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Emmy award winner hes also been the prime host of 11 olympics he joins us from california. Bottom askin right into was do you ever remember a time in history when sporran sin politics has been so intertwined no not as pervasively of course muhammad ali was a singular figure of global influence and the 1960 s. As we both remember were of very very contentious period of time yet tommy smith and john carlos with the raise fissile that of the 1968 olympics in mexico city a lot of Young Athletes protested the war in vietnam some were part of the counterculture bill walton d an extremely likable man nonetheless had some countercultural ideas which many agreed with so that was a period of time when it was out there but i dont think numerically there were as many athletes who had a political bent a seem to have today is going to so many instances i know you will for and for a long time i wish to when he made them washington finally dropping the redskins well as i said a week ago theyre not doi
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