Interview: Kristin Duquette and Lacey Henderson on COVID and disability in sport

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Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We've split our interviews off and they will publish on Thursdays as stand-alone episodes. Jessica talks with Kristin Duquette, a disability advocate and former Team USA swimmer, and Lacey Henderson, a current Paralympian and host of the podcast Picked Last In Gym Class, about their own athletic journeys, disability in sports, and COVID-19. This episode was produced by Martin Kessler. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-down Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, y'all?
0:01.5	It's Drusky, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew
0:03.6	to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast
0:05.8	called The Do Zone with Drewski.
0:07.7	Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers
0:09.4	and celebrities like Jamal Murray.
0:11.1	Did you have like a favorite team?
0:12.6	Was it The Raptors at the time or no?
0:14.5	Was the Raptors even started around that time?
0:16.1	Come on, bro.
0:16.7	I ain't that old, Phil.
0:18.2	You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, Asian Wilson, and many more.
0:21.7	You won't want to miss this.
0:22.9	Listen to The Do Zone with Drewski on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:26.9	Hi, Flamethrowers, Jessica Luther here.
0:43.1	As we announced on Tuesday, we're now releasing our interviews as separate standalone episodes, which will drop on Thursdays.
0:49.6	We asked our patrons for feedback, and y'all told us you wanted shorter episodes, but we didn't want to
0:54.1	sacrifice time with our guests. We also hope this change will give us more room to go deeper in our
0:58.9	interviews. This week, we're including two interviews back-to-back. Both are about disability,
1:04.5	COVID-19, and sports. Here's the first. Okay, first, tell me who you are and what you do.
1:12.2	Hi, thank you so much for having me on. I'm Kristen Duquette. I don't know where to begin because I feel like I have lived about five different lives at this point.
1:24.1	Kristen Duquette is a former Team USA swimmer for the Paralympic League. She's a former Obama
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