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South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

John Skipper Part 2

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Comedy, Sports, Society & Culture

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of South Beach Sessions, Dan continues his interview series with John Skipper to lay out their vision for Meadowlark Media and talk about John's time at ESPN, including how cord cutting changed the business and some of his biggest regrets and successes at ESPN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to South Beach sessions doing it a little bit differently over the course

0:08.4

of a few episodes here want you to get to know the man who is now running our dysfunctional

0:15.0

little family here the CEO of metal art media John Skipper my friend over many episodes

0:21.9

we are going to show you who the new CEO is and this is the second of those episodes

0:27.6

from the first if you have not caught the first you can get it but if you have caught the

0:32.2

first I thought this one was better than the first one in terms of telling you what it

0:37.4

is that we're going to lay out here in front of you as we build out the pirate ship here

0:41.8

is our friend and the new CEO John Skipper first in terms of messaging there are a lot of

0:49.9

people here a lot of sports media reporters who are interested in what the hell you and

0:54.7

I are doing together because nobody knows anything in fact you and I have only talked around

1:00.0

the fringes of some of this stuff that we're doing so this is the first glimpse some people

1:03.8

are getting into this and into you because they don't really know you you for all of your

1:07.8

power you can have some anonymity because it's not a face that's on television a whole lot

1:13.6

yeah it's funny I used to believe that I had the greatest job in the world in which I was

1:22.6

never recognized in public and that was actually a quite a great luxury right I've been with

1:27.5

you and I've seen both joy you get from encountering some of your fans and community but also

1:36.5

the I've seen with a number of people I worked with the sort of interruption that that

1:41.1

provides your ordinary life I never had that ordinary life interrupted I'm thrilled to

1:46.4

be able to come on and have a direct conversation and then relationship with your fans one of

1:52.7

the things that excites me the most about being with you is that I know that your Legion

2:00.2

of followers friends colleagues has a special relationship with you and I want to make sure

2:07.1

and it's one of the reason we're doing these podcasts is that want to make sure that

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