Billie Jean King
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Nov 3, 2026
Rebecca MessinaHOST
Frank Sinatra is back again in this one.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
You also had Billie Jean King, Lily Tomlin.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
They were all involved in the Dope King's last stand.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
And it ends with like a kind of stirring narration over the strains of Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Abby WambachGUEST
And so because we started this process of going independent with We Can Do Hard Things, We had the whole structure set up for me to start this new women's sports show.
Abby WambachGUEST
And so Julie Foudy, me, and Billie Jean King all found ourselves at an Angel City game.
Abby WambachGUEST
And I just looked at Julie and I was like, do you want to start a women's sports podcast with me? She's like, I was just talking about this with Billie.
Abby WambachGUEST
And I was like, okay, how about we figure out how to do this together? And so we've just been doing that for the last year, just trying to like...
Blake EricksonGUEST
I'm so pumped to hear that.
Rob SperryHOST
I like feeling nervous as, as Billie Jean King says, pressure is a privilege.
Rob SperryHOST
And I always teach that to all my tennis kids.
Rob SperryHOST
And that's what I would tell myself on stage when I used to feel a little
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Get a great kick out of talking to Bob because I happen to believe he's married to the greatest women's tennis player I ever saw, Pauline Betts.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'll admit, Billie Jean King, of course, that's an unfair statement.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I haven't seen Billie Jean King play that much, but Pauline Betts, in her time, one of the greatest she'll ever look at, single in the swing of the net.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Kim Ogle from New York.
Bob PrinceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They're locker riders here tonight, Nellie, and they're going to follow this thing right to the wire.
Nousha NowamoozGUEST
So I am previously a tennis player.
Nousha NowamoozGUEST
I always think of Billie Jean King, pressure is a privilege.
Nousha NowamoozGUEST
And I fully believe in that going into the family business, there are large stakes.
Nousha NowamoozGUEST
Having the family business is a privilege, an opportunity that's there for you.
Johanna WeaverHOST
Others make it happen.
Johanna WeaverHOST
And that's from Billie Jean King.
Johanna WeaverHOST
And I I think that epitomises what you do, but it also, I hope, epitomises what we're doing at the Tech Policy Design Institute as well in terms of that we can be shaping technology rather than having it shape us.
Johanna WeaverHOST
Yaz, we are going to dive right into lots of the different tech pieces, but maybe can you just talk us through your career path? And you describe it as non-linear, but was there and has there been a through line through the different parts of your career?
Brad MeltzerGUEST
So we started with I'm Amelia Earhart and I am Abraham Lincoln, but we've done Rosa Parks and Dolly Parton.
Brad MeltzerGUEST
We've done Jane Goodall and Billie Jean King.
Brad MeltzerGUEST
we've done mr rogers and i am jim henson and you know i am walt disney and we are the beatles to teach empathy i did i am princess diana to teach about mental health i did i am simone biles and the reason i did the right brothers i started in in the beginning i chose heroes that i wanted my daughter to have my son to have but eventually i started looking and saying what do they need and when i saw they needed empathy i was like oh yeah empathy is like missing in society right now let's do princess diana when i thought how divided we were as a culture i was like how do i teach them to come together oh, I'm going to do We Are the Beatles.
Brad MeltzerGUEST
And I just started picking things.
SarahHOST
But, you know, it's also people, these people that made such an impact deserve to be remembered.
SarahHOST
Some amazing people like our Billie Jean King, who...
SarahHOST
Boy, did I know she was the most important person in my whole life.
DrewHOST
She's the best thing that ever happened to me.
Marty ReissenGUEST
had Billie Jean.
Brian DanielsonHOST
Yeah, Billie Jean King, that's true.
Marty ReissenGUEST
In those days, and, you know, since, you know, there were three of the matches included the women, and the same for the men.
Marty ReissenGUEST
So, you know, everyone was important to everybody.
Colm TóibínHOST
Ex-tennis players are always so sad, aren't they? I know.
Colm TóibínHOST
You see the you see the camera on them in the crowd and you go, oh, my God, is that Rod Laver? And oh, my God, is that Billie Jean King? And you go, Agassi, you know, all those guys, Connors, McEnroe.
Colm TóibínHOST
We spend so much of our lives watching.
Colm TóibínHOST
Suddenly they're all gone.
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