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This is the Dominique Foxworth show.

All right, welcome to the Dominique Foxworth show, a very special episode.

We are joined by an in-person guest,

one of my favorite people to read and listen to,

Derek Thompson of the Plain English podcast,

staff writer at the Atlantic,

writer of two books with another on the way,

I do believe, right?

That is right.

He also talks about the most and writes about the most important significant things in our society all the time

thinks about him one of the best thinkers I know but that's not what we're doing here today

we're here today we're here here today we're here to talk about sports. Oh good stuff stuff that doesn't

matter but welcome and we appreciate you joining. I'm so happy to be here thank you

for that beautiful introduction. Oh yeah it's all true as we just talked about I wouldn't lie to you I like to keep it real with people that's how they know that I really care about them.

All right so before we get into I sent you an email with a ton of really interesting to me big picture topics. We'll get to those but first we got

to establish your sports bona fide. All right let's do it. Favorite athlete of all time?

Well look I got into baseball in the mid-1990s and my

favorite team because my uncle lived in New York was the New York Yankees and there

was this rookie who shared my first name,

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