Ep. 252: EQUAL PAY!!!

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lindsay Gibbs, Shireen Ahmed and Brenda Elsey discuss the historic equal pay CBA for the USWNT and USMNT. But first, they hold space for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Then, the team recaps why the new collective bargaining agreement between the US Soccer Federation and the US Women's National Team and US Men's National Team is so historic and how they got to this agreement. They discuss USSF's new relationship with the NWSL and MLS, new distribution of prize money and how the US is now contributing to a global ripple effect of equal pay that has both made so much progress and has to much more to go. They also discuss other soccer news, including the incredible UEFA Women's Champs League final viewership numbers and the horrible sexual abuse and harassment of referees and minor players all over the world. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Brenda's interview with Beth Paretta who is building a historic racing team full of women at Paretta Autosport. 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 University of North Carolina women’s lacrosse team who completed an undefeated season with national title. 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.
0:02.4	And I'm going to be leading to be able to scream and shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to Burn It All Down.
0:11.4	Lindsay here.
0:12.3	I'm going to be leading the way for today's episode.
0:16.3	And I'm so excited to be joined by Brenda and Shereen.
0:22.4	Hi, friends.
0:23.7	Hey, Lynn.
0:24.9	Look, later in the show, we're going to be mainly talking about women's soccer,
0:29.3	going over this equal pay deal, and, of course, taking a bigger picture look at everything,
0:34.5	like we always do.
0:36.1	There will be a burn pile.
0:37.4	There will be torchbearers, the usual.
0:39.7	But the top, we just kind of want to hold space.
0:42.5	It's been an excruciating week.
0:47.2	Even more excruciating than all the other excruciating weeks that we've had lately with the shooting in Yuvalde, Texas at the elementary school,
0:57.8	killing 19 children, two teachers. And I just kind of wanted to check in with my co-host
1:05.8	and kind of hold space for, I don't know, for everything right now.
1:12.2	It's been weird.
1:13.4	Like, as somebody who's not a parent, there's been so much of like, oh,
1:16.8	as parents, this hits especially hard.
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