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Chelsea and Riley, both media communications majors, discuss their academic plans and interests. They then talk about women in sports, specifically basketball players Caitlin Clark and Angela Reese. They mention the high viewership of their college game and how the media portrayed them as enemies. They also discuss a documentary about the Pulaski County Jail in Little Rock, Arkansas, which explores giving inmates more freedom. Lastly, they provide a weather forecast for the week. Hi guys, and welcome back to Sound Waves of Society. Okay, so my name is Chelsea. I am a freshman. Woo! And I'm a media communications major, of course, and technically not declared yet. I declined to minor in business, which will be so much fun. I have talked to a couple people about taking economics. Is that economics? Microeconomics? Scary. Yeah, I'm so scared for that class. Anyways, and I plan to take the production journalism writing style route for media communications. Hi, my name is Riley Van, and my major is media communications. My concentration is media and cultural analysis. I wanted to go more of an aspect of trying to understand people, the cognitive route and the sociological route. I have a minor as diversity studies. I am a sophomore here at UFIS, but I'm going to be a junior next year. Woo! Okay, so on this week's episode, we're going to go over sports, specifically women in sports. And then a little breaking news on some local news here in Arkansas, specifically Pulaski County. Nice. We're also going to have a commercial break that is going to be talking about all the resources available from the library. Make sure you get in there before finals week is over. Then we're also going to be talking about the weather. I know, slightly boring, but it's very dire and necessary. It's going to be for the week of April 15th through the 19th. And then we're also going to be speaking about the solar eclipse that's going to happen on Monday. Let's get on into the episode. Welcome back to sports with your host, a person who knows nothing about sports, but she's going to try her best. So for this week, I really wanted to do an emphasis on women's sports. Just because I feel like overall this past year, as a society, or not a society, but like a whole, we have put more interest, I guess, I'd say, with women in sports. Like, yeah. Anyways. So specifically, I wanted to talk about the WNBH wrap that just happened recently. And if you don't know anything about anything, you might have heard two names be thrown around. Caitlin Clark and Angela Reese. You might be wondering, why is this important? Well, these are two young women who are making waves in basketball history. So we'll start off with Angela Reese first. She was the seventh pick overall from LSU, originally from Maryland. She was drafted to go play in the Chicago Skies. She has won many awards for playing basketball. She has a career total from just her college years of 116 points. Yeah. And then we're going to move over to Caitlin Clark. She has been someone to watch since her freshman year as a starting, like, even as a freshman. Guys, I need you guys to understand this. She was starting, like, the starting line of the D1 school. That's insane. Because normally you're probably not going to do that until, like, your junior year, if you're even still on the team. I'm not shitting anyone. I'm just, from what I've heard. Anyways, she's from the University of Iowa, an offensive player. She's also broken many records, won many achievements, with a career total point of 3,951. Some might argue, and I might actually back them up in this argument, that she might be one of the greatest basketball players of all time, or of our generation. And I 100% back them up in this claim. Now, why are these two college girls important to women in sports? Not only have they already been making big headway as college students, now that they're in the WNBA, they're just names and people to look out for while they're playing. Even now, once these two girls were playing against each other during the final eight of March Madness, that became one of the most highly watched women's basketball games in history, with 12.3 million viewers. This game, tell you what, guys, this game was hectic. They did have to play them twice, both LSU and Iowa, because the first game ended with a fight on court. Now, this doesn't really celebrate women ending with a fight, I guess, I don't know. But it does kind of go into how the media will portray these two women as enemies against each other, and that's what happened. And you know what, they cleared up the air, they're like, hey guys, we put our game face on once we're in the court, but once we get out, we are good, we're buds, there's no drama, there's no point in adding to that. Which I think, personally, it's the best way you could say that, being a woman, not having to add drama to that, I suppose. But yeah, so as this season continues, or it's about to open up for the WNBA, I would say keep a lookout for those two players in the headways, or headways, yeah, that they'll be making in sports. Okay, so moving away from sports, I wanted to bring you back closer to home, to Little Rock, Arkansas, with the Pulaski County Jail. So Netflix recently came out with a documentary on the Pulaski County Jail in Little Rock, Arkansas. If you don't know anything about Little Rock, Arkansas, you probably do, you just don't know it. It's this really high crime, it's just like very unsafe to be around. So with this experiment, it was run by the Sheriff Eric Kagan, and he specifically ran this in the H unit of the jail. So how the jail is run is, it's a 23-1. So they spent 23 hours locked up, and one hour out. And so for me, when I was watching this, I like, as a former, or yeah, no, yeah, as a former daycare teacher, once kids are like locked, not locked up, but like picked up all day, they're like, they have a bunch of energy. So once they got to us, they were all rowdy and like crazy, which understandably so. So are these grown men. Just being locked up for 23 hours with one person in your jail cell makes a person go crazy. So of course, that one hour was hectic, like it's when most of, well, duh, it's the only chance they got to fight or break out in the jail. And so a lot of arguments and petty stuff would go on, because they're literally pinned up for 23 hours. So Eric Kagan's idea, so Kagan's plan is to give the inmates a bit more, which sounds kind of crazy to me. When I was first hearing it, I was like, no, these are people who are incarcerated, they're in there for a reason. People on the documentary were like, officers were quoting like, this is the worst of the worst, like rapists, robbers, like, you know, I don't know why. Cannibalism. Cannibalism, yeah. Like mass murderers, just people that don't, there really is a thing, like you can get medically, you can get medically examined to be a psycho, to be an actual psychopath. And they were in that jail. So, yeah, so I don't know, for me that was like, kind of