28:46 my 85 year old grandma and I just chatted about this. Female athletes who speak on these topics like Ilona have an extraordinary influence on young women. It’s such an amazing thing to exist at the same time as these women who are actively making history. ♥️
I'm a large, queer, millenial woman raised in a very patriarchal (and Muslim) culture where men's football is SACRED and nothing else matters. So of course I couldn't care less about sports. This year, right before Olympics I discovered women's rugby entirely by chance and became mesmerized by the sport, by these athletes and by women's sports in general! It changed my mindset entirely. And I enjoyed many different women's sports during Olympics and now am a diehard follower of athletes like Ilona ❤ This interview was really great and I loved getting to know her
Genuinely so jealous of Drew's interviewer skills, she's so effortless funny and quick, I've seen only a handful of these eps but already I can see how easily she makes the people feel comfortable and gets them talking with enthusiasm ❤
The eldest sibling convo was SO validating. How do the youngest kids get away with EVERYTHING? I was always so jealous of how it was so easy for them to do whatever they want.
My parents just got tired of being so strict so I could do more than my siblings (I'm the youngest of 3). Also, since they weren't so strict, I didn't have the urge to rebel and do crazy stuff, like my older siblings did. I think they realized that the more rules they put in place, the more the kids would want to push the boundaries and break them, so they weren't so strict with me
Soooo happy you put this on TH-cam! As I was watching it on Spotify I was thinking to myself “god I wish I could scroll through the comments of this video because I love it so much” lol
She's BEAUTIFUL!!! And I love how fierce she is in her sport but outside she's the literal definition of femininity (if there is such a thing). What a class act!
the competition mindset is something i consistently struggle with. i HATE losing. im not a sore loser, i just hate losing. i did 9 sports in the span of 10 years and most of them i did for more than 4 years. softball for 10, soccer for 8, track for 6, XC for 2, cheer for 2, dance for 3, figure skating off and on for a while, wrestling for 1, and volleyball for 3. i am just very competitive as a person and i miss sports SO MUCH. i recently found out about an adult fastpitch softball league and i will 10000% be doing that. i still have a bunch of stuff and even if i have to buy new things, i know exactly what i need to buy and exactly what rules to follow. i just miss the competition so much.
Yesssssss!!! I love her and her beautiful red lip I found her on social media during the Olympics and fell in love 😘 I didn't know woman played rugby and I'm so excited to see where her life goes!!!! Glad to see more woman being represented thank you for this content
you're such a great interviewer and sucha down person, i dont even care who the guest is, i know it'll be a good conversation and it'll be something i learn from.
I would love a podcast of them just talking about sports. Like a weekly sports news podcast as a girl who loves sports. When was talking about Rugby changing her life, that how I feel about roller derby. Find a collective the is invested in your success.
I'm 5'8, which isn't super tall, but it's taller than average and pairing that with the fact that I have never been skinny, I've always felt big. Sometimes I feel I have to be more feminine to diminish my size. I'm still working on being okay with myself just being bigger and actually taking up space, which is so hard when women are expected to be more demur and small
Really well said. I’m 6’ so I feel you, and it’s not easy to set aside everything society is screaming at us. Because it’s screaming such trash! But keep it up. You set your own standards. Take up space. We get to decide what feminine is for ourselves, and that’s beautiful, just like you ❤
I think men refer to muscular women as masculine because they don’t think of women as being able to be muscular. Ilona is NOT masculine. She’s very feminine. And she has muscles. Win win. I don’t get why men talk about the two things like they’re mutually exclusive. Also I need to know if she does hair glosses or something because her hair is so shiny. Like Madison Beer hair
Small and weak - easy to overpower. Made to feel less than - easy to manipulate. It's all for control and it's all a predatory mindset. Men who are capable of dating strong, intelligent, confident women are likely to be more secure and safe to be around...and are also rare.
Okay let’s not use the excuse of “prey drive”. We are humans, not animals, who can control our impulses. If it’s being used to just let people off the hook for inappropriately behavior then that’s not it. This coming from someone who is insanely competitive.
great episode i genuinely love it, however i came to say your real asf for being self conscious about them pretty grippers thats a 8.8/5 on wikifeet babe🤷🏾♀️
Getting literal chills knowing when this was recorded she didn’t know her and her team would win USA their first rugby medal.
Drew & Ilona are the ladies in my 27 years of living that are gonna make me proud and unapologetic of being a 6’1, strong shouldered lady 🫡
Plenty of other ladies who could be inspiring to you.
