4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2013
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another episode of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention? |
0:22.7 | This is Alonzo Bowden and it's been a week. |
0:26.6 | Been a hell of a week. |
0:27.6 | You know, today, I mean, I don't know if you believe in omens or anything, but the first |
0:32.5 | thing that happened today was I hit the button to turn on my coffee maker and it broke. |
0:36.8 | That is a bad sign. |
0:38.7 | Fortunately, I was able to jerry-rig it to work and I got some coffee, so we still have a show. |
0:45.0 | Because if there was no morning coffee, the day doesn't start. |
0:48.2 | So that was my omen for the day. |
0:51.3 | Other than that, everything's pretty good. |
0:53.7 | I'm here in L. l a it's 90 degrees outside |
0:56.9 | the santa anna winds are blowing fire season has begun hello springtime so what have we got this |
1:05.4 | this week we have to start i have to start as a sports fan you You guys know I love basketball. Jason Collins came out this |
1:15.5 | week. On Monday, he wrote an editorial op-ed, open letter, whatever you want to call it, for Sports |
1:24.0 | Illustrated, and he's gay. Jason Collins, 34-year-old center in the NBA, |
1:33.2 | seven feet tall, 255 pounds. I don't think anybody's going to be calling him names, |
1:39.2 | at least not to his face. All kidding aside, this was phenomenal. |
1:45.6 | Obviously, we all knew that one day a major sports athlete, you know, football, baseball, |
1:51.7 | basketball, hockey was going to come out and say he's gay and the world would have to |
1:56.9 | deal with it. |
1:58.0 | And Jason Collins is a guy. |
2:00.8 | The support was immediate and nearly unanimous. |
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