Season 4, Episode 17: Slam Dunk-Unity! With Doug Day

0:00:03 – Jess

If you’re new here, welcome! And if you came back, oh, God bless ya! Thank you for coming back. This is the Jesus Fix It Podcast with Jess. We talk about everything: life, its craziness, it’s ups and downs. ‘Cause you know what, Jesus can fix it and He can handle it all. Welcome to Spirit FM Sports Talk with Doug and Jess. Okay, well, no, well, kind of kind of yeah, Doug from the Afternoon Show and my boss I love saying my boss because I get to pretty much say whatever I want right now and get away with it. That’s true. 

Doug is a guest on Jesus Fix It, of course. But I won’t just say whatever I want. Me and Doug are pretty cool. That’s true, that’s right. So, since Doug is here, Doug is like the biggest sports fan in the building. 

0:00:51 – Doug

I am, yeah, I love you, know all things Yankees, NASCAR, some NBA and maybe even now the WNBA. 

0:01:00 – Jess

Wait a minute. You said now yes, why? 

0:01:02 – Doug

now you said now, yes, why now? Well, I don’t know. I mean, I feel like there’s been so ever since. You know Kaitlyn Clark. She, you know, is a WNBA player. She came from Iowa and I feel like ever since she’s gotten into the WNBA. Then you have Angel Reese from LSU. Like the WNBA has like taken off and become kind of a hot topic in the sports world. 

0:01:23 – Jess

Okay, I’m trying not to get offended right now. So before Angel Reese and Caitlyn Clark, you weren’t a WNBA fan. You didn’t watch women’s basketball. I don’t think a lot of people were, you and half the country, okay. So first of all, let me just say there was women’s basketball before Caitlyn and Angel. 

0:01:42 – Doug

Was there? Yes, there was Okay, good to know, good to know before. Caitlin and Angel. Was there? Yes, there was Okay, get to know, get to know. No, I knew there was, I’m just kidding, yeah. 

0:01:48 – Jess

Okay, well, first of all, I am a sports fan too. I love some football. 

0:01:52 – Doug

Okay. 

0:01:53 – Jess

Definitely basketball NASCAR. 

0:01:56 – Doug

Not about NASCAR, no man. 

0:01:58 – Jess

See where I’m from. I could get hurt saying this out loud Like for real. Saying this out loud like for real. My town, like we have racetrack. I could get hurt. So I’m really going out on a limb saying that like admitting this. There’s some of my family members right now who are going to disown me if they listen to this. But yeah, okay. So the Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reese situation is just so crazy how I think half the nation are not just basketball fans right now but WNBA fans. It’s just crazy how all of that took off like within the last year. 

0:02:35 – Doug

Yeah. 

0:02:36 – Jess

Not just because of Angel Reese, because Angel Reese was fire last year. 

0:02:40 – Doug

For sure she really was, but just this year alone. 

0:02:43 – Jess

Kaitlyn Clark. 

0:02:44 – Doug

Yeah, the effect she’s had like what in the world shifted in a way as they’ve come into the WNBA, where they were these rivals in college. But now it’s like more of a thing where not just specifically to Angel Reese but with Caitlin Clark in general people are just saying like she’s being fouled hard, she’s being bullied and all this kind of stuff. And it’s just a really interesting conversation to me because I don’t think it’s something Caitlin’s saying at all, but it’s like people for some reason feel like they need to be like come to her side and support her and like I don’t know. It’s just really interesting to me how that’s played out. 

0:03:30 – Jess

Yeah, I remember the. I think it was maybe the first or second game she played, and was it the game with Angel Reese, maybe I forget, but she got fouled really bad, yeah, and people were in an uproar. 

0:03:46 – Doug

Yeah. 

0:03:47 – Jess

I mean, people were going in and she was like, no, I’m good, this is what the game is Right, I grew up with brothers even. I mean, this is just what it’s all about. And people were just like, how could they do this? And you know, they fouled her too hard and they were even going in on the refs and stuff and she’s like y’all, this is what the sport is. 

And I was even like and one thing about me is I just love to watch sports. I don’t know half the rules, I don’t. I just like to watch the game. And even I was like I think this is what’s supposed to happen. 

