544. Ari Emanuel Is Never Indifferent

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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He turned a small Hollywood talent agency into a massive sports-and-entertainment empire. In a freewheeling conversation, he explains how he did it and why it nearly killed him.

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0:00.0	You know the funny thing just before I answer that question?
0:08.8	Ariel Emanuel is telling a story about his family.
0:11.7	They lived in Chicago.
0:13.2	His mother grew up there.
0:14.2	His father had immigrated from Israel.
0:16.2	They were not a boring family.
0:18.5	There was always change in our lives.
0:21.2	When Aryan's brothers were kids, they spent summers in Israel.
0:24.7	They would always do things that they would shave our heads in the summer so we would
0:28.1	walk around when we come back from Israel.
0:31.3	People didn't do that back then.
0:33.2	Why did they shave off your heads?
0:34.6	Who the fuck can do?
0:36.1	I still shaved my head on the same day that they shaved my head.
0:39.5	I'm 62.
0:41.2	So in two weeks, my hair will be gone because that's when they shaved my head and I still
0:47.2	can do it.
0:48.2	It's insane.
0:49.8	His mother was a civil rights activist who took the kids with her on protests and was
0:55.4	arrested several times.
0:57.5	His father was a pediatrician who sued the city of Chicago for allowing the use of lead
1:02.3	paint.
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