Luke Thomas

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1,281 appearances 7 recordings 6 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 18 Jun

Luke Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I don't want to say it's a every time thing, but it can.

Certain things you can speak out about will absolutely get you a call from HR or your editor or whoever the relevant authority is.

Yeah, I mean, I would question to what extent he's really challenging power in the way that he speaks, right?

I mean, it's one thing to speak out about political issues, but who are you going after?

You know what I mean?

Are you going after, like, genuinely powerful coalitions that are really affecting American society, or are you...

you know, kind of turning politics into a sports debate.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the hustle.

If there's a market for it, then there's a market for it.

But I just mean, you know, I think somebody who has arisen to the top of ESPN, and he's earned it, I'm not in any way upset about it, but...

If you harbor certain views, you're not going to rise to the top of ESPN.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And so I think that there's probably an Overton window within which he constrains what he talks about.

That was a... A personal legal matter that I think reflected poorly on him one way or the other.

I don't know if it's the same.

I mean, not to say that there aren't people who haven't been, you know, lectured or censured or whatever for speech.

That probably, of course, has happened.

I just don't know if that's Shannon's situation.

I actually have what I would call mixed feelings about that.

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