How to enter your Sporty Spice era
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At this point now, I'm old enough to be Trinity's mother. That's our daughter.
Oh, my God. I do feel like this is the first season where I've been like, none of these people are hot to me because they're all my children. I love my beautiful sons and daughters.
I don't know about you, but I am in my sporty spice era. I love that for you. Yes. I am following Mexico and Ghana in the World Cup. I was just watching the Knicks win their MNBA championship and I followed Liberty play in the WNBA. I know I'm like the last person to find out that watching sports and being an active sports fan like rocks, but I'm here now and I have been following yet another near daily competition. that I kind of think should be considered a sport, Love Island. I noticed that there are a lot of similarities. For one, again, both near daily, like you can catch a game most days. Same thing with Love Island. They have highlight shows. It took me seeing a Love Island after sun to understand why sports highlight shows exist, to be honest.
They're our favorite players, competitors, and you can bet on both Love Island and sports on Kalshi. And I'm also kind of coming to this realization a little late too. When I posted about it on X, Defector.com staff writer and co-owner Kelsey McKinney was like, Brittany, can I interest you in my old blog about this? So I brought Kelsey here to the show to gab about why Love Island is sports and how these formats can bring us together. Halsey, welcome back to It's Been a Minute.
Brittany, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here. We love sports.
Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
First of all, vibe check. Who is your winning couple on Love Island this season?
I feel like America is really united on this in that we are Trinity and Bryce. I am in a Trinity and Bryce household. I salute them. I love them.
How did Brittany realize she was in her 'Sporty Spice' era and start watching sports daily?
Same.
Are you bringing me to infinity? Are you kidding me? My husband was actually really early on this. He was like, this is a winning couple right here. And he said that like two weeks ago.
He was so early. You know what? I want to truly admit that I was wrong. I really did not like Bryce. Like the first few days in the villa, I was like, who is this like Cullen family weirdo loitering around? And I really made a full 180.
on this guy and now i'm like i love him he's so funny i'm obsessed with him i hope he doesn't throw himself out of casa to his death because he misses trinity so much literally i mean like everybody else is trying to cheat on their like main villa girls and he's like standing at like the edge of like a literal cliff into the dark ocean talking about how much he misses trinity like crying yearning That's the thing. I mean, he provided the yearning. I was already into Trinity from the beginning. I thought she was funny. I thought she was bubbly. I thought she was awesome.
Yep, because she has the face of an angel.
The face and also the heart of an angel. She is like the sweetest, funniest, cutest girl ever. She's adorable. But then I started noticing that like I would listen to little bits of her and Bryce's conversations. And I was like, oh, they seem like they're getting along. I got into him as an individual once I realized that I was like, oh, this guy is like a male model who's turning 30.
Excuse me, male model slash DJ slash garbage truck repairman. Yes.
Why does Brittany compare Love Island to a sport and notice structural similarities?
I hate talking about it. I get a little like insecure about it.
Why?
I'll like fix like garbage trucks and stuff. And it's like, dude, it's almost like disgusting.
Who cares? I think it's cute. I like it. And so I was like, he's turning 30 and he's having like, you could tell that he's in a sort of interesting existential crisis where like the other guys are so young.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:42
2
How did Brittany realize she was in her 'Sporty Spice' era and start watching sports daily?
2:42–4:11
3
Why does Brittany compare Love Island to a sport and notice structural similarities?
4:11–9:16
4
Who are Brittany and Kelsey’s favorite Love Island couple and why do they root for them?
9:16–20:04
5
How did Kelsey’s baseball fandom lead her to see Love Island as a daily ritual like sports?
20:04–23:47