Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what

this sound is. I don't fucking tell any other human being what to say, what to

think, and there's no leashes on any of them.

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You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey! I don't want to do an episode with you where we moralize. I don't want to be confused in our conversation here

with like an attempt to cancel anybody. No. Just because I don't think that's what I find most interesting.

When I think about the stuff I want to talk about with you. Great, I don't want to do that either. That's perfect.

But I do want to talk about freedom of speech.

Yes. Because the story here that I find

endlessly interesting is the story about how the sport that you love more than anybody else I've ever

known who has covered MMA and the UFC longer than anyone else in our business really,

how that sport, how that business has become the champion, the foremost champion of freedom of speech. the been a slow build if you will. So you should know that Ariel Halani is the host of the

MMA Our podcast and he has covered this sport for almost 20 years and I would say

what's beautiful about MMA and what has always drawn me to MMA is the fact that it is unlike the other major sports, right? I grew up I

wanted to be a sports broadcaster like any other kid who went to Syracuse

University I wanted to be the next Bob Kostas Marv Alberta when I got there there

were 2,000 kids there that all wanted to be the same thing and this is 2001 and

the UFCs eight years old and it's a little

rough around the edges and it's not even legal in half the states in America and I

say to my parents I want to cover this because no one's covering this I want to be

the Howard Co-Sell of this sport.

And the term MMA had just been born. It wasn't even called MMA in the early days.

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