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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Before the highlights, Julie and Abby open with a moment of humanity. They process what’s happening in Minnesota, honoring lives lost, and sharing tangible ways to help, from donation links to calling your senators. Then it’s back to the women’s sports party: USWNT puts on a show (plus Trinity Rodman’s record-setting new deal), NCAA hoops delivers a statement game, and the Australian Open serves fashion and frost. And for the main event: Winter Games are almost here. Creator and writer Marissa Kumari Tandon joins the Party Buzz to break down Milan-Cortina storylines, women’s participation nearing parity, the comeback drama in alpine skiing, Chloe Kim’s chase for history, the figure skating contenders to know, and why the Winter Games are the ultimate stage for grit, risk, and underdog funding fights. Follow @welcometothepartyshow on: YouTube — @welcometothepartyshow Instagram — @welcometothepartyshow TikTok — @welcometothepartyshow Email — partypeoplequestions@gmail.com Follow Marissa Kumari Tandon @marissakumari on all platforms More information: Take action with your government officials: https://indivisible.org/get-involved/take-action/ How to Support Minnesota - Stand With Minnesota Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) - https://www.miracmn.com UNIDOS-MN - https://unidos-mn.org/@unidosm ACLU of MN - https://www.aclu-mn.org/@ACLUMN ISAIAH - https://www.isaiahmn.org/our-story MPLS Mutual Aid - @mplsmutualaid PowWow Grounds Coffee - @powwogroundscoffee Food Shelf - @joyceuptown Isuroon - @isuroonnonprofit Twin cities leather - @twincitiesleather Olympic Games Schedule: https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/schedule/overview Heated Rivalry: Hudson Williams and Connor Story, stars of HBO's "Heated Rivalry," carried the Olympic torch in Italy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLHxNajL7tM Thank you to our sponsors: -Shop tons of deals, including member-exclusive savings, all season long during the Season of Savings at https://www.shipt.com/ -Get your business data all in one place using Intuit Quickbooks. Visit https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ to learn more. -Join the loyalty program for renters at joinbilt.com/welcometotheparty Find a host or co-host at https://www.airbnb.com/host/homes -Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at SKIMS.com. After your place your order, be sure to let them know we sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and Welcome to the Party! -Join the loyalty program for renters at https://www.bilt.com/podcast-overview?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=podcast__test_awareness_prospecting_growth_welcometotheparty___ -Get an annual membership to http://shipt.com/ and order groceries delivered to your door with zero fees for orders over $35+. Download the app today. -Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at https://skims.com/. After your place your order, be sure to let them know we sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and Welcome to the Party!

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0:00.0	Attention.
0:02.0	The party is about to commence.
0:07.0	Oh, welcome to the party.
0:15.0	Abbs, before we talk women's sports, we felt there was an urgent need to start with some basic
0:26.3	humanity in honor of Renee Good and Alex Prattie. I do feel this country is desperate for some
0:34.5	humanity. And personally, I have consciously tried to avoid the news this past year for my own sanity.
0:46.5	Like so many of us.
0:47.5	Because everything, yeah, everything about the lack of empathy and so much narcissistic behavior in the news every night it just
0:56.2	literally sickened me but what I realized this weekend is that only makes me part of
1:03.8	the problem because that's exactly what they want they want us to turn away
1:08.6	they want us to not see or comment on the cruelty because we're not paying attention. And I realize that burying my head in the sand to avoid the inhumanity of it all only amplifies the inhumanity of it all. That silence only feeds the problem.
1:28.3	I'm going to speak up because what's happening in Minneapolis and what is happening all over this country,
1:38.3	we just, we cannot live like this. We cannot.
1:42.3	And silence means that we accept this cruelty and this chaos and this craziness.
1:47.0	So I'm going to speak up. I'm going to let our neighbors know. I'm going to let the world know,
1:51.3	this administration know that we're not going anywhere. We're not turning our head. We will make
1:56.4	noise. We will resist. We will prioritize kindness and empathy and love and helping one another over losing our collective soul.
2:04.6	And I think one of the privileges we have as an athlete is we have a platform. So we'll start to amplify the resistance to what is happening on this platform and others.
2:18.3	And a reminder to all of us that courage is contagious.
2:23.3	Yeah.
2:24.3	I mean, I think that that's, you know, I'm so grateful to some of the athletes who are starting
2:32.3	to speak up because I also know how scary this feels
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