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Chapter 1: Why is Dan Le Batard's show unique?
Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?
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Chapter 2: What is the controversy surrounding the Jackie Robinson story?
So there was a story that I was actually pretty fired up about yesterday. It was like the topic du jour, and we didn't actually get around to it. I was stunned. I can't believe it. It's the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz, and Dan didn't want to talk about the Jackie Robinson story. It was on a T-form. This one's easy, folks. If you asked AI...
Over the last 15 years to take everything Dan has passionately spoken about on these airwaves and create a story that was born for him to speak about. Did he just not get to it? I have no idea.
What was the hallmark of a good show? Homework of a good show. I have good things that I needed to get to and he didn't get to. A Jackie Robinson race and sports story. A politics story. Well, Blaney was great.
Was good.
I really enjoyed that interview. While this is an easy topic for Dana and the rare winning position where the intersection of sports and politics meet... Ryan Blaney was great. He was terrific.
Yeah, I don't even care about NASCAR. I thought he was interesting.
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Chapter 3: Why is the Jackie Robinson story significant in sports and politics?
He was, but Jeremy, for the uninitiated, bring him up to speed on this Jackie Robinson story. And there are also friends of the show that got entangled in this, and I'd like to chew on that a little bit as well.
There are so many moving pieces to this over the last 48 hours, but essentially there was a story on a government website where... Jackie Robinson was celebrated for his military service, similar to a whole bunch of other military heroes that were celebrated here. And that story was removed from the government website. And when you went to go click on the link.
To get to that story celebrating Jackie Robinson, the link had been changed to include the words DEI or rather the term DEI ahead of sports in the link. So initially there was a backslash and then sports dash all these different things for Jackie Robinson. The link was actively changed and led you to a page not found. Jeff Passan was the one who first put this out there. He was very mad.
He was rightfully furious about this. Jackie Robinson's history being removed from a government website as a result of stomping out diversity, equity, and inclusion seems like one of the worst things that we could do in the storytelling of our nation's history. And what was really wild is that the statements that
Passon received, and I can pull those up in just a second, basically doubled down on what it was that had happened. Not, you know, acknowledging maybe there was a mistake, maybe there was this. Several hours later, of course, the article was restored because that's what happens. These people try to do everything. And if you don't catch them, they'll just keep doing it.
So it's up to journalists like Jeff Passon to catch people in the act and force their hand. And so now the article is back, but only after These statements said things like, we don't see color, essentially, when it comes to Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier.
But why was it considered DEI, Jackie Robinson?
Because he's black.
But it's not a hire, he was drafted.
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Chapter 4: How does the podcast address the intersection of sports and politics?
and they correct the content accordingly, but there was a follow-up statement just a couple of hours later, because that one was obviously dumb. Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the Navajo Code Talkers.
Some of my best friends are Jackie Robinson. I went to a Jackie Robinson wedding once.
The Marines at Iwo Jima and so many others. We salute them for their strong and in many cases heroic service to our country. Full stop. We do not view or highlight them through the prism of immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity or sex. We do so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the war fighting mission. Like every other American who has worn the uniform.
DEI, discriminatory equity ideology, does the opposite. It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion, and interferes with the service's core warfighting mission. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I'd be curious if there was a Ted Williams story that remained up.
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. I guess I understand what they're trying to say there, but I think it's interesting hearing about famous people who served in wars.
It's like a huge part of their marketing campaign is... We used to have to draft people. I know that there were wars going around, but historically, not easy to recruit there.
Arguing that race, the Jackie Robinson story shouldn't be viewed through the prism of race is so insulting to not only Jackie Robinson and his memory, but all of the people who came before him and after him, not only in the military, but in baseball, like in sports. This is truly, truly, utterly offensive.
It's almost like they forget why he got court-martialed in the first place. He was on an Army bus. As a commissioned officer, by the way, a second lieutenant, he was told to go to the back of the bus. Right. And he got court-martialed for not doing that.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of John Cena's heel turn?
I mean, if it was an actor or a musician, you know, black actor, black musician, who they removed from those pages, like, Mina Kimes wasn't going to be using her FaceTime on Around the Horn for it. It's because it's Jackie Robinson, and Jackie Robinson is sports. Like I said, in any place where Jackie Robinson is mentioned, that's sports.
I saw someone tweet that the fact that at this present time, Mina could go on the air and basically say like, hey, Jackie Robinson's historical significance tied to his race and that that would make her a punching bag for for the right wing media just shows where we've gone generally in this country.
Like it's it's pretty amazing that just saying that out loud could turn you into some sort of symbol of, quote unquote, cultural woke Marxism.
And also, there are people that are still defending its removal because they've just decided to commit to the party line when the party itself has come out and said, my bad. My bad. We got that one wrong. It might have even been a mistake.
It's kind of surprising that they did that, though, no?
No, it's not. This is what they do, man. There have been lives. I was at a town hall last week, and there was a marine biologist for NOAA that got fired, and her supervisor didn't know about it. She got a crude letter.
and it wasn't even signed did not know who fired her winter the superior this is a worker that had hit all our marks even got even attained a bonus because she was so superlative at her job her supervisor didn't know about this i believe there was another uh scientist that worked on hurricanes that had actually gotten fired in a similar fashion then rehired and then a day later fired again all of this is messy it's like they're literally typing in they're taking inventory
of what could be lumped into DEI. And that is about as crude as it can get. Jackie Robinson, black guy, DEI. And they're just typing that in and eliminating things. And they're doing this with people's lives and jobs. And they're just typing in these things into a big machine and just crudely cutting things out.
And people like Jeff Passan and all these other journalists need to keep catching these things, especially things like that. That's a good day for journalism yesterday.
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Chapter 6: How does the WWE use audience dynamics in storytelling?
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