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Ariel Helwani Is Building His Own ESPN. He Already Has 1m+ Followers. He Tells Us How.

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I knew he wanted me out. He wanted me out from before I even got there. Like from the moment the news came out that I was signing, he was trying to get me to not even have day one at ESPN. And so just being a hundred percent honest, th I I'm a petty guy. There was a part of me that almost wanted to stay In spite of him. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to

I put my law in it like my day song. On the roadless travel, never looking back. We're live now, so we we always hit recording right away. Oh wow. Hitting me with the uh the blind sided live. I like it. Well it's it's said. That's how the real pros do it, Ariel. I don't know how you guys do it on TV, but the real pros just go live abruptly in mid time. I love it. I love it. I'm always ready. So we um Do y we got introduced through a friend, my uh our buddy John, who's apparently your closest buddy.

And um I like I don't know what you know about us and we could tell you about it in a minute, but basically like we're we're pretty popular in the business world and let's start with that. Yeah, pretty big deal. Pretty big deal is what's happening. Anthony Pettis is a fan, I know that. Yes, we're we're not nearly as big of a deal as you are in your world, but like, you know, we're on the cusp of being pretty big. And Uh we've talked to a bunch of amazing people. We've talked to titans of industry. We've talked to billionaires, we've talked to people who have tens of thousands of employees, people who

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