Fouling Caitlin Clark; plus, a shoplifting panic!

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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First up, there has been a media frenzy around the fouls made against rising basketball star and Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark. Commentators and fans have called her fellow WNBA players bullies, jealous, and catty. But Code Switch co-host Gene Demby and Defector's Maitreyi Anantharaman say a lot of the people commenting misunderstand the WNBA. Host Brittany Luse learns what the new fans might be missing and how racism, sexism and homophobia could be fanning the flames of the latest hot takes. Brittany also leads Gene and Maitreyi through a game of "But Did You Know."

Then, what is up with all the deodorant being locked up in stores? It's not just you, it's a peculiar nationwide trend that Brittany is trying to understand. Vox policy correspondent Abdallah Fayyad and The Marshall Project's engagement editor Nicole Lewis join the show to explain how this is related to a big shoplifting panic and what it could mean for the shelf life of certain crime policies across the country.

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0:00.0	On the TED Radio Hour, NYU Professor Scott Galloway says older Americans have failed to live up to the social contract between generations.
0:10.0	We talk a lot about income inequality, but we don't talk a lot about generational inequality.
0:14.0	But we have purposely transferred wealth and opportunity from young people to old people.
0:19.0	Generation Gaps.
0:21.0	That's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR.
0:23.7	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to it's been a minute from
0:31.1	NPR. A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen
0:36.0	by accident. This week we're connecting the dots between Culture Wars, Hot Takes, and Basketball.
0:50.0	I know, I know.
0:51.4	How are all these things connected?
0:53.7	Well we're gonna find out with Jean Denby,
0:55.7	co-host of NPR's Code Switch and My Three Anant-Thoraman,
0:59.4	who covers the W-MBA for Defector.
1:01.6	Gene, My-3, welcome to it's been a minute.
1:03.7	What's good with you, Brittany?
1:04.7	So good to be here.
1:05.5	Thanks for having me, Brittany.
1:06.8	Oh, it's so good to have you both.
1:08.1	Okay, so you're both Wnba fans, right?
1:12.8	Well, a lot has been happening in the league lately,
1:15.8	so I want to know, in one word,
1:18.1	how do you feel about the WMBA's seemingly sudden popularity?
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