David Remnick
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3,405 appearances
69 recordings
12 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
David Remnick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 69 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 21.
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Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
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I'm David Remnick.
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You know, controversies in the world of sports have been making headlines all year.
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For months now, the WNBA has been drawn into the debate about trans athletes in sports, even though there isn't a single trans player currently in the league.
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And the NBA is still reeling from a salary cap scandal, broken by the reporter Pablo Torre, that's led to the billionaire Los Angeles Clipper owner Steve Ballmer being suspended from the sport for an entire year.
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But a decade ago, the biggest controversy in sports, and one that we're still thinking about, surrounded just one athlete, Colin Kaepernick.
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Kaepernick had a stunning rise as an NFL star.
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In twenty twelve, he won the starting quarterback job for the San Francisco 49ers and then led the team all the way to the Super Bowl, a game that they narrowly lost.
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On the field, Kaepernick was a dynamic dual threat.
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He could beat you with his arm, could throw long.
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Or he could beat you running down the field.
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To this day, Kaepernick still holds the record for rushing yards by an NFL quarterback in a single playoff game.
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But his considerable skills as a player were quickly overshadowed by his decision to engage in protest for racial justice.
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You'll remember well, he would kneel
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During the national anthem before games, and that gesture, that protest generated
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An enormous amount of backlash with everyone from his fellow players to future presidents weighing in.
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Following that story at all?
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And Kaepernick paid a price, a really steep price.
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Even as a star quarterback, after leaving the Forty Niners, no other team in the league, not one, would sign him.
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In his new memoir, The Perilous Fight, Colin Kaepernick writes that this wasn't even the full extent of the league's efforts to punish him.
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