Hello, this is Dan Lebitard. Welcome to another edition of South Beach Sessions. It's been a lot of fun and

illuminating to talk to my friend John Skipper the new CEO of Metal Arc Media project.

We're starting around here that we will begin to unfurl here with this and other episodes where we introduce you to people

who are going to be in our world now as we expand as a pirate ship and as an entity that tries to sail

into the future of digital media and I've enjoyed talking to my friend John. I usually do. I think that many of you have

gotten a pretty good look at who he is and his articulation for this vision if you've heard episodes

one and two because I thought episode two was particularly strong in terms of introducing you to this man

and what he's about and who he is as he leads this company into the future. What I wanted to do with the next two episodes

is talk a little more about the breadth of his career. He's had an interesting career. You're talking about a man who over a

decade was the most powerful person in sports and over a few years, five years, six years made for Disney more

money than ESPN has ever made was Disney's leading money maker. Think about that for a second over a period of time

and that put him in some big rooms and some big meetings with big power and I thought you'd like to get a

look at the machine from the inside because usually we don't get to get where the power is. So over the next

couple of episodes now that we've introduced you to who our CEO is, I want to sort of go through his resume

with him and with you so you could get a cleaner look at some of the big things that he's had to be involved in

that have changed sports and sports content the way you've consumed it over the last decade or so.

So here again the CEO of Metal Arc Media our friend our new leader John Skipper this is part three of what

might be a four part series or might be a five part series we're not sure just yet but here's part three with John

Skipper.

When you were starting ESPN the magazine or starting ESPN.com what you regard as the most fun you've ever had

in a job is it either of those is it rolling stone what is the place that you would identify this is

the most fun I had working because it's going to be now it's going to be whatever you do with the rest

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