Episode 30: Native mascotry has to end, the unsurprising but terrible FIFA trial, and MLS playoffs

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, Amira Rose Davis, Shireen Ahmed, Brenda Elsey, Lindsay Gibbs, and Jessica Luther discuss why using native and/or indigenous people as mascots is bad and should stop, and they talk about the wild things unfolding in the FIFA trial and the need to keep caring even when we are exhausted and unsurprised by institutional corruption. Then Shireen interviews Arielle Castillo to talk about the Major League Soccer (MLS) playoffs. As always, you’ll hear the Burn Pile, Bad Ass Woman of the Week, and what’s good in our worlds. For more info check our website: http://www.burnitalldownpod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.1	Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no?
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0:22.9	Listen to The Do Zone with Drusky on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:31.2	Hey, hey, the Spire, it's burning us.
0:35.3	Oh.
0:37.0	Hey, it's fire. It's burning it all Hate this fire, it's burning us.
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0:46.3	Welcome to Burn It All Down.
0:48.2	It may not be the feminist sports podcast you want, but it's the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:53.8	We have everyone back together this week,
0:55.9	sports writers Lindsay Gibbs, Shereen Ahmed, and Jessica Luther, and historians Brenda Ellsley and me,
1:02.0	Amira Rose Davis. This week, we will build off last week's brief burn of the NFL's tone-deaf
1:07.3	decision to have the Washington football team play on Thanksgiving, with a deeper
1:11.7	discussion of the use or rather misuse of native mascots and imagery.
1:16.5	Then we will turn to FIFA and all of its awfulness, and Shireen will also interview writer,
1:21.6	reporter, and senior editor of MLSS Soccer.com, Adiel Castillo, about the MLS playoffs.
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