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Hello, lovelies! This week Brian welcomes Emily Fear, co-host of the Pro Wrestling Torch's Grit & Glitter podcast, into the ring to discuss a topic near and dear to her heart: women's pro wrestling. We run through recent events in women's pro wrestling, including two new AEW signings and the Kelly Klein/Ring of Honor fiasco. Ring of Honor's other 2019 woes and Emily's own entry into the pro wrestling fandom are also on the table, as well as the quickly becoming common weekly thirst alert! Check out Grit & Glitter every Tuesday on the PWTorch Dailycast podcast channel and follow Emily Fear on Twitter: @ForkedPgh Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po

Brad Thorson was a local hero in his hometown after committing to play football at the University of Wisconsin. Two years later, he was kicked off the team. Thorson talks about what led to his dismissal, how he found a second life at the University of Kansas, getting invited to camp with the Arizona Cardinals, how the end of his football career led to him finally facing his sexuality and how he's become a pioneer in the world of STD testing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chelsea Wolfe is aiming to be the first publicly out trans athlete to compete in an Olympic Games. Emerging as one of the world's most dominant women in BMX freestyle, she has a shot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dawn Ennis and Karleigh Webb chat with trans roller derby athlete and biologist Juniper Simonis about her transition, her experience as a roller derby competitor, the false descriptor "biological male" and invisible disabilities. Plus news of the week and we are counting down until Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker is in theaters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To quote Gross Pointe Blank: "TEN YEARS!!!" In this episode, Ken Schultz is joined by comedian Chris Calogero (@RealChrisCal on Twitter) to discuss the unbearable Yankees World Series drought of TEN YEARS, MAN! TEN...TEN YEARS! TEN! TEEEEEEN...YEEEEEARS! Chris is quite possibly the most pleasant Yankee fan you'll ever meet and you'll love listening to him talk baseball. Other topics covered include: a super bullpen vs. a killer rotation, the late stage capitalist nightmare that is new Yankee Stadium (great garlic fries, tho!), and the NY media's obsession with turning Giancarlo Stanton into a villain. Twitter: @kenschultz_, @RealChrisCal Insta: @kenthinguy, @realchriscal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello lovelies. This week's edition of LGBT In The Ring features the return of Brian's partner KC! We chat about attending DOA Naughty or Nice, featuring the Portland debuts of notable LGBTQ pro wrestlers Effy and MV Young! Everything from the show is on the table, with a healthy side of ki about Kiera Hogan and Diamante's recent work in WOW and Ladies Night Out. Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To mark World AIDS Day, we examine how HIV affected sports in the early '90s, and talk to HIV prevention expert Erin Butler about why we seldom hear about HIV and sports today and how difficult it is to transmit the virus on the field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to another episode of Level Playing Field here on the Outsports Podcast Network on SB Nation. This week I enter the world of MMA, a world I know nothing about, and get educated and have some fun talking with Senior Editor of MMAJunkie Dave Doyle. In late October I was down in LA for the week and Dave was one of the guests I interviewed in person at my rental. We sat back, drank a few beers and spoke about how he got involved in MMA, growing up in Catholic private school and coming out. We also talk about him getting involved in the Aids Life Cycle (ALC), an annual ride between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Hear me say some incredibly stupid things while Dave educates me all while talking about a couple of fights in October. Want to know more about the ride, you can click this link: https://www.aidslifecycle.org/ You can follow Dave on twitter @davedoylemma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

British Olympic Race Walker Tom Bosworth shares his story with co-founder Cyd Zeigler, from his engagement to his recovery from deep depression and suicide attempt. Bosworth joins Cyd from Australia where he is training for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Travel back in time with Dawn Ennis and Karleigh Webb as they review the highlights from the past six episodes, plus a look at the news impacting the transgender community this holiday weekend, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's this?! A Cub fan and a White Sox fan talking for 50 minutes with nary a single mention that the other team sucks? Yes, nary! Dogs and cats living together, etc... In this episode, Ken Schultz is joined by comedian and White Sox fan Fritz Nothnagel (@fncomedy) imagine a time when Comiskey and Wrigley Field live together in perfect harmony. Ken and Fritz talk about Chicago's endlessly weird city baseball rivalry, compliment the Sox for (*gasp!