Ep. 246: NBA Play-ins and Playoffs

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode, Jessica Luther, Amira Rose Davis and Lindsay Gibbs talk NBA Playoffs. But first, the team shares updates on their pets. Then, they discuss the benefits of the play-in format to the NBA playoffs, why they love to see emotion from athletes like Patrick Beverly and the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Celtics' momentum, how Covid-19 is impacting the series and predictions on who is going to win it all. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Jessica's interview with ESPN reporters Paula Lavigne and Tom Junod about their recent story on a Penn State football player who terrorized women in the 1970s. Next, they burn the worst of sports this week on the Burn Pile. Then, they celebrate those making sports better including Torchbearer of the Week Trinity Thomas, NCAA champion in the all-around, bars and floor. They wrap up the show with What's Good in their in their lives and What We're Watching in sports this week. 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	Welcome to burn it all down, and I'm joined you out.
0:04.4	And I'm playing with your babies to the screaming show.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:13.5	I'm Jessica, and today I'm joined by Amira and Lindsay.
0:17.0	On this week's show, we're going to talk about the NBA playoffs.
0:20.9	Then, as always, we'll have the burn pile, this week's torchbearers, what's good in our world, and what we're watching this week.
0:27.5	But first, before we get into all of that, I would like an animal update.
0:32.5	How are our animals doing these days, Lindsay, please tell me about Mo.
0:37.1	Mo is very happy that I'm healed from COVID
0:41.4	and that we can go back out into the world again. It was a long week and a half where I did not
0:50.0	have energy for walks and could not take him to the usual things that I take him to when I don't
0:55.1	have energy for walks or time for walks. So we had a good weekend. We went to the dog bar on Saturday
1:00.7	and then on Sunday for Easter. We went over to my aunts and I brought him and she has a
1:08.3	little puppy. So they played. So that was fun. So he had lots of
1:12.4	outings. Even though I'm feeling better today, it's raining and like 40 degrees today. So
1:17.8	no long walks for us today either. And it's all fine. He's all tired out. Oh, wow. I'm so
1:24.1	glad I asked about this because now I'm very happy. Now that I know all that about Mo, Amira, please tell me about my second favorite dog in Austin and your tiny little kitten.
1:35.5	Yeah, Scooby's good.
1:37.4	We got tuck.
1:38.9	Oh, there's Scooby.
1:40.0	He knew.
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