We're here freedom-fest. Why are you here? Why this festival? Why not like a Republican convention or a Democrat convention? What is it about this place?

That's a great question. Honestly, I'm not trying to preach a message of politics. I'm not trying to preach a vote right, vote left. I'm trying to show people like, hey, it doesn't matter if you're right or left.

There's a bigger message to be spread. I'm more into fighting for freedom of speech, human rights, and I don't think human rights should be political. Unfortunately, it is. But that's a narrative I'm trying to change.

How does someone in sports broadcasting start caring about human rights? Like, how do those things even cross?

Yeah, you know, I wish more people did in sports. And I think everyone cares, but what I've found is sports allowed me to grow a huge platform. And I don't take that for granted.

And, you know, as I hear more and more people's stories, I hear they never had that freedom of speech that I have here in the United States.

So let me use my platform. It sounds a little cliche, but let me use the followers I have and the audience I have and the reach that I have to do something better with it.

So if I hear of human rights violations going on, whether that's combating antisemitism or building bridges between the Jewish community and the Black community and the Christian community, I do whatever I can.

Try to show people look more than a more than a broadcaster and you're more than I don't care what industry you're in. Like, we're all people.

What does your audience think when you start pushing into human rights conversations when they're there to just check out sports?

Yeah, so I definitely keep a very healthy balance. There's a funny story when people ask me I share I did a period of time at the United Nations working there.

And I don't want to bore my audience. I'm very well aware you guys follow me. You like my sports content. So I have a screen recorded somewhere.

One moment, I am walking out on Chomeney in the human rights council. I staged a walk out with the ambassador during his speech. And then 30 minutes later, I wrote on my Instagram story. Hey, guys, do you think the next for the Miami Heat one, the NBA off season that my next one is, you know, give woman their rights to get educated.

And then the next one was, okay, guys, so tonight I'm going to ESPN's red carpet. And here's what I'll be doing. You know, I think that's a really good way to send my message because you follow me for the sports.

But hey, here's also a really important issue going on without boring you and making your eyes sore with it. So I keep a very healthy balance.

My feeling in a lot of what we've gone through, I even think COVID watching your job just taken away and government starting to really manhandle what you can do.

Do you feel like audiences are waking up to saying, I want to get deeper and think about things in the world.

I hope so. I'm a little concerned with Gen Z part of Gen Z, but I think I have an older soul.

I'm concerned that people's lack of care. You know, I really try to tell people you should care. You know, life is more than sports, life is more than life is more than what's fun.

You know, there are serious issues going on and ultimately you can't force someone to care. You need to speak to their heart.

And I hope that that's what I'm doing because you really just can't force people to care.

Gen Z, hopeful or do you think part of it's an apathy driven by I'm never going to own a house. The system doesn't work.

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