Hour 2: North Stars
First Take
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We've grown up surrounded by beauty ideals that promised confidence, but often delivered shame. |
| 0:05.5 | In a special episode of a millennial mind, I sat down with Nicola Adams to explore how |
| 0:10.4 | appearance-based compliments and body talk shape our self-worth without us realizing it. |
| 0:15.9 | In partnership with the Dove Self-Esteen project, we unpack the tools to change the conversation |
| 0:20.6 | for ourselves and for future generations. Listen now and download the... with the Dove Self-Eesteem Project, we unpack the tools to change the conversation for |
| 0:21.1 | ourselves and for future generations. Listen now and download the free body confidence journal |
| 0:26.4 | at Dove.com forward slash Y2K. |
| 0:30.5 | We have another Wednesday night baseball match up on ESPN, ESPN de Portes, the Red Sox, |
| 0:36.5 | facing the Phillies. Coverage begins at 7 Eastern. We know the stakes. We know the situation. I'm not sure pressure would be the word I would use, but we know the expectations we have for ourselves. So playoff, Super Bowl, AFC championship, that's the expectation around here. so we've got to get back to it. It's football. |
| 0:54.7 | Everything not grew all away, man. |
| 0:52.1 | You know, before it was like, oh, you can't win the playoff game. No, we won a playoff game. We got to the LFC Championship two years ago, and we just fell short, like two games short this year. Oh, the ball was dropped. He had the two-point conversion in his hands. When we come back, I feel like we're going to have vinges on our mind. |
| 1:45.5 | This year, the Browns have the league's most intriguing quarterback room. In life and everything, it's just me versus me. You know, I can't control any other decision besides that, so I just try to be my best self. Aaron Rogers headed to Pittsburgh. I'm pretty sure this is it. I played 20 freaking year. We better place to finish than in one of the cornerstone franchises of the NFL in the city that expects you to win. Show to whoever cut that montage. I like it. Got me hype for football season. Training camps underway. And we're taking around the league in a summer installment. We're calling divisional takes. And today we're kicking off with the AFC North. |
| 1:48.6 | So the AFC North looks to be competitive once again. |
| 1:53.1 | Two of the top five quarterbacks, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson residing in that division. |
| 1:56.9 | To stay relevant, the Steelers went out, signed Aaron Rogers to a one-year deal. |
| 2:02.4 | They hope he'll be the key to finally winning in the postseason, something they haven't done. |
| 2:05.7 | Ryan Clark, our former Steelers, since when? |
| 2:07.5 | That's a long time ago. |
| 2:08.7 | 2017. |
| 2:12.2 | My goodness, that is not the Steeler way. |
| 2:16.9 | Do you think Rogers will lead Pittsburgh to the playoff the season? Yes. Yes. And is that enough? |
| 2:19.1 | Yeah, like, no, it's not. The standard is different, right? But the standard has lessened. |
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