2021 Best Of Burn It All Down Part 2

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In this episode Shireen Ahmed shares her favorite discussion (Episode 203: Climate Activism in Sport) and interview (NBA Vaccine Roundtable with Dr. Amira Rose Davis, Dr. Candis Smith, Dr. Courtney Cox and Dr. Brooklyne Gipson ) from 2021. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, flame throwering you up and I'll spend you out.
0:04.4	And I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Oh, yeah.
0:09.8	I want to wish you a very happy, prosperous, but above all, healthy 2022.
0:19.3	The resolution or goal that I'm looking forward to for 2022 is to actually
0:23.6	implement more self-care into my life. I feel like I'm going to start by not working seven days
0:29.4	a week. I think doing this really cool thing called taking Saturday off is wonderful.
0:35.4	And I'm going to try to channel the incredible words of Audrey Lord.
0:39.5	Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation. And that is an act of political
0:45.4	warfare. When I sat down to think about what segment I would select for Best of Biad, 2021,
0:51.3	there's one episode that stood out for me. It aired on April 27, 2021,
0:56.9	just in time for Earth Day, episode 203. This episode was incredibly important. I learned a lot from
1:04.5	Lindsay, Brenda, and Jessica about climate change, sports, and how the two are connected. And also to
1:10.2	quote, Dr. Maddie Orr, climate change is
1:13.4	racialized and it is gendered. Having athletes like American snowboarder Chloe Kim speak about it
1:19.2	really, really matters. It affects her generation so intensely. We are in a time and place
1:24.7	where athlete activism can impact social or public policy.
1:28.8	And why wouldn't we want this from the sports world?
1:31.3	On November 2nd, an article came out inside the games.
1:35.8	It says nearly 80% of athletes are seriously concerned about climate change,
1:40.0	and more than half claim it has already impacted them,
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