Women's Basketball: A Mirror for America [TEASER]

Gaslit Nation

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🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Reminder! Join us Tuesday for the live taping of Gaslit Nation at 12pm ET with investigative journalist Craig Unger, author of the bestselling books House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery. A Zoom link will go out the morning of the event to our subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher! To our supporters at the Democracy Defender level and higher, message us your questions for our interview with Craig Unger!

In this week's Gaslit Nation bonus show, Terrell Starr of the essential Black Diplomats Podcast & Substack joins Andrea to discuss the Caitlin Clark phenomenon, as well as the racism and misogyny targeting this golden age of women's basketball. This isn't just about sports; it's a seismic shift in the way we discuss gender and race. We need better conversations—more nuanced, more empathetic—about these topics, and we need to recognize the lived experiences of those involved. The dialogue around women's sports is riddled with misogyny and cultural clashes, and it's high time we confront and dismantle these toxic narratives. So, let's give Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Bueckers, Cameron Brink, and their peers the respect they deserve, and in doing so, make strides toward a more equitable future in sports.

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June 25th is George Orwell's birthday! Come celebrate with us at a live taping of Gaslit Nation, featuring another fearless journalist, Craig Unger, the author of several bestselling books: House of Trump, House of Putin; House of Bush, House of Saud; and American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (which features his reporting on Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile global crime syndicate). Joining the live-taping will be Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and European analyst Monique Camarra of Kremlin File. Drop your questions in the chat! Be sure to subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit at the Truth-teller tier ($5/month) or higher to get your ticket. A zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event. Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to this week's bonus show. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. If you haven't seen it yet, why not? Anyhow, this week,
0:24.0	Terrell's star of the Essential Black Diplomats podcast and Substack is on the show explaining
0:30.5	basketball to me. So stick around for that important and lively conversation. It's actually
0:36.5	one of our best ever. It's wonderful.
0:39.8	We actually for a minute thought we did not record it because Terrell is in Ukraine,
0:45.3	in Leviv, Ukraine, and the Russians have been bombarding the infrastructure there deliberately
0:50.2	to terrorize Ukrainians in their attempt to conquer the entire country, make it unlivable.
0:56.6	So Terrell's electricity, like many people based in Ukraine, has been unreliable.
1:01.3	Luckily, we have this conversation saved.
1:03.5	It is a great one about misogyny, racism, and this golden moment of women's basketball.
1:09.6	Obviously, there's a lot of talk on this, but nothing like you've heard here on Gaslit Nation.
1:15.3	Just a reminder, we have our big live taping this Tuesday, Orwell's birthday, June 25th.
1:22.1	We're going to be celebrating with another fearless journalist, and that is Krug Unger,
1:26.9	author of House of Trump, House of Putin,
1:29.5	House of Bush, House of Saad, an American compromise.
1:33.5	The ladies of the Kremlin File podcast will be there to join me in that conversation,
1:38.1	including Russian mafia expert, O'Gallotman, who is a investigator who has helped Craig Unger with his reporting, including into
1:46.9	Trump's decade-long dependency on the Russian mafia and all sorts of dirty Russian money.
1:52.7	Come to that live taping.
1:54.3	That's noon Eastern.
1:56.0	Ask questions in the Q&A.
1:57.2	I'm so excited for that.
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