0:04:23 – Doug

Yes, and it’s interesting too, because you know there was a lot of conversation around that and you know, I think a lot of what it comes down to is a lot of people were viewing this for the first time, they were seeing the WNBA for the first time, they were experiencing this for the first time and it was something that they just weren’t used to seeing. So when they saw it the first time, they’re like, hey, that doesn’t seem quite right, when I mean, from everything I’ve read and seen, that’s how the game’s been played forever. So I don’t think it’s necessarily there’s been a shift or there’s even any malice against Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese or anything like that. I think it’s just how the game is played. But it is interesting to to kind of look at it in a bigger sense of like yes, this is something that just kind of come on, it’s been a fad, People are really enjoying it and it’s just funny how things can get so polarized so quickly when it really isn’t. 

I mean, we’re talking about an entertainment industry here. We’re talking about sports. We’re talking about something that entertains people and I love sports, like you said, as much as the next person about something that entertains people, and I love sports, like you said, as much as the next person. But it is funny to see how people get so caught up in this and it gets so you know, divisive. You know there’s so much that’s already divisive and now our sports is becoming divisive. 

0:05:36 – Jess

Yeah, yeah, and an already crazy year. I mean, not only we have our politics going on, they’re making it divisive in this too, and I have to bring this up the race card issue too. Right, because you know you have Angel Reese who’s black, and then you have Caitlyn who’s white. 

0:05:57 – Doug

I’m sure half the country knows this by now, but just in case you’re listening to Jesus, fix it and you’re like I don’t know anything about sports. 

0:06:01 – Jess

Letting you know Caitlyn is white, angel is black. About sports, letting you know Caitlin is white, angel is black. And a lot of people have said, okay, they’re extra hard on Angel because she’s black and they’re not that hard on Caitlin. Or some people have felt like, oh, you’re protecting. Caitlin because she’s white. And last year a lot of this stuff happened to Angel and nobody was in an uproar. So like what are your thoughts on that? 

0:06:23 – Doug

Yeah, I think it is. I mean, I think it is just a overall, just a narrative that people are trying to push. I think, for the most part, people out there are not trying to bring people together. So I think, if there’s any way that you can create some type of disunity, it just seems like that’s what people want to do, and I know I would hope that it’s not a case where they’re trying to create this disunity, to create crazy upheaval and you know, stuff getting really dangerous very quickly in the country. I hope it’s just a thing where, if I say this or I say this, I’m going to get more clicks on my Twitter page or my YouTube channel or stuff like that. 

But I think it can. I mean, I think the intent could be hey, I’m just looking to get clicks, I’m just going to say this stuff, but I think in reality, what it does is it does kind of fuel those racial divides and it creates more of a barrier between people than it really does bring people together, which ultimately, when I think about sports, I think sports is about bringing people together. It’s about bringing people who like the same team or like the same sport and there’s, you know, even amongst rivals there’s still respect and there’s still an understanding and I think there’s even respect between Angel and Caitlin I think. I think there is some narrative where they’re rivals and they don’t necessarily like each other, but I think there is the respect there. So it’s just crazy that people even go to the lengths of bringing up political things or racial divides to kind of create this narrative that I don’t necessarily even know if it’s there. 

0:07:50 – Jess

I think these girls just want to play ball, right, I think they just want to play the sport. And you know, for me, I think you know healthy rivalry in sport, that’s what it’s all about. I love being in a house where you like a different team than. 

I do, because I think that’s just the fun of it. I love that and I think when people try to push a different agenda like why, like this is a game, like you said earlier you forget about the entertainment part of it. There is enough in this world trying to pull us apart, trying to divide us, and you want to take this entertainment thing, the one thing that we can bond over, the one thing that we can just enjoy together, and make it this thing that’s supposed to just like divide us. I just don’t understand. 

0:08:40 – Doug

Yeah, it just really doesn’t. It really doesn’t make sense from that sense and especially, you know, as we’re, as we’re here and we’re talking about, you know, trying to unify people and bring people together, and especially for us, trying to bring people together under Christ. It’s such an important thing and it’s, you know, just so difficult to see the things that happen and the things that pull people apart, when you know the intent might not be there to do that, but that’s what it’s creating, and then things just continue to erode and then eventually what happens? I mean we’ve seen it with other sports, where when things get uber political on the sports side of things, then the sports aren’t as popular and people aren’t having that time to come together. 

0:09:18 – Jess

Yeah, I will say, though, that, even though I feel like most of the people just jumped on the bandwagon watching the WNBA and lady basketball because of those two, I am glad that at least people are interested and then so many little girls are looking up to them and wanting to play basketball now. 

0:09:40 – Doug

Yeah. 

0:09:40 – Jess

Like what would you? How would you feel if you have two little girls? How would you feel if, one day, your little girl said OK, dad, I want to play basketball? 

