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Very pleased this afternoon to be joined by Beaumani Jones, a award-winning sports journalist.

Welcome.

Hey, man.

Thanks for having me.

I appreciate it.

You bet.

So, Beaumani, we think in the country today, you look around, a lot of division in America.

People are at each other's throats.

Trust has collapsed in nearly every major institution that you can think of.

But sports still has the capacity to unify people.

It does. And what is interesting though about that, and I think you hit on a really big one with trust.

And I've been thinking about that a lot. Like when I was in graduate school and Claire, my graduate university,

the first thing they really touched on when I got there

that I wasn't like truly expecting to think about in terms of economics. It's just kind of the

importance of trust. And like people have to trust institutions in order for them to be able to

function. And then once they believe that they don't, then all bets are off. And I think that

there's a quaintness in a way to sports where, you know,

the bottom line is very easy to understand. Conceptually, you get it. We know what is and is not

fair. But on the other side, you know, these are a billion dollar businesses that are also

plagued by a lot of the rot that we see in a lot of the other places.

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