the teams too.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's so cool and I think too.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
A former Toronto Raptor, Pascal Siakam, is playing for the Pacers.
He actually won the Eastern Conference MVP in the like
championships in the Eastern Conference Championships there, which is so
cool to see someone I think he only started playing
basketball at eighteen, which.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is so I love his story. I love his story
and Fredman story, but bias because for Rapper.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But if you if y'all aren't familiar with Pascal Siakam,
and I feel like so many people aren't because it's
not like Toronto is a huge market for basketball. It's
not like Indiana is a huge market for basketball. Would
strongly encourage and reading his story and learning more about
his story, I felt so inspired by because it's one
of those things where it's like you can start something
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at any time and find joy in it and potentially
be good at it and your life could change.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What a beautiful, beautiful story. Now let's talk, perhaps, yeah,
beautiful story for one of those teams. Who do you
think is going to win?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I think that okayc should run away with it, shakee
Fields is Alexander so good? But at the same time,
I think everyone is surprised that the Pacers are actually
in the finals, and so you can't count them out.
But if I was a betting woman, which I am
and I will be I'll be betting on OKAC. Shout
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It's officially work from the Patio season.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Which means it's time for me and my remote co
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Speaker 2 (09:00):
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Speaker 1 (09:01):
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Speaker 2 (09:12):
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
As mentioned, today's one Big Story is all about the
French Open aka Rolling Garos, which is tennis's second major
of the year. It is a big deal not only
because it's the only major played en clay, but also
because of its prestige that comes with winning it. I
will say I got to visit Rolling Garros during the
Olympics last year stuff and it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Changed my life.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's such a cool stadium, such a cool venue in
place that if anyone ever has the opportunity to go,
I very much recommend you to take it. The encored
action so far has been thrilling. I have been watching
it well, I've been at the gym subtleflex every morning.
And in just a few minutes we'll get into all
of the women's highlights you may have missed because the
(10:06):
women's side of the tournament is not happening in prime time,
not a single match.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So let's talk about why that is.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Mm hmmm. Perhaps we need to talk about sexism.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Because it's perhaps we do.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Perhaps we do because it's not making enough headlines. As
we know all too well, it's not the first time
women's sports has to deal with unfair scheduling and broadcasting inequities.
But in twenty twenty five, it's just so disheartening that
we still have to talk about this that.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Here we are yet again.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Once we've sorted through the unfortunate sexism that's plaguing the
French Open, we'll catch you up on everything that you
may have missed while the world's best have been hit
in the court in the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So let's talk about first the sexism, and before we
get into everything, we do our best to pronounce names
properly correct. We tend to actually make a lot of
names sounds sound French when they're actually English. Oftentimes we
add a little something to them and these are French
names and we'll try our best, but we're probably gonna
(11:10):
say them wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Thank you for that premise.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
So yeah, that's I just want to like preface that
for everybody. We're trying our best, but we are not
good at accents at the end of the day. So essentially,
this French open sexism has come to light and it's
been happening for a couple of years, and there's been
some really great reporting from the press, in the press,
in the post match press conferences, especially from some specific
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female reporters that have been asking really hard hitting questions
to the French open organizers. And in one of those
press conferences, they really went at the president of Francis
Tennis Federation, g Morettin, gil Gio Morettin, and she is
a woman, and in her response to basically being like,
(11:56):
why aren't you putting women's matches in primetime, she said, quote,
sometimes we have to think about what could be better
for spectators. That's why sometimes we have to make choices.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And obviously this implies and not so subtly, that men's
matches are better matches, and that's just a whole lot
of malarchy, and especially when again context here at the
Grand Slams, men and women singles players get equal pay.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yes they do, so at least we have equal pay there.
That's great love to get paid the same, But women
have almost always been relegated to the earliest two slots
of the four slots that are available. And this is
of course problematic. We're talking about it for many reasons,
the first being crowds are much more sparse in the morning,
(12:46):
as you can imagine, and fans watching around the world
here at North America. In North America, these games are
far less accessible because they're in the wee hours in
the morning for us versus if it's primetime in then
it's much.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
More watchable over here.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So that's just selfish for us in North America.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
But but that's.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Where the majority of people like would also be tuning in.
And again not to flex. I was working at it
at six thirty am, and I was watching on Wednesday
morning Cocoke Golf and Madison Keys, and I was at
the gym around like six thirty six forty and they
were already on their third set stuff, and I couldn't
watch those first two sets, and when I looked at
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the crowd, so totally to your point about crowds being
much more sparse, my jaw was on the floor. I
was watching Cocoke GoF the number two rank player in
the world, face off against Madison Keys, who just won
the Australian Open, the first major of the year, and
I would say stuff that Roland Garros was at most,
at most fifty percent full. At most I would think
(13:50):
that it was actually probably more thirty percent full, because
then when we do the time change and that difference,
it's maybe one or two PM or the French who
is actually going to have time off work, who's going
to be able to get out of work and go
to all of these matches not a lot of people,
versus for the men's matches when they're played at six
(14:11):
or seven pm or whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This is after people are done work, and.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
For us at home in North America, we have the
opportunity to maybe put it on at the lunch break,
or if you're on the West Coast, put it on
at breakfast when you're getting ready whatever. And so it
was shocking to me those are two of the best
players of the world, and they did. There were so
many seats available I would have flown there, honestly.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
So let's break down.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Let's give you the exact numbers here in terms of
what it's looked like for these primetime slots in the
last couple of years at Rolling Garrows. And this is
courtesy of the Athletic. The French Open first introduced the
night session on the main court back in twenty twenty one.
