David Pollack: On life after ESPN and having the freedom to truly express himself

The Will Cain Show

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Will sits down with the author of 'The Won't Quit Kid' and former ESPN College Gameday analyst, David Pollack, who is now free to be himself politically and religiously after being fired from ESPN and open to express his opinions on issues such as transgender athletes in women's sports. Pollack also discusses his favorite college campuses he visited while traveling for ESPN College Gameday, what locked him into Athens for his Bulldogs' career, and why you shouldn't prioritize sports before God. Will and David also go head-to-head in the latest round of 'Will Vs. The Experts.' Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [email protected] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.9	David Pollock, the author of The Won't Quit Kid and my former colleague at ESPN, we haven't
0:42.1	seen each other since our ESPN days. So I'm a little bit fascinated by this part of our conversation.
0:46.8	I saw, it was actually written up at Fox News.com, a conversation you had with another former colleague
0:52.6	of ours, Jason Whitlock. I think Jason and I overlapped at ESPN, although I never saw him at ESPN.
0:57.9	You and I saw each other.
0:58.9	You'd come on the Will Kane show.
1:00.3	I'd see you around the building in Bristol.
1:02.9	And you said some interesting things to Jason Whitlock.
1:05.3	You talked about your time at ESPN and that you felt like you couldn't speak freely.
1:12.7	You said some pretty fascinating things, I think, as well, about how you, you were
1:16.2	kind of mad at yourself.
1:17.5	You felt a little bit of shame that you didn't think you had the courage that you should
1:21.1	have had at your time to speak your mind while at ESPN.
1:24.9	Yeah.
1:26.5	I think it's definitely, everybody works for companies and different companies that have
1:31.3	maybe different beliefs than you. And, you know, listen, I think that everybody has to adhere to some
1:36.7	form of, you know, there's a social media and you, your, your opinions belong with our opinions. And
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