Madeline and Charlotte are back with a deep dive of Season 3 of “America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.” The gals talked about Season 2 last year when it came out, which was a very different series that followed the cheerleaders as they fought for better pay.

This year, the antagonist is the outside world, and the show became a show about the show itself.

The gals analyze all of the themes the show presents: Supporting hegemonic masculinity, the Cowboys’ thin, white standard of beauty, the mirage of empowerment, what it means to be famous today, and this season as contextualized by the rise of the tradwife.

Plus: the origins of cheerleading, Reece’s decision to retire, Kelli and Judy leading from a place of fear, the hip surgeries that multiple performers need by the age of 25, the power imbalance that occurs when the show anoints certain women as stars, and much more.

Selected sources from this episode:

Michaele L. Ferguson, Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics (2010)

Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl (2025)

Laura Grindstaff, Emily West, Cheerleading and the Gendered Politics of Sport (2006)

Alex Kuczynski, Beauty Junkies (2006)

La'Tonya Rease Miles, American Beauty: The Cheerleader in American Literature and Popular Culture (2005)

Sekani Robinson, Black Ballerinas: The Management of Emotional and Aesthetic Labor (2021)

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Madeline and Charlotte are back with a jam-packed episode! First up: For Father’s Day, Gisele Bündchen posted about Joaquim Valente, her new husband and father of her youngest child, but left out her ex-husband Tom Brady. Yikes! Eagles star DeVonta Smith married Mya Danielle and set a new standard for compressed flowers. Former college basketball player Haley Cavinder, on the other hand, married Jake Ferguson of the Cowboys, and it was just standard compression.

The Milwaukee Bucks traded Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Heat, even though the Celtics appear to have offered up Jaylen Brown — which is a little awkward for Jaylen! Also, the gals don’t think this will work for the Heat, sorry to Miami. The Fever’s Myisha Hines-Allen was ejected after a team-wide Fever scuffle against the Mercury, and Caitlin Clark got her fifth tech of the season — there’s a lot of history between Mercury star DeWanna Bonner and the Fever.

Serena Williams is competing in women’s singles at Wimbledon, and former Wimbledon champ & World No. 6 Marketa Vondrousova is suspended from professional tennis until 2030 after refusing to take an anti-doping test in December 2025.

Now, World Cup stuff! Scottish fans are obsessed with Boston and drank all the beer in the city. The Fox Sports drama between Alexi Lalas and Zlatan Ibrahimović is putting host Rebecca Lowe in a very bad position. Norway beat Senegal, thanks to two goals from Erling Haaland, and all the Norwegian fans all pretend to row in the stands! There seem to be some issues in Senegal’s camp — there’s political upheaval in the country, so buckle up for a current events lesson. Curaçao's (playing Ivory Coast Thursday) Eloy Room recorded 15 saves against Ecuador, and Argentina’s Lionel Messi became the highest goalscorer in men's World Cup history on Monday (with France’s Kylian Mbappé close on his heels!).

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Madeline and Charlotte are back with everything you want to know about the USMNT players as you watch them. Who are they dating? What club do they play for? Where are they from? Info on Christian Pulisic, Tim Weah, Tim Ream, Weston Mckennie, Florian Balogun, Alex Freeman, and more.

And then: A deep dive into the feud between two royal American families of soccer. Seb Berhalter and Gio Reyna both play for the USMNT, but did you know that their families used to be super close? Until Gregg became Gio’s coach and Gio’s parents, Claudio and Danielle, got involved, that is. You don’t want to miss this one!

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