Ep 146: WNBA Free Agency, Black History Month, and Jade Withrow from Cheer

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In this week's episode, Lindsay, Amira, and Shireen talk about the NBA All-Star Dunk Contest controversy, and break down all the WNBA free agency news (7:28.) Then, Amira interviews Jade Withrow from Cheer about.her experiences in competitive cheerleading and the reactions to the docuseries (21:12). Finally, the groups look at the history of some phenomenal black athletes and ties their stories to today's world in honor of Black History Month (39:17). As always, there's the Burn Pile (1:01:30), BAWOTW (1:12:40), and What's Good (1:15:44). For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check 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: teespring.com/stores/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	What's up y'all? It's Druski, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast called The Do Zone with Drewski.
0:07.7	Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like Jamal Murray.
0:11.1	Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no?
0:14.5	Was the Raptors even started around that time?
0:16.1	Come on, bro. I ain't that old, Phil. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, Asian Wilson, and many more.
0:21.7	You won't want to miss this.
0:22.9	Listen to The Do Zone with Drewski on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:40.5	Hello. up and I'll switch you out and I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout. Oh yeah.
0:41.2	Oh yeah.
0:48.7	Hello, everyone. And welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast that by episode 146, we hope you both want and need. My name is Lindsay Gibbs. I'm the author of the Power Play's newsletter.
0:58.1	And as you might have guessed already, I will be your host for today's podcast. And I am so
1:06.4	excited to be joined by my two dear friends and co-host, Shereen Ahmed in Toronto, Canada,
1:15.4	who I hear has some big time hot takes on the dunk contest, which we will get to very shortly.
1:22.9	Hi, Shereen. How are you? Good morning. I am mad, but we will talk about that. I'm really shocked that we have strong feelings out the gate. That's very unusual for us. So. And coming from the Penn State area herself, assistant, I forget where it is exactly in Pennsylvania. What's the name of that place? State
1:45.0	College. State College. I kept wanting to say College Park, but that's Maryland. So, anyways,
1:50.6	they're all very similar names, all these university towns. We've got Penn's assistant professor
1:57.3	of history in African American Studies. Is that correct? Did I do that right?
2:01.4	Yes, it is.
2:03.9	Dr. Amir Rose Davis. Hi. Hi. All right. I'm off to a really smooth start, so we're just going to keep going.
2:13.1	Today's episode, we are going to talk some W&BA free agency news, because as you might guess, that is
2:19.7	literally all I am thinking about these days. Then we're going to have a very exciting interview
2:26.2	for you. Amira interviewed Jade Withrow of Netflix's cheer about her experience and competitive
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