Are you having an O.K. time?
It’s the de facto catchphrase for the hit Just Women’s Sports podcast, Snacks, hosted by soccer stars Sam Mewis and Lynn Williams. The slogan emerged from a story shared on the show by Sam’s sister, Kristie Mewis (also Williams’s U.S. and New Jersey/New York Gotham FC teammate), and fans quickly latched on, turning the episode into a cult classic. Now emblazoned on merch and printed on signs accenting the stands of USWNT and NWSL games, the tagline perfectly encompasses Snacks: an intimate, yet delightfully goofy, insider’s look into women’s soccer.
The phrase is also an apt expression of Mewis’s current state of mind. She is O.K., but it's taken a bit to get to this point, and the podcast in many ways is to thank for that. Snacks, which began in 2021, has assumed new weight in her life, with the 31-year-old largely away from the pitch since that August, when she underwent her first knee surgery. Mewis played in two Challenge Cup games in March 2022 but had another procedure on her knee in early ’23.
