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I'd like to request that you do a deeper dive of the subject of view sports.

The episode about gymnastics abuse and your discussion that followed about your son and the football team,

coach yelling, etc., really at home for me.

Nippy has the experience higher level athletics, so I imagine he's been on teams from childhood through college.

I'm very curious his thoughts.

Can you please consider doing a youth sports episode?

Explore this more.

As a mother of children, who played football, basketball, soccer, and gymnastics, I've seen many coaches. The archetypal yelling, degrading football coach was the first coach my son ever had. However, he did coach the kids to win their league's version of the Super Bowl, and it did mark a glorious moment in his youth. I think that's the gist of the question. And I think, yeah, it's a mixed bag. I tell you it was different when I was growing up to the point where, you know, kids' face masks were grabbed. And I find the higher up, the more intense it got. And to the point in college where I felt like I was playing for guys, well, I was, I was playing for guys whose jobs depended on it. And when you have people whose jobs

are dependent on it and you're not performing to their likeness, they come to work with that. And so

there's other things that are informing their behavior. So you have to make that decision. And

ultimately, I didn't like the atmosphere of football when I left. I felt it was too. I'm not

raw, raw like that. I'm more like I enjoy the game and throwing and same thing with basketball.

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