Former ESPN Sports Center anchor Sage Steel was famously sidelined after speaking out against vaccine mandates,

and she then sued ESPN and its parent company Disney for violating her free speech rights.

Having reached a settlement, Steele has now parted ways with ESPN and has launched a new show,

which she says will be dedicated to doing what she was not

allowed to do under her former employer, have open discussions about diverse ideas, including

from a conservative perspective.

In this episode, we sit down with Steele to discuss her legal battle over censorship

with E.S. P. and Disney, and why she sees hope on the horizon for free speech.

I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's

Sunday March 31st and this is an extra edition of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss her journey from ESPN Sports Center anchor to

cancelled and now to host of her own show is sage Steele.

Sage, thank you so much for joining us.

No, thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Now you've launched the Sage Steel show, which we'd like to ask you about, but let's start

with you parting ways with Disney and ESPN. For those who haven't tracked that sequence of events, can you tell us exactly what happened there?

Oh, that's a big long answer. It was almost a two-year process to be honest with you from the moment that I just was on a

podcast on a day off giving my own opinions and views on my own experiences and things that were happening at that time.

This is September, October of 2021.

And I was suspended for it and punished and assignments taken away and silenced and, you know,

was told that if I didn't apologize publicly I would

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