crazy, that he wanted to give them more freedom. But the idea was that they were going to unlock the doors, like all day. They were able to roam around inside that H unit, inside and out, crazy. What happened to them, what'd they do? They, oh my gosh. So, once they were able to remove all of the officers, they still had to do their job. They were making sure, like, no one was getting pretty much shanked. So, before they were able to like, I guess, get full release, they did a full strip down. Like, searches, everything, anything that can be used as drugs, anything that can be used to like, shank someone, kill someone, taken out. But, I guess they didn't do it well because they still like, were able to get like, they get so creative in there. They were able to make like, alcohol, their own kind of cigarettes, and like, a shank still. Which like, guys, you're officers, you should know what to take and what not to take. That's like, the only part that kind of like, pissed me off a little. Sorry, I didn't mean to fuss, guys. So, anyways, they were like, broken into like, groups with like, the old people and the young people. The old people were kind of like, like, let's use this to our advantage. Like, let's like, move forward, I guess. And the young people were like, no, like, you guys are all like, effed up. Like, we're all in jail for a reason, might as well have fun with it. Like, why are you taking it seriously? Which like, personally, I kind of agree with the young people. But, anyways, I'm not going to spoil all of it because I do recommend for everyone to go watch it. Because it does kind of just like, bring, I guess, humanity back. Or like, it just like, makes you feel sad, not sad. Like, empathy for them. This is what the arguments do, and I feel like, once we think, oh, they're in jail, we tend to dehumanize them. And not see like, hey, these are actual real life people. And I do think this documentary did a really good job on, I guess, yeah, bringing back life to them. So, 10 out of 10, everyone go watch it right now. This episode is sponsored by the UFS Library. During finals week, there's always a bunch of resources available. Like, study rooms, they're open until midnight. You can go and have the library and help you. The Writing Center is always able to look after your papers and draft them and be able to check for grammar mistakes, your punctuation. Big shout out to UAFS Library for sponsoring our podcast, Sound Waves of Society. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. This week on campus, the weather is looking a lot like you should pack yourself an umbrella, just in case. Beginning Monday, April the 15th, the morning fall will be blending in with the afternoon to evenings overcast and cloudy mix. Of course, always wear your sunscreen. The best time to burn is during an overcast day. Speaking of burning, that summer weather is trying to make a breakthrough with a new high of 84 degrees near 2 and 3 p.m. Thankfully, our evening time will have a low of 67 degrees, the daily average temp being low 70. Tuesday is going to be the best or worst day of the week, however you choose to view it. Thunderstorms will be accompanying you and your cup of coffee this morning with scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening time. Since this warm front has begun to come through, we're seeing more rain and cloud mix. The high for Tuesday will be 82 degrees and a low of 63 degrees. Despite two consistent days of rain, Wednesday's forecast seems to be going against all odds to give us the first and only sunny day. The temperature will be nearly the same as the previous. Moving on to Thursday, we're experiencing some partly cloudy overcast and just meh conditions throughout the day, making for a nice, fresh chill. The high is only going to be 76 degrees, which will lead us into the showers for the latter part of the evening. Friday is a step up, though. On top of also being the last day of the work week, we're forecasted to receive some sunshine and cloud mix. I think that's a wonderful way to start off the weekend. But you know what's even better, Chelsea? What? The solar eclipse is this upcoming Monday. We get to experience dawn and dusk twice in a day. What? So crazy! But you know what's also crazier? We've actually already experienced it. So, today, the date is actually May 2nd, and it did happen quite a bit ago. So what did you do for the solar eclipse? I watched it on campus because I had classes that day. I genuinely thought that everyone was going to cancel classes because of the traffic, which is also a big scam. No traffic at all. Literally nothing. I swear, it felt like Rogers Avenue felt the same. Are you kidding me? I didn't travel, did I? I was a little nervous. I did get out of town, gotta be honest. So I watched it on campus, on the campus screen. It was so like, aww, humans are cute kind of moment. We were all just watching it, and I was like, this is the cutest thing ever. Okay, that also restores my faith in humanity. Just like your Pulaski County Jail segment. Hi, bud. So, over the weekend, I had actually gone down to my parents' land. It's around the New Blaine and Dardanelle area. So, we were staying down there, and I think they have a barn-dominium kind of thing. It has the upstairs. And Colin, that's my uncle and my mom, were kicked back with their shades on. We got them from First National Bank, by the way. But they were kicked back, and we just all watched the eclipse. It was so fun to get to see it come up over the mountain, and watch the shadow just move across. You guys got totality. Yeah, totality, completely. And over there, it was like, certain places you can possibly see Mount Nebo or Mount Magazine. That's where our land is, too. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so it was like you can kind of see the shadow. I know. Dang. I know. Honestly, after it, I guess. Not after. Maybe after. It was kind of awkward. It was like, what do we do now? I kind of expected it to last either a little bit longer or for it to be a little bit darker. That's what, yeah. Yeah. That's what I thought. But I did like getting to experience dusk and dawn. That was kind of fun. I heard my cicadas immediately. No, yeah. Yes. The quickest thing, immediately, you hear them screaming. Yes. That's what was happening on campus. I was like, oh my gosh, it's evening, I've got to go to bed now. For real. That's kind of mad. But also, I'm still upset they didn't cancel classes. Oh my gosh, me too. Yeah. Because imagine if traffic was that. Dang. It wouldn't suck. Right? I was hoping so. Not really. Also, all of my classes were right before the eclipse. Not right before, but full disclosure, we are just joking. We promise, Dr. Nikki. And that's all, folks. Thank you guys so much for listening. And don't forget to tune in next week. We'll be talking about the presidential election and if we believe aliens are real or not. Exactly. Do you believe in the faith? Leave a comment down below. We'd love to see you in the summer. Bye-bye now. Bye. Hi, guys, and welcome back to Snap.