How To Pretend To Like Sports
Let’s be real, you have absolutely no interest in sitting through a 4-hour sports talk show, butttt it would be nice to at least participate in the conversation when sports get brought up.... Well, welcome to 'How to Pretend to Like Sports' - a podcast that gives you just the right amount of what you need to know to talk sports - no game watching required. Each week, your sports bestie, Monica, breaks down sports headlines from college football to F1 race day fashion. To keep it balanced, Monica also shares a healthy dose of unfiltered thoughts on living your best millennial life...from fashion to dating and dog mom life. Whether it’s small talk before a meeting at the office or chatting it up at the game watch party, you’ll have conversation starters and relevant topics in your back pocket, so you can pretend to like sports - without really liking sports. You can expect the sports news you’ll actually care about, game day fashion recs, life in your 30s and the occasional (ok weekly) unsolicited advice. Welcome to YOUR favorite game day ritual - HTPTLS with Monica.
Episodes
Surprise! Back after a two-year hiatus, and this time with a co-host! Meet Karlee from TikTok and Instagram's "The Girlies Guide to Surviving College Football" series. This podcast is your SparkNotes version of everything happening in sports - no four-hour deep dives, just what you actually need to know to be part of the conversation.
In This Episode:
The Cowboys Tie Drama: We break down last weekend's Cowboys-Packers game t...
F1 Drive to Survive Thoughts, What's the NFL Combine, March Madness is Almost here
- Takeaways for the listener – a good best practice is 3-4 key points
- Timestamps to help listeners navigate to specific parts of episode
- Recommended next episodes to listen to – keep listeners in your podcast ecosystem!
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In this episode, Monica talks about
Full Swing:
• first episode: Jordan and JT’s friendship
• flashback to high school & college, learning to play golf
Drive to Survive Season 5 - feb 24l
Changes coming to the 2023 Season
2023 Season Starts: March 4th Bahrain 9am CST
Pre-Season Testing
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In this episode, Monica talks about
The Netflix Curse, NFL Divisional Round, College Basketball
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In this episode, Monica talks about:
• NFL Wild Card Games: Cowboys kicker, Failed quarterback sneak, Jaguars comeback
-Chargers, Buccs, Jaguars, Cowboys, Ravens, Bengals
• F1 makes schedule adjustments and we are traveling the world 10x over
• College Basketball: LMU, Gonzaga, KU, TCU, and more
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• TCU game experience
• Thoughts on the game - Georgia is basically an NFL team, Stetson Bennett 25 years old - his college football career path
• Future of TCU football
NFL News:
- Chiefs ring around the rosey play
- Derek Carr
- Sean McVay considering stepping down
College Basketball - week 10 ap 25 poll
Notable upcoming basketball games
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In this episode, Monica talks about
- TCU Football: TCU vs Michigan Game. TCU vs Georgia National Championship game
- Michigan coach may be going to the NFL
- TCU Basketball: Thoughts from the TCU vs Texas Tech game
- Rutgers upsets Purdue
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Embarrassing yoga moments, A Very Freezing Christmas, NFL Playoffs, NFL Standings, World Cup & Messi
In this episode, Monica talks about embarrassing yoga wardrobe malfunctions, a freezing Christmas, and how I got into F1.
Also talking about what is being called the most exciting World Cup final in history and Lionel Messi and how he met his wife.
Sports News
• Jalen Hurts out this coming game, injury
• Latest NFL Playoff Picture
• NFL Christmas Day games
• NBA Christmas games
• Top NBA Teams
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Sports:
- The Heisman trophy winner
- World Cup final is almost here
- Bad news in Texas Baskettball
- Why 49ers QB parents were tearing up at Sunday's game
- What to expect from the NFL playoffs and who’s been eliminated already
And in life chats Monica shares the most millennial thought ever plus thoughts on sponsored posts that everyone is thinking
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In this episode, Monica talks about all the things in her house that keep breaking and hiring handymen that don't actually know what they're doing. She also talks about her thoughts on the TCU Fiesta bowl t-shirts - not good.
– College Football Playoff structure is changing
– A stadium is coming down and being packed up to be re-used. Yes, a stadium
– What in the world is a wavier wire?
– NFL Quarterbacks: Baker Mayfield and Jimmy G
– W...
In this episode, Monica circles back to when you tie in soccer and when you don’t, World Cup updates, upcoming football conference championships, and other news that’s going around the world of sports.
– Points and tie-breakers in the World Cup
– TCU Remains Undefeated
– Ferrari's Mattia Binotto steps down
– Esteban Ocon gets real about his past year with Fernando Alonso
– Men's Basketball Rankings
– College Football Conference Champion...
In this week's Thanksgiving episode of How to Pretend to Like Sports, Monica chats about the following:
- Max’s mom accused Checo of cheating on his wife (he had issued an apology)
- My initial World Cup thoughts
- The age of some of these players: Ronaldo 37 (leaving Manchester), Messi 35 Saudi Arabia beat Argentina ranked 3 in the world in huge upset
- Belgium had the word love in the inside of their jersey and Fifa said they had to remo...
In this episode, Monica talks about
– Topic #1: Top contenders to buy the Washington Commanders (from the rumor mill of course)
– Topic #2 Drama between Formula 1 Red Bull Teammates after the Brazil race
– Topic #3 Indianapolis Colts have a new head coach who has only coached at the high school level
– Topic #4 College Football Update
– Topic #5 Protests at the World Cup
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Monica shares her experience with overwhelm last week and where it's stemming from and her tip for moving through it if you are too.
This week in sports
• College football and basketball rankings
• TCU vs Texas coming up
• 2 things that make a game more entertaining if you're not invested in it: mic'd up players and celebrations
• a dating app pep talk for you
• Michigan vs MSU fight in the tunnel
• College football playoff top 25 rankings
6 Alabama
5 Michigan
4 Clemson
3 Georgia
2 Ohio State
1 Tennessee
- World Series
- Mexico Formula 1 Race
- This is probably the third time I have ever used Minnesota vikings in a sentence, but here we are because they’re 6-1. They’re well on their way to win the NFC North and host a playoff game.
- Tom and Giselle finalized thei...
In this episode:
• F1 Race in Austin
• The Ralph Lauren shirt you must run and buy
• Outfit repeating
• NFL Trade deadline, Christian McCaffrey
• World Series
• World Cup
• College Basketball Men's top 10 pre-season ranks
Is dog training life coaching? College football top 10 and can someone make sense of baseball playoffs?
Trailer: How to Pretend to Like Sports
Monica is bringing back an episode from the Archives. This interview was with Steph Toilolo founder of Good Sport Apparel @goodsportapparel
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