In twenty twenty one, there was one women's match that
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played in prime time. There were no spectators at this
point in time because or curfew in cross Paris because
of COVID nineteen you remember her, so no spectators, but
we had one primetime match. In twenty twenty two, there
were nine men's matches at primetime and only one women's.
In twenty twenty three, again nine men, one women. Twenty
(15:18):
twenty four, eleven men's matches, zero women's matches were throughout
the entire French Open. And now we're in twenty twenty five,
so we're gonna say so far zero and we're.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Giving them a chance to come back. But I mean,
there's the semis and the finals.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Left, like they literally have three matches in order to
make this up, and they again still that ratio is
going to be nine to one or eleven to one
or we'll see what it actually is.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
And it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I already talked about Cocoa Golf and Madison Keys, but
the fact that we also didn't put Arena Sablanca, who's
the number one tennis.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Player in the world right now, on.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
TV and primetime, that is so wild to me, and
especially two steph, Like the women's game and the men's
game are both so exciting right now, and there's both
such big names that are driving and fueling fandom on
both sides. And I understand in certain times whatever they're
(16:21):
going to prioritize the women, or they're going to prioritize
the men and the Serena Williams Naomi Osaka era the
US Open, if I'm remembering correctly, like properly prioritize that match,
and they made sure that it was in primetime what
have you in comparison to maybe a men's match that
wouldn't actually be as exciting. And so there is that
balancing act. I think of who are the big names,
(16:42):
how far are they going adjusting the schedule there adjusting
around Rafa Nadal obviously in the past, but this is
such an alarming statistic of what we're seeing at the
roll in Garos and unfortunately two steph because it is
a second major, and because it is such a prestigious major,
it also then gives the right to other tournaments to
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potentially do.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
The same thing.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
One of the arguments that they're making for having or
for not having women's matches in primetime is that scheduling
a women's contest in primetime quote unquote risk leaving spectators
short changed by a shorter match.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Oh so, and so that for context, the women's match
is three sets during majors and the men's match in
a major is five sets. Another thing that's also super
sexist that so many men have said, I would much
prefer to only play three sets. That's what we play
in every other ATP tournament. So it's the ATP and
(17:39):
the WTA, and then it's the majors, and they're they're
run separately. They would much rather play three sets, or
the women are like, okay, let us play five sets.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
There's no reason why those.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Make it the same, make it the same.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yeah, And because either or would say make it the same,
like may make it the same. They've said, we'll play
five if that's what you want, you know what I mean?
Like if this is the thing, the argument that.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
There's no guarantee, like there's no guarantee that a men's
match is actually going to go the full five sets,
like they could also play three sets, and then the
women's side could also play three sets, like we don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah, it is really frustrating to just feel like they
don't care about.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
This particular issue or this particular topic.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
According to The New York Times, the French Open reportedly
turned down a request from Amazon Prime to broadcast Monday's
fourth round match between French women Louis Boissant and world
number three American Jessica Pagoula in the primetime site session slot.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
So they turned that down.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Why would they turn that down, especially when there's Amazon
Prime associated to it, and it's very clear that this
is something that America and France would be interested in.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You know what I mean? I don't get that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Also, Wosan is a French woman and she was the
first Home women's quarterfin at Roland Garros in eight years
and the final frenchman standing was eliminated in the third round,
so you would think that there would be some sort
of prioritization to give her more of a prime time slot.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, especially because they're raw Rah like France obviously Vive
la France, right, Like, I just I.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Don't understand it. There's so many women that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Are speaking out on this. There's so many athletes period,
men and women that are speaking.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Out on this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
But someone who I always go to to just have
a good quick hit is on Sibber. She has world
number thirty six right now, and I do feel like
she just hit the nail on the head with this
quote after her first round exit this year, which was
tough for her, tough to see her go out in
the first round, but she said, quote, you know, it's
a bit ironic.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They don't show women's sport. They don't show women's tennis.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And then they ask the question and she pauses here
and I think she's saying, they ask the question, like,
do you watch women's tennis?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And then she goes, yeah, but they mostly watch men.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And she says, of course, in course they watch men
more because you show men more. And so it's that
age old problem and it's something that honestly stuff. This
is the reason why we started the gist and the
reason why we wanted to level the playing field and
actually have equal coverage to men's and women's sports. And
it just storytelling is to what is the most important story.