0:09:48 – Doug

Yeah, I mean, I think that’s amazing to think about and it is something, as this has grown, that I’ve kind of thought about as a dad of two little girls, because you know there have been so many things that you know have been limiting to women for really no reason at all, besides just stereotypes and prejudices and stuff like that that we’ve had for so long. 

So I think being able to begin to look at the fact that you know these are opportunities that are being opened up, these are things that are being made available to girls, it’s really amazing to see. And I mean, if I mean we’re going to start getting into some soccer here in a little bit, so I don’t know what that’s going to look like, but you know anytime that you know you can find a good role model and somebody that’s doing something the right way and that person is able to, you know, have an impact on kids or that next generation, that’s when we’re starting to see, you know, society move in the direction it should, because it’s moving you to a place closer, unified, things like that, as opposed to pulling you apart more and more. 

0:10:47 – Jess

Yeah, so you’re going to start coaching soccer. Yes, what type of coach, so is this. 

0:10:51 – Doug

Yeah, so it’s like yeah, I don’t know if it’s girls and boys, it probably is. Yeah, it’s just like the Appomattox County League basically. So it’s four on four, so it’s. You know, it’s not too many kids and I guess they don’t have a goalie, which I don’t know how that works in soccer. I don’t know if I’m the goalie, I don’t know how this is going to work, but we’ll figure it out. But yeah, it’s going to be fun. I mean, it’s definitely going to be interesting, because I’m even going to be like Ray in our. 

0:11:19 – Jess

She’s almost four. 

0:11:19 – Doug

She’s going to be on the team and I’m going to be coaching her, so I don’t know how she’s going to listen on the soccer field, but yeah, I mean, it’s just that opportunity to step into it and just kind of see what it’s like. And you know, those role models of those stars in the WNBA or the women’s soccer stars or whatever that looks like. I think all of those people can begin to kind of create that example for kids. 

0:11:40 – Jess

Yeah, I don’t know. I still think, yeah, it has to start somewhere and I’m still, like I said, all for it, even though I was a little bit bitter that the lady basketball has been here forever. 

0:11:54 – Doug

It’s been here for a long, long time, I know, but however, people are all about it now. 

0:12:00 – Jess

I mean, let me just get out of my feelings, but I’m just saying Okay, so I got to ask you this question. Ask everybody who comes to. Jesus, fix it. You know what I’m going to ask you. 

0:12:09 – Doug

I do yes. 

0:12:10 – Jess

All right, one thing, big or small. If you could ask Jesus right now, today, Jesus, fix it. What would it be? What would you ask him to fix for you? 

0:12:19 – Doug

Yeah, I would say fixing I mean mine is never going to be very serious, so mine’s always going to be something kind of fun. But I would say the one thing. So, as a parent you probably know about this, you’re a parent. So as a parent, whenever you go to a restaurant, they bring the food out. It is so hot and the kids want to dive in. I just wonder if there is a way that Jesus could fix when that food comes out is the perfect temperature and the kids can start eating it. I don’t know if restaurants need to just start, because, like when we’re at home, we always just pop the plate in the fridge, let it cool down for a minute. And I’ve almost wanted to ask people at the restaurant before hey, can you just put this in the fridge for a couple of minutes before you bring it out? Don’t do that, because then it would be cool enough. Because, yeah, hot food with kids is no fun. 

0:13:02 – Jess

You would ask you know what? You would have some type of food question. If you know Doug, you know he is all about food. That’s right. Food, food, food. And you would want Jesus to fix something food wise. Did you see what? 

0:13:14 – Doug

the one mom did with the chicken nuggets. No, so she got chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A or Chicken Tent, whatever they have at Chick-fil-A. She got them them. Kids were in the drive-thru. She was ready to have them, eat them, but they were too hot, so she took them and put them on the air conditioning vents on her car. She took all the nuggets out, put them on the air conditioning vents, let them cool down on the car and then handed them back to the kids and they ate them. 

0:13:34 – Jess

Wouldn’t that like put like little grease stains or something? 

0:13:37 – Doug

Okay, that’s exactly what my wife said too when I told her about this, but I was just like, let’s go ahead and give it a try, why not? I mean, I guess you could just hold the box over it and it would be the same idea. 

0:13:46 – Jess

See, I’m a bad parent because I let my kid burn the roof of his mouth one time. 

0:13:51 – Doug

Then he’s going to wait, he’ll learn. 

0:13:54 – Jess

He’ll learn. 

0:13:57 – Doug

That’s good. 

0:14:01 – Announcer

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