Ep. 251: Pole Positions, Burning Rubber and the Checkered Flag: A Formula One Conversation

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode, Amira Rose Davis and Jessica Luther dive deep into Formula One racing. But first, they discuss their favorite show tunes. Then, they put the pedal to the metal on F1. Inspired by the Netflix series Drive to Survive, Amira and Jessica discuss the current racing season, the interdrama of the F1 world, the way drivers navigate power and money and how the TV how has increased US fandom for this global sport. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Amira's interview with Myron Rolle about his transition from the NFL to neuroscience. 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, the USWNT and USMNT CBA for equal pay! 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 am joined you out.
0:04.5	And I'm playing with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.6	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the sports podcast you need.
0:14.4	It's Amira here, and I am joined by the one and only Jessica Luther.
0:18.9	Hey, Jess.
0:19.7	Hi, Amira.
0:20.6	How are you? I'm good. I'm excited to be here. I am Jess. Hi, Amira. How are you?
0:21.4	I'm good.
0:22.0	I'm excited to be here.
0:23.1	I am excited too because me and Jessica have been waiting.
0:26.8	What has felt like forever in reality is basically three weeks.
0:30.9	To do this episode we're going to do today all about Formula One.
0:37.2	Yes. Now, maybe you're long-term Formula One fans and you are now
0:41.6	sitting up, turning the volume up, and you're like, finally it's taken five years. If you are about
0:48.6	to hit pause because you have no idea why we're so excited to talk about F1. Do not turn this off. Come with us on this
0:58.2	adventure and maybe you too will become a F1 fan. But before we get into all of that fun motor
1:06.5	racing, first of all, my voice, Jessica, is such a mess because I have spent the last four or five
1:14.4	days screaming at Samari shows. She had her back to Broadway showcase with her pre-professional
1:22.1	theater company. Jessica went with me on opening night. I was screaming. Then, of course,
1:26.7	I went to the Austin FC game last night, which was a fever dream.
1:31.1	It was chaos.
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