Here you go.

go. go. Arielle Hellwani. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is a

Sampson sit down with someone who I've been trying to get to come on this show since the early days of the craziness in Montreal and

Levitard you know him from m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m growing faster than my sport. By far, I'm proud to introduce Ariel Helwani. Come on, hey, how are you?

Hello David, it's nice to talk to you again.

For the record, you reached out to me,

I think a couple of days ago,

for the first time to come on and I said yes right away

so I don't know where these other requests have gone perhaps to Jerry but not to me I

I think it was just I think it was through Meadowlark bookers.

You can't trust the bookers.

You have to go, this is why by the way on my program, thank you for the kind words,

since 2009, we have done shows from then until now the only person to

ever book a guest on the show and we average around 10 a week is myself because I

feel like you just you got to you got to send the text and people are

less inclined to say no if it's coming directly from you. So you changed your

number I had your number and I texted it and it went green and I was extremely suspicious in this day and age when green happens.

So I texted our mutual friend and he must have asked you permission because I got the real number and you answered in a jiffy.

Yes, that is true. I did have to change my number if only because an MMA fighter was trying to have a go at me as they say over in the UK he's a British fighter and he

posted my phone number on Twitter and it was a why was he having to go at you?

Well, you know, maybe we were going a little back and forth.

As you know, I'm not one to back down and his retaliation, which I thought was a low blow, which he has since apologized profusely for, was to post my phone number on Twitter, which was an awful, awful, awful experience.

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