Ep. 258: Countdown to the Men's World Cup: A Clusterfuck

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jessica Luther, Shireen Ahmed and Brenda Elsey discuss what's going on (and not going on) as the Men's World Cup in Qatar nears. But first, they share their favorite foods they recently ate. Then, they talk about preparations for the Men's World Cup, which is less than 90 days away from starting on November 20. They discuss the mostly off-the-pitch mess, mystery and general clusterfuck that is happening in Qatar: from ridiculous lodging logistics to human rights violations to the bolstering of security and police in Qatar from around the globe. They also discuss the ways the conservative political regime may or may not confront travelers who break Qatari law and the unknown consequences of the cup for women and LGBTQ folks who live in Qatar. All of these issues are underscored by a lack of journalistic transparency, making the BIAD team wonder how anyone will know what is even going on during the tournament. Following this discussion, they preview a special Patreon segment about the Women's U20 World Cup. Then, you'll here a preview of this week's interview with Bradford William Davis, a journalist for Insider, on the latest in Major League Baseball. Next, they burn some of the worst in sports this summer on the Burn Pile. Then, they celebrate those shining light, including Torchbearer of the Week, Konnor McClain, the current US National All-Around Champion in gymnastics. They wrap up the show with What's Good 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.
0:02.6	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.
0:13.3	I'm Jessica.
0:14.2	And today I'm joined by Brenda and Shrine.
0:17.0	On this week's show, we're going to talk about the men's World Cup, which is now less than 90 days from its start and is logistically a mess, I think we could say.
0:26.5	Then we'll burn things that deserve to be burned, highlight the torchbearers who are giving us hope during this time,
0:31.7	let you know what's good in our world and tell you what we're watching this week.
0:34.9	This week we will also have a bonus segment for our patrons
0:37.6	about the U20 Women's World Cup, which is currently happening in Costa Rica. To hear that,
0:42.8	sign up to be a patron at patreon.com slash burn it all down. Before we do sports today, though,
0:48.6	I want to ask my co-hosts, a quick but important question. What is one thing that you have eaten recently that was like
0:56.7	spectacular brenda so there is a place in woodstock new york called peace love and cupcakes
1:03.7	appropriately and they name them all after different singers and i'm sorry i can't remember
1:09.9	what the one i like is called but it's this
1:11.9	coconut thing and I don't like sweet stuff really I know I was going to say I know I had to
1:19.0	struggle and I was like oh yeah there was that one cupcake that I liked and I didn't know that
1:24.2	coconut was controversial until like two years ago when people started coming out to me as like coconut haters.
1:30.1	And I really love it.
1:31.7	So it's hard to get coconut that's not fake, not too sweet.
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