you don't want it you don't need it but you're going to get it anyway the kevin sheean

show here's kevin a podcast sprint today i'm talking 25 minutes or less, I think. I know I say that a lot,

and we're usually still talking an hour and a half later. But today, I promise it's going to be

very short and sweet. It begins with a happy Mother's Day to my mom who listens to the podcast

occasionally, my wife who never

listens to the podcast, and all the moms who might be listening to the podcast.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you.

Three topics.

Topic number one.

Did you know that it's been nearly five years to the day since the poll, the poll, the Washington Post poll.

Remember the poll that revealed the results of over 500 Native Americans asked several

questions about the team's name? Over 500 Native Americans, by the way, representing every

state and the District of Columbia

and a significant broad range of categories, demographic and otherwise, different ages, income levels,

education levels, different reservations, proximity to different reservations,

political party affiliation, the poll that asked several

questions related to the name, the most significant being, does the team's name offend you,

yes or no? The results were surprising, I think, to a lot of people. 90%, 9 out of 10 Native Americans said five years ago that the team's name

did not offend them, that it wasn't offensive. This was the first sentence from that May 2016 story

in the post. Quote, nine and 10 Native Americans say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name.

That's according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been

persuaded by a national movement to change the football team's moniker, closed quote.

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