Ep 68: Tiger Woods’ Return, the Women’s Baseball World Cup, and the ATL Dream’s Elizabeth Williams

Burn It All Down

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4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this week’s show, Amira and Jessica are joined by guest co-host Shakeia Taylor. At the top of the show, the group discusses the legacy of Aretha Franklin (5:42). Then they get into our cultural obsession with Tiger Woods (14:06) before turning to a discussion of the upcoming Women’s Baseball World Cup (26:47). Then Lindsay talks with Elizabeth Williams of the Atlanta Dream about Atlanta’s phenomenal second half of the season, the WNBA playoffs, and whether we should expect the players to opt out of their current collective bargaining agreement on October 31 (41:06). Of course, you’ll hear the Burn Pile (50:08), our Bad Ass Woman of the Week, starring the US Women’s National Softball team (52:22), and what is good in our worlds (56:30). To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.9	Coors Brewing Company, Golden Colorado. Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
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1:01.4	I'm Jessica Luther, freelance journalist and author in Austin, Texas.
1:05.3	And on today's show, I'm joined by Amira Rose Davis, an assistant professor of history and women's, gender, and sexuality
1:11.6	studies at Penn State University. And we have a special co-host this week, Shakia Taylor,
1:16.7	a writer in Chicago, Illinois, who loyal listeners will recognize from a recent baseball-themed
1:21.7	hot take here on Burn It All Down. We are thrilled to have Shakia back and for an entire
1:26.5	episode.
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1:51.3	For our August segment, which went up last week, each of us picks someone in sports we feel
1:55.3	is unfairly maligned, and we defended them.
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