Senator Cory Booker on NCAA Reform, Speaking on the Senate Floor, the Criminal Justice System, and Fighting for a Better America

Flying Coach With Sean McVay and Peter Schrager

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4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Steve and Pete provide updates on the upcoming NBA and NFL seasons before welcoming Senator Cory Booker to discuss player exploitation in the NCAA, his fight for criminal justice reform, expanding economic opportunity, and environmental reform. Later he talks about what it was like speaking as a Black man on the Senate floor, his experiences in politics, the complicity of America, and how individuals can help build a better nation. Host: Steve Kerr and Pete Carroll Guest: Cory Booker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Flying Coach, welcome back. A little bit of a hiatus, Pete, but we're back after a few weeks.
0:20.0	Good to see you. Yeah, it's good to be back.
0:23.0	We got the July 4th in the middle of all this and so we're back at it.
0:28.0	We're kind of ready to close it out and it's been really an extraordinary opportunity for myself personally to work with you, Steve, and this has been such a blast and really grateful for the opportunity that we were given to do the work we want to do here.
0:42.0	Yeah, I agree.
0:43.0	This has been so much fun and it's been fantastic working with you.
0:47.4	This will be our last one.
0:49.7	You know, we wanted to take a few minutes here before we have our guest, Senator Corey Booker on, who is just brilliant and such an amazing guest.
0:59.7	But just wanted to take a couple of minutes to talk a little bit about the sports world,
1:05.8	what's going on today, where the NFL is, where the NBA is, and then share a little bit
1:10.5	about these last few months months why we've done this
1:14.2	podcast and where we're heading and we'll roll right in with with Corey.
1:18.9	Pete you want to kind of share where you guys are the Seahawks the NFL what's what's the
1:24.8	schedule now going into training camp normally you'd be going into camp what end of
1:29.8	July right yeah it's coming up we're still on schedule with at this time. It has not been committed to by the League and the Players Association yet, but the 21st is when the young guys can show up in the 28th. The veterans will be ready to go to
1:45.5	camp. That's kind of been orchestrated by the CBA all along. But there's still agreements that need
1:50.9	to be settled. So we're unsettled at this time. We don't know
1:54.9	exactly. They've been talking almost on a daily basis to try to come to agreements on all the different issues.
2:00.7	And we're still waiting for confirmation. But in that you know I'm hoping that if we
2:06.8	whatever time it takes to do this right is important there's so much at stake here and of
2:11.3	course we everybody wants a football season I can't even
2:13.6	imagine anything but that happening in timely fashion here but whatever it takes you
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