Alex McComb BIG & Awkward Alex McComb

Former pro basketball player and current entrepreneur, author, speaker, among many other titles, Dre "Dre All Day" Baldwin joins the show this week. We talk about his basketball career, his life as a young entrepreneur, one of his 27 books "Work On Your Game" (named after his brand), how others can effectively work on their game (not just sports) to achieve goals that were once just pipe dreams and much MUCH more... Music by Oaks & Bans.

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Western University men's hockey players and Black student-athletes Theo Lewis and Cordell James join the podcast during one of the biggest social movements for racial equality in recent history to discuss racism in hockey, a predominantly white sport with a culture of silence. In the discussion, Theo and Cordell share the emotions they've felt since the tragic injustices from the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless other Black people who have been mistreated because of the colour of their skin. The two players speak on their own first-hand experiences with racism in hockey, their reactions to the stories of racial abuse from NHLers like Akim Aliu, why more people need to be standing up for the #BlackLivesMatter movement and what needs to be done next to address racism in sports and society, understand and educate people why it's wrong, and eventually eradicate it for our future generations and much MUCH more... Article for racism in hockey will be published by The Western Gazette in the near future with all topics discussed. For more interviews on student-athletes speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement, check out my article in The Western Gazette. Music by Oaks & Bans.

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Western Mustangs men's football defensive back Alex Salytchev speaks to the #BlackLivesMatter movement and how he's been feeling these past few weeks, his experiences with racism, his reaction to Drew Brees's tone-deaf comments about the flag and Laura Ingraham's hypocritical response, his thoughts on what everyone, including the City of London, should be doing to combat systemic and systematic racism and much MUCH more... For more interviews on the student-athletes speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement, check out my article in The Western Gazette. Music by Oaks & Bans.

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Western women's football team quarterback/team president and neuroscience PhD candidate Olivia Ghosh-Swaby joins the podcast to discuss the #BlackLivesMatter movement, her own experiences with racism, how systemic racism has affected academia, earlier tone-deaf comments from Drew Brees and hypocrisy from Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, the situation surrounding the 2nd-year McMaster University men's lacrosse player who posted racist tweets and much MUCH more... For more interviews on the student-athletes speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement, check out my article in The Western Gazette. Music by Oaks & Bans.

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Western Mustangs women's volleyball alumna and current Registered Dietitian/business owner at Compete Nutrition Aja Gyimah shares her thoughts on what the #BlackLivesMatter movement means to her and why it's so important, what she believes are the next steps for everyone to fight against racial injustices that face the Black community, how Western University and the athletics department can do to help and much MUCH more... For more interviews on the student-athletes speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement, check out my article in The Western Gazette. Music by Oaks & Bans.

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Western Mustangs running back Trey Humes joins as he speaks out against racial injustices and double-standards that the Black community has faced in the U.S., in Canada and around the world. We talk about the effect of social media and #BlackoutTuesday, his recent heated exchange on Twitter with a Western alumnus who threatened to pull his donations from Western after the school made a tweet showing solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement, his thoughts on what the white community needs to do in their own daily lives to help in the fight against systemic and systematic racism and much MUCH more... For more interviews on the student-athletes speaking out for the Black Lives Matter movement, check out my article in The Western Gazette. Music by Oaks & Bans.

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