@@w0033944okay and? do u choose who you relate to and feel represented by? cool
I GASPED THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS ONE ON TH-cam😮💨😮💨😮💨
28:46 my 85 year old grandma and I just chatted about this. Female athletes who speak on these topics like Ilona have an extraordinary influence on young women. It’s such an amazing thing to exist at the same time as these women who are actively making history. ♥️
They truly matched eachother’s humor freak & I am HERE FOR ITTTTT
i love them talking about stiff arming before Ilona went viral for that at the Olympics 😂
This whole convo about being big validates me cause I work out religiously and my upper body has gotten muscular
I WISH I had muscular arms 🥲 no matter what I do it doesn't look like I have muscles
hey as a fellow wide shouldered woman, i absolutely LOVE seeing women proud of their musculature . I envy you respectfully 😂😂
Strong Queen!
I'm a large, queer, millenial woman raised in a very patriarchal (and Muslim) culture where men's football is SACRED and nothing else matters. So of course I couldn't care less about sports. This year, right before Olympics I discovered women's rugby entirely by chance and became mesmerized by the sport, by these athletes and by women's sports in general! It changed my mindset entirely. And I enjoyed many different women's sports during Olympics and now am a diehard follower of athletes like Ilona ❤ This interview was really great and I loved getting to know her
You have more subtitles than a that a Japanese game show.🥴🙄
@@bluebeastsrt cute comment super clearly put 🫡🦅
an hour is just never enough with Ilona
I see her getting a podcast soon!
two literal legends
“They’re going crazy in the adult leagues”😭 girl so real
Seriously tho! My team got a death threat. And we are just there to goof off. haha
Genuinely so jealous of Drew's interviewer skills, she's so effortless funny and quick, I've seen only a handful of these eps but already I can see how easily she makes the people feel comfortable and gets them talking with enthusiasm ❤
Collab we didn’t know we needed
Ilona is beautiful. I don’t understand why people go after her. I know why, they are jealous. I would date her if I could.
The eldest sibling convo was SO validating. How do the youngest kids get away with EVERYTHING? I was always so jealous of how it was so easy for them to do whatever they want.
My parents just got tired of being so strict so I could do more than my siblings (I'm the youngest of 3). Also, since they weren't so strict, I didn't have the urge to rebel and do crazy stuff, like my older siblings did. I think they realized that the more rules they put in place, the more the kids would want to push the boundaries and break them, so they weren't so strict with me
This was a fantastic interview/ chat with Ilona, I love how effortlessly the conversation flowed between two absolute QUEENZ
i’ve desperately been needing this 🙏
Soooo happy you put this on TH-cam! As I was watching it on Spotify I was thinking to myself “god I wish I could scroll through the comments of this video because I love it so much” lol
She's BEAUTIFUL!!! And I love how fierce she is in her sport but outside she's the literal definition of femininity (if there is such a thing). What a class act!
Two of the best, coolest, funniest people women in the world, ever, of all time, in any universe
the competition mindset is something i consistently struggle with. i HATE losing. im not a sore loser, i just hate losing. i did 9 sports in the span of 10 years and most of them i did for more than 4 years. softball for 10, soccer for 8, track for 6, XC for 2, cheer for 2, dance for 3, figure skating off and on for a while, wrestling for 1, and volleyball for 3. i am just very competitive as a person and i miss sports SO MUCH. i recently found out about an adult fastpitch softball league and i will 10000% be doing that. i still have a bunch of stuff and even if i have to buy new things, i know exactly what i need to buy and exactly what rules to follow. i just miss the competition so much.
I love Drew’s laugh. Congrats on the historic bronze and this great sisterhood!
I can't wait for Drew to have Sha'carri Richardson (I'm manifesting)
LOVE this episode!! Also, this sent me 🤣🤣“I also find you ugly, so it works out” 🤣🤣🤣 deceased 🤣💀
Rugby is my country's national sport. It's HUGE in New Zealand. I laughed hard at "Rugby is a niche sport." 🤣😂🤣
I'm from the UK... definitely not niche here either 😂
@@hanzib31 Still a minority, though.
I'm South African and I cackled 😂
@@hanzib31I'm from South Africa sooo I laughed really hard at that one 😂😂😂😂
@@w0033944world rugby has 118 countries in it... What are you even saying? It's a niche in America everywhere else it's pretty much a big sport
Yesssssss!!! I love her and her beautiful red lip I found her on social media during the Olympics and fell in love 😘 I didn't know woman played rugby and I'm so excited to see where her life goes!!!! Glad to see more woman being represented thank you for this content
I just wanna hug Ilona. She seems super cool. She is definitely a classic Leo, strength, fierce, boisterous.
Hearing you talk about big shoulders makes me feel so good! Loved every minute of your conversation ❤️
as a female working at autozone, her attacks at autozone crack me uppppp
Best collab i love this duo. I needed this video and message
Ilona is amazzinnggg
The best duo. Need more
“I wanna be just like her when I grow up” (me at 22)
you're such a great interviewer and sucha down person, i dont even care who the guest is, i know it'll be a good conversation and it'll be something i learn from.
