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The Ariel Helwani Show
Disconnecting from Devices
This chapter features a humorous exploration of the speakers' relationships with smartphones, discussing the freedom found in disconnecting and the challenges of modern communication. They share personal anecdotes and critique smartphone dependency while stressing the importance of maintaining personal responsibility in a digitally connected world.
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Speaker 3
Like,
Speaker 2
what? He got it all sorted. So I actually didn't have my phone on me. I was watching Arsenal Man City, a local bar. Fantastic game. Did you say you don't have your phone on you? Like, do you literally leave it at home? Yeah, leave it at home. Leave it in the glove box of my car. No, that's nuts. Completely disbanked. How do you do that? It's actually amazing, and the amount of times that I feel for my pockets to like check for it, it's so freeing. Can you do
Speaker 1
this, Rick? I
Speaker 2
could never. Neither of you guys could ever do it. I mean, the amount of times where it's just like, the phone is almost like another person in the room. It's just like, I hear you talking to his phone. Hey, Rick's on his phone. He can't hear you. That's
Speaker 1
actually
Speaker 2
not true. I don't think that's true, but I do think it's real. There's times where Rick, I'm like, he can't hear us right now. I'll it on. I don't know. I don't know. You can tell when the neck gets craned, when the neck gets craned and like you I could just be like, uh, I need to work on that. There's a small fire in the kitchen. We need to evacuate the building. Now you just be like, nah, my favorite. He'll put the phone down. he's like see you guys when I do something it's the best part is this you're saying this well the the go-to line for Ariel's just one second no wow yeah I must just ignore it right I don't even think it's just a blow so
Speaker 1
at least have the courtesy of Connor
Speaker 2
heard
Speaker 1
something but you don't know what you heard at least it's not Rick keeping his ring notifications on for the world to hear. It's like, Jesus,
Speaker 2
we need to know every time a squirrel passes
Speaker 1
by your front door, my God. I've never heard anything like this. We need to know about every, like you still talk to this guy and you'll get 40,000 ring notifications. Who wants to hear this? Then you'll get Slack notifications. Then you'll get tweet notifications. How does your wife live like this? Is your wife the same way? Okay, so let me say two things here. One,
Speaker 3
I accept all this. That's a difference, right? Helwani's trying to deflect this. I don't. I know exactly who I am. Number two, I need to know. I need to be in the know. What's the point of having these things, if not to be notified by them? Oh, the notifications. I actually, I play a dangerous game. I need everything. I don't
Speaker 1
get notified. My phone has not vibrated for I think two three years.
Speaker 2
So it never vibrates. I know you I mean you you your your reply ability your ability to reply to almost everything is. Makes it a little scary the fact that I don't
Speaker 1
get notifications but yeah so fast.
Speaker 2
You can really you can really tell when Hawani is on, when he's on planes, because he locks in. Like it's like, he gets the wifi and it's like, when you know Hawani is just like, the response is like, he can't like, you respond to him and then you set the phone down and before you even put it down, he's already responding.
Speaker 3
We had what would have been like a two hour call, just over text and then the WOZ news drops in the middle and I'm like, oh, by the way, like I know we're rolling right now, but by the way, what better than the alternative? Is it better than someone just being in my, am
Speaker 2
I? I give you massive credit for your, like, I think I was saying it to Rick the other week, I was like, the fact that he's able to just get back to everyone all the time, and like, I don't like it. Just maintain all these relationships is astounding. There's I mean there's times where I step where I go to the How long do they have to get back to you?
Speaker 1
Until I get fucking pissed until I like I wish you send the wave emoji 30 seconds five minutes. Oh, they wave emoji. Don't get me sorry I mean I sent a thing up to the slack to the group channel. I was like hey. Can you guys get this up five hours later? There's nothing going on. What would you emoji? What's the, what's the, is there an excuse? I don't have to talk about that. This wasn't my place here. It's a group effort. Is it that? There's a, there's a, yeah, the wave emoji is like, yo, hello, one hour Frank is the answer. There's times where I step in and go to the bathroom. There's no excuse, there's no excuse in this day and age. We all know that we're tied to our phones, except for Connor, apparently. There's no excuse. When someone says, I miss him, no. I was talking to Cam Hawkins, new member of the team. This dude showed me a screen grab. He had, I think, 200 unread text
Speaker 2
messages on Twitter, which I saw. I read all of my pub.
Speaker 3
I might just take a little bit longer to get this. I think those have been moved on from. You know what I'm saying like there's those are not actually Gonna get replies those just clean them up every
Speaker 1
night before I go to bed. I tried to wear out email
Speaker 3
down to zero inboxer zero text I'm
Speaker 2
also strategic with when I bail on my phone. It's not gonna be noon on a Monday, and you're gonna I know it doesn't have this kind of it's sad, but it makes me
Speaker 3
uncomfortable. Oh of course. It's an anxiety should not having it We should just say you have gotten better in terms of checking the social media all the time. Oh, yeah. Like you have, your habits are improving, even though that in particular, having the phone on you is still a thing. Working progress. We went on this long tangent just for me to say, I didn't have my phone on
Speaker 2
me and I come back to my phone a few hours later to five text messages from PT. Get officially out, I think. we put Ferguson in now? Or too late did it oh shit. I think I actually dropped kiddo from the squad instead of the team fuck that up bad Oh, no, then three hours later. I didn't have a phone on me the whole like rectified with commish I
Speaker 3
was gonna say did we need Commissioner intervention or
Speaker 1
three Adam and was top of the I hope he's all listening here. We'll find out if he is. But it's actually a blessing in disguise because now he could finally drop the trade that has gone so far. The Commission came back and helped him out. So I think it's like a quid pro quo. Like, oh, yeah, I agree. We're also
Speaker 2
3-0 and like we're handling ourselves. We're gonna win regardless.
Speaker 1
So we don't need to lean on that anymore. You need a big knife from the boys and girls. Yeah, we got it. We're also 10 to 15 minutes late to this meeting. So if they ask us what we were doing just tell them working We're not listening to this. Love you all. Thank you so much for listening Downloading subscribing all those things and more please follow please rate review. We were shooting up the ranks I don't know what those charts are but we were shooting up them the
Speaker 3
mysterious charts Let's keep doing those charts. I
Speaker 1
hope you enjoyed this again October 14th Circle it on the calendars, but there's plenty more to come between now and then and there's a lot going on behind the scenes so much fun building this empire airplane, whatever you want to call it and We appreciate your support and patience throughout it all. You're probably listening to some music here that is familiar. It's correct. It's a death. Thank you to Frank for making that happen.
Speaker 3
Frank loves that. Frank loves when you say that. Keep
Speaker 1
it locked. Much more to come. Peace. We're out of here.
Ariel is back from London, so he and the boys reacts to his Wembley Stadium experience for Daniel Dubois' shocking KO of Anthony Joshua, his Conor McGregor interview - including McGregor’s potential 2025 return, Dana White's latest boxing plans, a UFC Paris preview, and more.