Muhammad Ali's Funeral: Live From Louisville
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. We are just back from Muhammad Ali's funeral in Louisville. |
| 0:11.2 | And in the wake of the Orlando shootings, the LGBT hate crime at the gay club Pulse, we really asked ourselves what we would do with this show. And the answer was simple. |
| 0:24.4 | There was no greater tribute to Muhammad Ali than the outpouring of love we saw in Louisville. |
| 0:30.8 | And there is no greater tribute that we can do than to push forward the message of this man's |
| 0:37.1 | life in the midst of all this hate |
| 0:38.9 | and to bring you the story of his remarkable Louisville send-off. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. Yeah, the streets are packed in Louisville. |
| 1:03.4 | People are lining up as far as the eye can see. |
| 1:07.4 | What they're doing for him today is words can't describe it. |
| 1:13.0 | The way to honor Muhammad Ali is to be Muhammad Ali today. |
| 1:15.6 | When people talk about, oh, well, you know, |
| 1:17.6 | Muhammad Ali is great because he stood up for what he believed in. |
| 1:19.8 | No, that's not it. |
| 1:21.5 | He stood for poor people. |
| 1:23.1 | He stood for underdogs. |
| 1:24.1 | He stood for peace. |
| 1:25.2 | He's black. |
| 1:33.4 | He was the greatest boxer of all time. And he's the hero of Louisville. That's all. Mahmah Ali, man, I love you, man. And you'll go down as the greatest man |
| 1:40.3 | ever walk the world, man. So you sleep easy, my brother. All right. |
| 1:46.4 | Later in the show, I will have some choice words about what I took away from Muhammad Ali's |
| 1:51.1 | service and why it has so much to teach us, especially in the wake of the Orlando killings. |
| 1:56.6 | I want to try to walk everybody through the day that was Muhammad Ali's funeral in Louisville. |
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