IM SO HAPPY THIS IS ON TH-cam NOW
God this was such a good episode
I would love a podcast of them just talking about sports. Like a weekly sports news podcast as a girl who loves sports. When was talking about Rugby changing her life, that how I feel about roller derby. Find a collective the is invested in your success.
YESSS I LOVVEEE ILONAAAA!!!!!
I adore both of you🩷🩷💫
Check in strong shoulder gang 💪🏻🫵🏻
Reporting for duty🫡 💪🏻
omg i’m from vermont, i’m a leo (aug 13) and i’ve never liked sports but ilona is my idol
So I used to think that I hated sports because men suck. Turns out I just hate sports. Thank you so much!
MY TWO FAVE QUEENS
I'm 5'8, which isn't super tall, but it's taller than average and pairing that with the fact that I have never been skinny, I've always felt big. Sometimes I feel I have to be more feminine to diminish my size. I'm still working on being okay with myself just being bigger and actually taking up space, which is so hard when women are expected to be more demur and small
Really well said. I’m 6’ so I feel you, and it’s not easy to set aside everything society is screaming at us. Because it’s screaming such trash! But keep it up. You set your own standards. Take up space. We get to decide what feminine is for ourselves, and that’s beautiful, just like you ❤
Shout out Ilona Maher pride of Hamden CT and QU 🥳
2 of my heroes! ❤❤
She would’ve been perfect as Abby in the last of us season 2!
I think men refer to muscular women as masculine because they don’t think of women as being able to be muscular. Ilona is NOT masculine. She’s very feminine. And she has muscles. Win win. I don’t get why men talk about the two things like they’re mutually exclusive. Also I need to know if she does hair glosses or something because her hair is so shiny. Like Madison Beer hair
Small and weak - easy to overpower. Made to feel less than - easy to manipulate.
It's all for control and it's all a predatory mindset. Men who are capable of dating strong, intelligent, confident women are likely to be more secure and safe to be around...and are also rare.
In the most respectful way - this is the stuff of my wet dreams, emotionally, physically and intellectually. Fucking love you both ugh
I would love to see Drew interview Parris Goebel, just want to manifest that into the ether rn
We don't deserve the two of you in the same room, But we will certainly consume it!
OHHH MYYYY GODDDD
Me, the former college rugby player and powerlifter who now plays tackle football and does strongman: I used to be tough
IILONA ur amazing!!! 🙏✨️
Large and In Charge Women run the world! ❤
i love when beautiful women are on my screen
QUEENS QUEENS QUEENS
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR
this is how I learn me and ilona share a birthday
This is fucking gold ♡ omg she is fucking GORGEOUS ♡♡♡
gosh Ilona is so prettyyyyyyyyyyy
ME AND MY BESTIE WERE CALLED THE GIGGLE TWINS TWO BROOOO
I’ve never clicked on a video so fast. WE LOVE ILONA!!!
Ilona is so fucking funny dude😂😂😂
Anyone else starting singing Hilary Duff at the end?? Just me?? ok
Rugby is only a niche sport in the states. As a South African it's just our thing iykyk *coughs in 4x world champs*
You guys have been too good recently, signed and Englishman.
Okay let’s not use the excuse of “prey drive”. We are humans, not animals, who can control our impulses. If it’s being used to just let people off the hook for inappropriately behavior then that’s not it. This coming from someone who is insanely competitive.
Boulder shoulder gang
LETS GO!!!!!
actually couldn’t focus on anything but her arms damn 🤯🤯
If only Ilona were into women 😭
Omg I have the same bday as Ilona 🤪 Leo queen ♌️♥️
caitlyn clark on the pod when!!!!
Omg yaaaasssssss
Me watching this trying to have a baby with a 6’5 husband🥴🫠
CAN SOMEONE INTRODUCE HASAN PIKER TO ILONA MAHER PLEASE
I already manifested Miss pink pony club herself, Sabrina Carpenter is next
Ilona having the same bday as me. I love her even more now #leoqueen 💗
"not Barthelona"
Ilona if ur seeing this im a 6’5” athletic man from a loving big family will u plz marry me
Those comments are awful.
great episode i genuinely love it, however i came to say your real asf for being self conscious about them pretty grippers thats a 8.8/5 on wikifeet babe🤷🏾♀️
She is so hot, i love Ilona!!!! And Drew!!
Not TH-cam running Trump ads on this video 💀
Thats what youtube does alot now
Wow
When any american athlete can be tested on drugs by authority, then you are olympian...
Her representation is incredible but it’s not impactful for the fat community so we have to stop pretending like it is.
That's a man,baby!
Finally good representation for us August Leo’s 💯🫶🏻
a former crappy HS rugby player Iilona is my hero 🩷🏉
QUEEN OF QUINNIPIAC UNIVERISTY CT REPRESENTTTTT
**SCREAMING**
If people could do sports in full drag? A lot more people would watch. Like me. I’m people.