Ep. 249: Champs League Finals Argued in the Court of Luther

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Shireen Ahmed, Jessica Luther and Brenda Elsey convene in the Court of Luther to discuss the men's and women's Champs League Finals. But first, they discuss the importance of access to abortion. Then, the Court of Luther commences to determine who Judge Jessica Luther will root for in the Champs League Finals. In the men's final, which takes place May 28, Shireen argues on behalf of Liverpool FC and Brenda argues for Real Madrid. On the women's side, which takes place May 21, Shireen argues for Lyon and Brenda for Barcelona. Judge Luther then gives her final ruling. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of two interviews this week: Shireen's interview with boxing commentator Corey Erdman about calling the recent historic fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano. And, Jessica talks with Hanif Abdurraqib, poet, essayist and cultural critic, about his love for basketball, where he'd like to see the W expand and the NBA playoffs. Next, they burn the worst of sports this week on the Burn Pile. Then, they celebrate those making sports better including Torchbearers of the Week, the Australian women’s rugby team who won the final of the World Rugby Sevens series and Sam Kerr, the Australian footballer whose stunning goals helped Chelsea take the Women's Super League and award her the Golden Boot. 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.
0:03.0	And I'm joined you out.
0:04.4	And I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:13.7	I'm Shereen and I'm joined by Brenda and Jessica.
0:17.5	Today on the show, we will be talking about the Champions League of football. Yes, folks, it is
0:25.0	that time. Brendan, I will go head to head in a debate to convince Jessica Luther, superfan
0:31.2	of Austin FC, even though it's an MLS team, absolutely that she should be fully, emotionally,
0:40.4	psychologically invested in the Champions League.
0:44.6	But before we start, we need to talk about a pressing issue.
0:48.6	United States is on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade.
0:52.3	All I have to say about that is Jesus fucking Christ.
0:56.6	This is alarming and enraging. Now, before I get into it, I do realize that I am situated in Canada, which is occupied territory of indigenous and native
1:02.1	communities. Canada is not immune to poorer. And when we've seen the debate of this, we've seen
1:07.0	white women be like, oh, it's not going to happen here. Let me remind everybody, until 2019 indigenous women in this country were sterilized against
1:15.9	their will.
1:16.8	Black women continuously received mistreatment when it comes to reproductive health.
1:21.5	We did speak about all of this and more in episode 220, but we wanted to share some more
1:26.9	information about it.
1:28.9	I will say that athletes, coaches, and sports personalities have been speaking up,
1:33.1	and we are sharing some of their thoughts.
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