Politics are starting to weaponize sports (7/8)
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
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🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There you go. There you go. |
| 0:08.7 | Dangerous. |
| 0:10.9 | The nothing personal word of the day is dangerous, |
| 0:14.6 | as in a dangerous precedent. |
| 0:18.8 | As in a conversation that we are about to have, about precedent, about opinion, about freedom |
| 0:27.7 | of expression, freedom of speech, and what it is to run a team, own a team, have an opinion, |
| 0:37.6 | state an opinion, and then get punished because of an opinion. |
| 0:46.6 | What's been happening in the last several months since the murder of George Floyd is there |
| 0:52.8 | has been renewed debate, there's been renewed conversation. The first day we did a show, |
| 0:58.8 | it's got to be, I don't know, coca's it four weeks ago, six weeks ago, two weeks ago, |
| 1:04.2 | we did a Monday show where we spend 45 minutes talking about race and talking about platforms |
| 1:09.8 | and using the platform to have discussions. There have been tremendous discussions. |
| 1:16.6 | When you have discussions on an issue, by definition, there will be people you do not |
| 1:20.5 | agree with. There will be people who say things that hurt your ears so badly that you |
| 1:25.7 | don't ever want to hear them talk again. There will be people who have views and thoughts |
| 1:32.2 | that are so different than yours that you can't possibly understand how they could think |
| 1:39.0 | the way they think or say the things they say. But the whole genesis of our country is |
| 1:45.2 | that freedom of speech. And it's a line that sometimes is very difficult to walk. |
| 1:51.9 | Why do I have dangerous is that nothing personal word of the day because the WNBA, the Women's |
| 1:59.6 | National Basketball Association, has found itself in a bit of a pickle. And the pickle |
| 2:06.1 | revolves a Republican senator named Kelly Laughler. Kelly Laughler is from Georgia. She was |
| 2:13.2 | appointed in a special election midterm in Georgia. She is running again this coming November. |
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