It doesn't matter if it's men's or women's. What is
the most important story period. But like it comes back
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to that age old thing of if you put women's
sports on TV, if you invest in women's sports, if
you give women's sports the opportunity to thrive, it will
rise to the occasion.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And we've been seeing that everywhere in spades.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Right now, and so it's just so frustrating that a
sport that is supposed to be on the forefront of
so many things for women is actually on its back foot.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Okay, just to wrap things up here in case you
missed it, you know, because this is a big in
case you missed it episode, The semifinals are played Thursday morning,
around the time that the podcast will be released, so
we don't have that future information at the time of recording,
and you likely have the results at the time of listening.
(21:06):
So again please do google that. But to give you
just uh's.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Just recap you on who is playing.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So it's number two Cocoa Golf versus number three hundred
and sixty one Luis Boissan at nine am Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Shout out, French girl, let's go. I's hearing for you,
even if your country isn't. God damn it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
And then the other match is number one Arena Sabalanka
versus number five Eason Tech, and that one's at ten
ten am Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So thank God for that.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
So lets check to see what happened with those guys.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, I am, it's so interesting. Bossan her like underdog
story I think is so cool. I desperately want to
see Golf versus Sablanca. I want to see that so hard,
so bad. I think it might be a US Open
rematch I can't Remembervion Tech is obviously next level too,
(21:59):
but Abalenka and Golf's personalities off the court as well,
I'm obsessed with. And again I think Steph we talked
about this in Women's sent Us a few years ago,
where there was almost too much parody was bad for
the game, And now we're really seeing Sablencas, Fiontech and
Golf dominate so often, and like Madison keys to a
certain extent too, that their domination is better for the sport.
(22:22):
And so I just want to see that a couple
times and in a major and I think it might
be Coco's if if she makes it Coco Goth's first
time at a role in Garos Final.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yes, because Fion Tech is the French opens to Fanning Champ.
She's won the last three French opens.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
She's very good on clay court.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, so it would be fun to have a new
a new champ.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So that's that on that bullshit from France. Do we
expect anything to change from these organizers? Probably not, but
we if we put up enough of a sink as fans,
next year could be the year where we maybe get three.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Prime time matches to the Men's nine progress.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
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Speaker 2 (23:35):
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Speaker 3 (23:44):
The last segment of the pod is where we would
typically start our personal training sesh where we answer your
hard hitting questions about anything in the sports world. So
we would love to hear from you. Please leave us
a voicemail call us at one four three seven, five
six four five seven to nine, or in our show notes.
In our show notes, open that up, giving you time.
(24:07):
I'm allowing for you to have time to open your
show notes, hold down on the link and you can
use that to leave us a voicemail as well. So
we would absolutely love and encourage these to keep coming.
But we do have something that we needed to address
in today's podcast, so we had to slot it into
our usual personal training session, So.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
We wanted to end with an update from episode four
six four, famously our last episode where we discussed the
abuse of stalking of women athletes like Libby Dunn and
Olympian Gabby Thomas, and so many other instances that female
athletes are facing. Please go listen to that after you
kind of hear from this, But basically, Gabby Thomas, a
(24:44):
track star and three time Olympic gold medalist, was heckled
at a Grand Slam track event last weekend by a
very gross man who shouted insults at her in order
to win his sports But as we talked about in
the podcast, this isn't just a women's sports thing.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
This isn't just a female athlete thing.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
This is sports betting thing that North America needs to
figure out how they're going to manage.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
This guy calls himself the track.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
And field Bully and had a one thousand dollars Fandual
parlay bet on Thomas to lose, and so parlay means
like you're hedging your bets against a bunch of different bets,
so her to lose, maybe someone else to win, someone
else to come and third, whatever it is she did,
and he took credit for that lost in a post
on x formerly known as Twitter. She spoke out about
(25:28):
the incident afterward, and yesterday Fandual band this guy the
track and field Bully from their platform, and that's what
you love to see. And I think that's exactly what
we were talking about step in the last podcast, where
we said it's on these sportsbooks and it's on these
teams in these leagues in North America more broadly, to
figure out how they're going to manage this shit. This
(25:48):
is exactly how you do it. If you act like this,
you're not gonna be able to bet.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
And I absolutely love that he's just made it so
easy to find.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Him Track and Field Bully. This is a pretty quick update.
We just recorded this perfect boom. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We love it when companies new fast and you know what,
FanDuel also a partner of.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
The gest here and there, and so I'm just saying
thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm just saying there were we're choosing people wisely.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And with that, that marks the end of today's episode.
Thank you so much for tuning in. Will be back
in your feed with the new podcast on Tuesday. In
the meantime, we would absolutely love if you could drop
us a voice nail for our next personal training SESSH
and also rate, review and subscribe all that.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, and one more time, that number is one four
three seven five six four five, five seven nine. We
love hearing your voices. There's literally that nothing that brings
us more joy. And also we know that we have
we have a few voicemails queued.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Up in there. They're in the queue.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
There's a few that we haven't brought in yet, just
with timing and YadA, YadA YadA, but we hear you,
We love you. Please keep on sending them in and yours.
If you haven't heard your voice yet yet, it will come.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Your time will come, we promise.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
This episode was edited by Zachary Brule Shoutow zach Can,
produce by Lisa Minotillo as well as al Sarra Puccio.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Again, I'm Alissa.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And I'm sef Rots and we'll chat with you it
next week.
Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
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