*) signing a free agent before Spring Training, and thank the baseball gods for Hawk Harrelson's retirement. Never has the word "Mercy!" been so apropos. Twitter: @kenschultz_, @fncomedy Insta: @kenthinguy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's an Outsports Radio Network tag team effort this week as the Same Team podcast's Daniel Trainor joins Brian to run through NXT Takeover: Wargames and WWE Survivor Series. The wrestle boys discuss where NXT goes after winning the battle for "brand supremacy," why Daniel is fed up with The FIend, Adam Cole's in-ring brilliance and the rise of "Twitter Seth." Check out Daniel on the Same Team podcast every other Wednesday on the Outsports Radio Network and follow him on Twitter: @dantrainor1 Follow Brian on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kate Scott, on-air personality and play-by-play analyst for the Pac 12 Network, talks about her rise in the world of sports journalism, the challenges she's faced as an openly gay woman in the field, the lack of LGBTQ representation amongst her peers and why she relishes the chance to be a beacon of hope for the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A special Thanksgiving Week podcast from Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler, in which he talks with Olympian and out soccer phenom Robbie Rogers about his family, his experience at the Beijing Games, how he felt playing in the closet and his historic place in LGBT sports history, the Olympians who inspire him, as well as his favorite character from "Lord of the Rings." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dawn Ennis and Karleigh Chardonnay Webb talk with award-winning TransGriot blogger and longtime transgender advocate Monica Roberts of Houston, Texas. We discuss TDoR, the custody court battle involving a trans girl in Dallas, the political potential that Texas could turn blue, the Rasmussen poll on trans athlete inclusion, racism with NCTE, the AFC South first-place Houston Texans and Battlestar Galactica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In podcast #5, Ken Schultz is joined by fellow Cub fan Sara Sanchez (Baseball Prospectus, Bleed Cubbie Blue, Cuppa Cubbie Blue podcast). You might have noticed that this episode runs well over an hour. That's because Ken and Sara decided to discuss the many ways in which Willson Contreras rules and...well...that's what happens. And really, if we wanted to talk about every single aspect of Willson's awesomeness, this episode would end with the credit: "Directed by Peter Jackson." Other topics discussed: Yu Darvish/Christian Yelich twitter beef, Rob Manfred's hatred of minor league baseball, the horrific Gabe Kapler managerial hire, and the joy of keeping score. You can read Sara's excellent report on the Kapler story here: https://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2019/11/13/20962562/gabe-kapler-questions-giants-new-manager Twitter: @kenschultz_, @BCB_Sara, @CuppaCubbieBlue Insta: @kenthinguy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"The New Classic" Billy Dixon (A Matter Of Pride, PTPW) joins the show this for a ki all about his experiences as a gay black wrestler . From his early days of feeling othered to his memorable and meaningful feud with Effy, Dixon has always been strong and vocal in his beliefs of what wrestling could, and should, be. From Bronx bodega brawls to intersectional critique, Dixon pulls no punches and leaves no tea unspilled! Follow Billy Dixon on Twitter: @TheBillyDixon Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Near the 30th anniversary of "Paris Is Burning," we speak with Shemar Garcon, father of the House of Garcon's gulf coast region, about how he became a house father, how he recruits new competitors, why it separates cis and trans athletes, and how it's entering the athletic mainstream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we talk about this episode I wanted to let you know about the episode I first heard about Haley. During Pride Month in June, she appeared on Same Team with Daniel Trainor and she went over her entire story. Check it out, it is definitely something worth listening too. Link is here: https://soundcloud.com/sameteampodcast/haley-videckis Now onto this episode. We split our one hour conversation talking a little bit about her college career, coming out and the lawsuit against Pepperdine University. The other half of the episode is talking about women's sports in general and the lack of coverage now but the hope for the future. Haley attended the ESPNW Sports Summit in October and we talk about what she saw while attending. Want to follow Haley, check her out on twitter at @HaleyVideckis Follow her on Instagram as well, see her two pups at https://www.instagram.com/HaleyVideckis/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For Trans Week, Karleigh Webb and Dawn Ennis talk with Caitlyn Jenner Foundation researcher Dr. Bethany Grace Howe of the University of Oregon about her study, the Oregon Ducks, and Jenner. They also discuss South Park, the Team Trans hockey match, Twitter trolls and trans athlete Chris Mosier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices