Ep. 222: Myths of Morality and Inspiration

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jessica Luther and Amira Rose Davis are together -- in person! -- to breakdown two (of countless) harmful myths in sport. First: that all coaches are altruistic, good and have a strong moral compass (using Urban Meyer as a perfect example of how this is not true). Second, that women's sports exist only to be inspirational. Following this discussion is a preview of Shireen Ahmed's interview with Jashvina Shah and Evan Moore about their book, "Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It." Then, they burn some of the garbage in sports this week on the Burn Pile. Next, they celebrate those shining light in sports, including Torchbearer of the Week pioneering journalist, Claire Smith, who will be the new co-director of the Claire Smith Center for Sports Media at Temple University. They wrap up the show with what's good in their worlds and what they are watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg, with production help from Kelly Jones. 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	Welcome to burn it all down.
0:02.6	And I'm here with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.6	Oh, yeah.
0:09.9	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:13.5	I'm Jessica, and I'm here with Amira.
0:15.3	Hello.
0:16.2	This week we're going to talk about two myths in sports that are on our minds, the idea that
0:20.1	that coaches are morally good because they are coaches, and that women's sports exist in large part to be inspirational.
0:26.9	Obviously, that means we will be talking about the NWSL, but we're also going to be talking about Urban Meyer.
0:32.1	Urban fucking Meyer.
0:33.7	And we'll burn things that deserve to be burned, highlight the torch bears who are giving us hope
0:37.6	during this dark time, let you know what's good in our world, and tell you what we're watching
0:41.8	this week. But first, before we get into all of that, Amira, we're sitting in the same room right now.
0:46.3	We are sitting together. I find it actually quite honestly hilarious. As you know, I moved to
0:51.4	Austin in July, and I live six minutes from one Jessica Luther.
0:55.2	And so for almost three months, two months, some amount of months, we have been living that
1:01.2	close to each other.
1:01.7	And seeing each other.
1:02.5	And seeing each other all the time.
1:04.5	And yet we had to go to Houston two and a half hours south of us to actually get in a room and record together so we are
1:12.5	here in Houston we're actually at the 28th floor of a hotel downtown so we have a beautiful view
1:19.3	of the skyline I'm actually looking at Minimade Park they have the roof open Astros just one their second
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