Ex-ESPN Host Tells the Inside Story of How Sports Went Woke | Sage Steele

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.5 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Sage Steele about her journey from ESPN to independent broadcasting; how she was punished and canceled for speaking out against vaccine mandates; how she rose through the ranks of ESPN; how the network's culture went "woke" at a rapid speed following Trump's election; how her conservative upbringing and personal experiences shaped her political evolution; the importance of speaking your mind despite backlash; her observations on ESPN’s shift toward political activism; her former colleagues, like Jemele Hill, making public remarks against Trump and the fallout; the hypocrisy within social justice movements; the profit motive behind racial division and divisive narratives; the impact of transgender athletes in women's sports, revealing fears and challenges faced in addressing the issue; the hypocrisy of coaches like Dawn Staley who pretend to support trans women in women’s sports while their behavior on the court shows they believe differently; her eye-opening experiences in corporate media; the disillusionment she faced with corporate control; concerns about the integrity of the electoral process and the erosion of traditional values; and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	You see what I did there?
0:50.3	Come up.
0:50.9	Happy to meet you.
0:52.1	And now look how you start.
0:54.0	Here's the problem.
0:55.0	Yes. Making Kelly and I, as far as I know, don't look anything like.
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1:00.0	The lights are very bright on my...
1:01.0	So you failed on your attempt to get me. That's really good.
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1:14.4	That's what's going on there. Sage, I am so excited. We've already, I feel like we already did a show in five minutes just sitting here, but I'm so excited that you're here because for a million reasons like basically I wanted to be on ESPM that was what my dream was way back then I wanted to be at ESPN
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