# Heated Rivalry Meets Tennis with Ben Rothenberg Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gay-tennis-podcast-7380141/heated-rivalry-meets-tennis-with-ben-rothenberg Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gay-tennis-podcast-7380141/heated-rivalry-meets-tennis-with-ben-rothenberg.md Podcast: [The Gay Tennis Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gay-tennis-podcast-7380141) Published: 2025-12-31T11:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-gay-tennis-podcast/episodes/heated-rivalry-meets-tennis-with-ben-rothenberg Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/647d28eec1e93b0011e33f02/e/69549fd9cb029db7575e5c19/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-gay-tennis-podcast-7380141/episodes/heated-rivalry-meets-tennis-with-ben-rothenberg Duration seconds: 5258 ## Resource Tony welcomes Bounces creator Ben Rothenberg back to talk about the show on everyone’s lips: Heated Rivalry. They get into:  Why this show became a phenomenon  Heated Rivalry vs Challengers  The importance of supportive women to gay men Ben’s hockey background  Gay male professional athletes coming out  What we want from Heated Rivalry Season 2 Follow Ben on Twitter , and read his latest Second Serve article . And here’s a link to the Challengers Review episode we mention. For more from us, you can follow along Twitter or Instagram .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-gay-tennis-podcast-7380141/episodes/heated-rivalry-meets-tennis-with-ben-rothenberg/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-gay-tennis-podcast-7380141/heated-rivalry-meets-tennis-with-ben-rothenberg.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.