Dan Le Batard

I wasn't allowed to talk about the things that I wanted to.

There was interference, there were issues, and then the last straw on that was during layoffs, one time they just come in and didn't even tell me they were letting go of my best friend's son, and nobody was even informing me until after it happened.

And so,

I rehired him at a dollar more than whatever it is that they were paying him, and I kept him on air, and that's when the whole thing just blew up.

What was the job that Chris had when he was rehired, Chris?

He was so bad at it.

He was so bad at it.

He was so bad at it.

He was my assistant, allegedly, but I couldn't get a hold of him.

I'm way better at my job now, believe it or not.

The way to prove that ESPN made a mistake firing Chris was for Dan to put him in a job in which he was absolutely terrible.

The thing about that, though, is that as a symbol or a hood ornament on what we're doing, I would say it ended up being a huge favor that ESPN did me because I never would have even imagined, never mind done, I never would have imagined that.

doing any of what happened next, which is to create a safe space for the people I care about and the things I care about in a world that I now don't recognize and didn't see coming because it's so unsafe.

I did not see any of this happening five years ago.

When I say any of it, I mean this company, but I mean America too.

I did not see any of this coming and happening to the media.

Well, I think it's really important to point out that, like, why do I feel protected and certainly funded, but also emboldened to take on figures that have a lot more money than all of us combined, multiple times over in billionaire owners and at times the actual U.S.

government and...

various celebrities, on and on and on, is because of the stuff that Dan actually was kind of coercing Chris to do while you guys were at ESPN.

That was the spirit, was even inside of the company that was paying you, you would be willing to do things that made it uncomfortable for those people who were in charge.