And I got a football scholarship that basically changed the course of my life.

Took me out of that one-bedroom apartment in the hood, put me on a college campus, and started

my career as a journalist.

So here we are.

It's the Sunday special.

My special guest today is Jason Whitlock. He is the host of Fox Sports Ones Speak for Yourself. And we have a lot to get to today. Obviously, sports has been in the news in a major way. And Jason's a really unique thinker. We're going to talk to him for the full hour, as Larry King would put it. But first, I want to say thanks to our sponsors over at ZipRecruiter. So hiring hiring is challenging, but there is one place you can go where hiring is simple and fast and smart. It's a place where growing businesses connect to qualified candidates. That place is ZipRecruiter.com and use the slash Ben Guess because they get a special deal. ZipRecruiter sends your job to over 100 of the web's leading job boards, but they don't stop there. with their powerful matching technology, ZipRecruiter scans thousands of resumes to find people with the right experience and invite them to apply to your job. And as the applications come in, ZipRecruiter analyzes each one. They spotlight the top candidates so that you never miss a great match. ZipRecruiter is so effective, 80% of employers who post on ZipRecruiter, get a quality candidate through the site within the first day, which should be of little comfort to the people in this room.

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ZipRecruiter.com slash Ben Guest to let them know we sent you and to try it out for free. All righty. So Jason Whitlock, thanks so much for coming in. I really appreciate it. Honor to be here. Really appreciate it. It's pleasure to see you. So Jason, for folks who don't know and who are listening, Jason, I'm just going to get this right out, you're black. So if you're listening, and you couldn't tell, Jason is a black man.

And that means that because he does not subscribe to the sort of leftist party platform on a bunch of issues that we're going to be talking about, Jason is the preeminent sports journalism, Uncle Tom? Is that the language they typically use about you? That would be accurate over Twitter and social media. I don't know if my mom and family would agree with that.

So let's get into, let's start there. Let's start with, you know, what your upbringing is,

and then we'll get into politics and sports, because obviously that intersection is becoming

incredibly, incredibly popular and powerful right now. So where do you come from? What's your background?

I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana. My parents, my dad was a high school dropout,

joined the Army, came back and became an entrepreneur in the inner city. My mom,

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