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But it is great to have you in will have a series of guests today to talk about what we saw this weekend mixed in with some sports commentary and

Joy Tader is joining me this morning joy. How are you? I'm good. Hi. Good morning. Good morning, and I want to start with this

I'll take a few months back with the COVID everybody was an epidemiologist in America, but

Not really yet everybody thought they were that's the America we live in now where everybody gets a strong opinion

Except if you don't agree with it

Back in the 60s and 70s. We had some remarkable athletes and they had big strong political opinions

There were death threats for having those

Muhammad Ali bill Russell then Lual Cinder now Kareem Abdul Jabbar Jim Brown

They were the biggest stars in sports

They weren't backups casual players

Guys that barely made it they were the biggest stars in the 60s and 70s and they put themselves out there

Go look at what they talked about they were overwhelmingly right of course, but they got death threats hate and pushback for having

opinions

But as sports has become more corporate better capitalized with much greater money

Fewer superstar athletes want to put it out there and I will defend them too

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