The Flagship: Latest on Longhorns request for change, featuring special guest Nate Boyer

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4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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It's been far from a boring week around the University of Texas after black student athletes submitted their requests for changes on campus to make the Longhorns' home more equal for black students. Included in the list of demands was the removal of several statues, changing facility names, renaming buildings on campus, among many other requests. However, one of the most significant requests was the student-athletes asking to end their requirement of participating in the Eyes of Texas due to some racial overtones from when the song was debuted. In this week's episode of The Flagship Podcast, Horns247 columnist Chip Brown and managing editor Taylor Estes weigh in on the player's demands for change at Texas, including their stance on the situation surrounding the Eyes of Texas. The hosts also discuss some other news, including the positive COVID-19 tests after Texas welcomed back a large group of football players to campus to begin voluntary summer workouts and how the Longhorns have added more depth back to the receiver room with redshirt freshman wide receiver Kennedy Lewis making his return to the team from his spring semester suspension. Taylor and Chip then welcome in a very special guest in former Texas deep snapper and US Army Green Beret Nate Boyer, whose meeting with former 49ers QB Colin Kapernick led to Kap kneeling for the National Anthem rather than sitting on the bench. Boyer weighs in on the black student-athletes requests for change at the University of Texas and gives his thoughts on racial injustice in this country in the aftermath of George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. As always, we thank Nate Boyer for his service to our country in defending the freedoms we have each and every day. Taylor and Chip close out the show with their weekly 'Love it or Leave it' segment, with this week's topics including the impact of Lewis' return to the team, is the Eyes of Texas should forever go into retirement and if the Longhorns two recent commitments — four-star safety JD Coffey and four-star cornerback Ishmael Ibraheem — brought in the best news for Texas since the start of 2020. Catch all of that and more on this week’s episode of The Flagship Podcast. The Flagship Podcast — featuring co-hosts Chip Brown and Taylor Estes with Horns247 publisher Bobby Burton as a frequent contributor — hits the airwaves each Wednesday, and centers around all the latest happenings surrounding the University of Texas and college athletics, with big-name guests joining the show on a weekly basis. The Flagship is available on a multitude of platforms — including iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts — so make sure to subscribe to the Horns247 podcast channel on all platforms to have the latest episodes available to you at all times, and head on over to iTunes and give our Horns247 family of podcasts a five-star rating! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	No home. No address. No address. No bank account. No bank account. No job. No job. No home. No address. No bank account. No job. No bank account. No job. No home. It's time to break the vicious circle.
0:22.0	We're working with charities like Shelter to provide a bank account for people who are homeless.
0:27.2	Search HSBCUK, no fixed address.
0:35.6	Welcome in everyone to another episode of the flagship podcast.
0:41.4	I am joined by the managing editor, the Grand Puba, the chief bottle washer, the brains behind the operation, the one and only Taylor Estes.
0:52.6	Taylor, how you doing?
0:53.9	I'm doing great, Chip.
0:54.7	How about you?
0:55.9	Oh, my goodness.
0:57.1	I'm just trying to stay safe and keep the faith.
0:59.7	That's all we can do.
1:01.6	Yes.
1:02.2	And ride this wave to the end.
1:05.1	Hopefully, hopefully.
1:06.6	Hopefully.
1:08.3	Taylor, an unbelievable week we have to talk about, for sure.
1:13.3	We've got a great guest, too.
1:16.2	My goodness, the one and only Nate Boyer, he is certainly right in the middle of all of the social conscience conversation going on right now with regard to Colin Kaepernick
1:29.8	and what exactly did he say to Kaepernick in their conversations about whether to kneel
1:35.7	or for Kaepernick to sit on the bench. We'll hear it all from Nate Boyer and we'll go in
1:42.5	depth into who he is. How did he come to join our U.S. military special
1:49.7	forces and become a man who served his country at the highest level and then had a dream of
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