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🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is Undaunted Life A Man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it. |
0:24.7 | Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, W. E. B. Du Bois, |
0:35.8 | Gwendolyn Berry. Now, most of those names you're familiar with, but probably that last one, |
0:42.3 | Gwendolyn Berry. I mean, it's a beautiful name. But why would that name be on the list with all |
0:47.3 | those other people? Well, guys, I don't know if you know this, but we have a brand new civil rights |
0:52.0 | hero amongst us, right? Now, if we shorten the name, it becomes Gwyn Berry. You know, |
0:56.6 | it slides off the tongue real nicely, but Gwyn Berry is now to be held in the same regard as Harry |
1:03.1 | Tubman and Martin Luther King, Jr. And sojourner Truth and Rosa Parks and W. E. B. Du Bois. And |
1:08.0 | everybody else that you could possibly think of, that is a civil rights hero. Because this is a name |
1:13.8 | now, Gwyn Berry. There's a name that we will forever remember as one of the greatest civil rights |
1:19.6 | activists of our time. So if you don't know why Gwyn Berry is now this special person in US |
1:25.2 | history, let me go ahead and kind of break it down for you. So on Saturday, June the 26th. So |
1:28.8 | this is last Saturday, Gwyn Berry was competing at the US Olympic trials. Yes. The United States |
1:34.8 | Olympic trials. That is a very important point that we'll get more into a little bit later. |
1:39.3 | And she was competing in the amazing event that we've all been waiting for, that we're just waiting |
1:44.5 | for the prime time coverage of. And that's women's hammer throw. Okay. So Gwyn Berry, she placed |
1:52.1 | third at the qualifications at the trial. So she did qualify for the Olympics for the US team. |
1:57.7 | But since she only got third in her own country, it's not likely that she will do anything |
2:02.0 | significant wants to Tokyo games roll around because that's international competition. And she |
2:06.4 | couldn't even win her own country. But hey, she placed third. She was on the podium. It means she's |
2:10.3 | on the team. But when she went over to the podium to stand there and get her picture taken and do |
2:15.7 | all those different things to to signify her third place finish, the national anthem of the United |
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