Ep 268: Live from Bowling Green State University

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Burn It All Down was recorded in front of a live audience at Bowling Green State University on March 27, 2025.

We’re back...for a single live show. We are not resuming weekly shows at this point, but we do have another live show scheduled at the end of May in Gatineau, Canada (more on that to come).

If you are interested in bringing BIAD to your location for a live show, please contact us through our website: https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/

EPISODE SUMMARY:

This week, Shireen, Lindsay, Amira, Brenda, and Jessica talk about sports at, what feels like, the end of the world. They discuss the dissonance and relationship between all the good that is happening within sports and the brutal societal attack on trans people’s civil rights, especially on trans girls and women in sports, the rollback of diversity/equity/inclusion on college campuses as athletes begin to secure more labor rights, and the United States’ horrific isolationist and nationalist movements as the US, Mexico, and Canada get ready to host some of the world’s biggest international sporting events.

And, as always, you’ll hear the Burn Pile and Torchbearers, starring, well, us.

EPISODE NOTES:

We want to thank Dr. Vikki Krane, the Social Justice through Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium, Amy J. Kolk, and everyone else at BGSU for bringing us back together for a live show. A special shout out to Phil Beskid for recording all of our audio.

This episode was produced by Martin Kessler. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The following episode of Burn It All Down was recorded in front of a live audience at Bowling Green University in March 2025.
0:08.0	While we will not be resuming weekly shows at this time, we are still doing the occasional live show, including at least one more this spring, so stay on the lookout for that.
0:19.0	If you are interested in bringing Burn It All Down to your
0:22.6	location to do a live show, feel free to contact us through our website, burnitalldownpod.com.
0:29.6	We'd love to work something out. We will also be releasing the question and answer portion
0:35.5	of this live show as a separate episode link. That should
0:39.6	hit your feed soon as well. Until then, burn on, nod out, and enjoy the show.
0:56.0	Welcome to burn it all down. I'm playing with your babies to the screaming shout, oh yeah. Oh yeah.
0:57.0	Welcome to Burn It All Down.
1:00.0	I know.
1:01.0	The feminist sports podcast you need.
1:04.0	I'm Amira Rose Davis, and if you're wondering why we're a little emotional,
1:08.0	this is the first podcast we've done together in two years.
1:13.6	I didn't think Amir was going to be the first to cry.
1:18.6	Jess was the first to be, to be clear.
1:22.6	We are so happy to be reunited for this live show at Bowling Green University in Ohio.
1:33.3	We want to send many thanks to Vicki and Jen and the whole team at Bowling Green that invited us and brought us back together after way too long apart.
1:45.0	So, like we said, this is very special and we might get emotional, but also we're a little bit wild,
1:51.0	so we're going to go through multiple emotions with you tonight.
1:54.0	So before we get into the thick of the show, for our listeners, our flamethrowers at home,
1:59.0	and everybody here live with us at Bowling Green,
2:01.6	we have not been together for two years.
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