The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - David Samson Reacts To The Death Of LIV Golf | Hour 1 (feat. David Samson)

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

"WHY ARE ALL OF THESE SCIENTISTS DYING?" David issues a ruling on some of the strange in-office decorum, and it leaves Tony needing a break from the show. Plus, David has strong feelings on Michael Yormark's potential appointment at the University of Miami, ABS in MLB, the Boston Red Sox, the World Cup, the end of LIV Golf, and sex cults. Sex cults? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Draft Kings. The crown is yours. David Samson, nothing personal. We'll talk some baseball with him here. And a reminder that Jeremy Tashay is doing many, many baseball things all over the place, including interviewing Liam Hicks on his own television program

that can be found where? Marlins.com. TV, Dan, anyone in the state of Florida. It's on television program. It's called Talking with Tashay. Yeah, it is. What do you mean? Why you laugh at it? Did you pick the name or?

It's a good name. He's got a lot of jobs and David Samson. I've got some baseball questions for David Samson, but first, as our resident germaphobe, polite or impolite to put lotion on your body in front of people. At the beach? No, like here at the office. Unacceptable. Go to the bathroom.

Polite or impolite to use a Q-tip in public. In your ear? Yeah. Hey, yo, hey, fist me, dude. No, in your, no. Up your, yeah, up your. If you're using a Q-tip to clean a surface or using a cue tip in a way that, then that's fine. If you're using it to clean an orifice, do it on your own side.

An ear, a, polite or impolite to floss in public. The string floss? Out of the question. Okay. There are these things you can use that are, um, they're like scope little things with tiny strings. The sticks. The sticks. That's what Tony was doing.

Yes. Tony, that's fine. But you got to do the hand cover. I learned this from each row. You do the hand cover where you, you, you, it's what you do in Japan. You take the toothpick or the floss stick. You cover your, cover your mouth. Just like that.

That's totally fine. And that's expected at restaurants, actually. That's why there's toothpicks at restaurants. Thank you, Dave. So Dan came in during the Shadow Show was like Tony did something disgusting. He was picking his teeth with floss. And I was like, first off, did not use floss.

Floss indicates that I've got it around my hip fingers like a long fishing wire and taking stuff out of my teeth, which I wasn't. I had a tiny little fish. Not fish. Damn. I had a tiny little floss stick. He said fish he didn't mean to.

Floss stick. Okay? And I took out one little piece and I turned around, Dave. I was facing Pat Riley over here. This is exactly what I did. Matt Riley? He said, Tony. tone. If that's true, Dan, that's legitimate and expected because if you're going to be on TV,

you don't want a head of lettuce in your teeth. Thank you, Dave. All right. Tony has wildly misrepresented everything, and it's not the worst thing about what just happened. Okay? I don't know what happened to Tony, but the only reason I noticed is not because he turned his back to me and not because he had his hand covering it. It's because he was flicking shit out of his teeth in front of everybody. And so The thing that I want to do with you, which of these three things is the least polite of the three? It took me a while to get here, but which would mortify you the most? Any of the three examples I gave you? It is just unbelievably disgusting to have string floss around your fingers and floss your teeth.

No, that's not the one he was doing. He was doing it with a stick, but he wasn't doing it discreetly. He was basically, nobody else noticed but you. Okay. He might as well have been flossing with a stick. towel between his legs, it was such an active intimacy that I shouldn't have been seeing. Is it old man crocodile arms with skin flakes coming off during the lotioning process? It's just lotion on the skin. It's not disgusting flakes on the floor.

Because that would win. Just regular lotion would not rise to the level of extracting a piece of food from your teeth in front of people. Have you ever? But lotioning your arms when flakes are coming off, that would be like, scratching your dandruff in a meeting. Have you ever done an ear candle? That's a private question. What? That's the question.

Not that I haven't paid for. That's okay. You're not willing to answer that question. No, I have not. All right. Just tell me what we need to do here because I've gotten us in a bit of a quagmire. I want to talk sports and sports business in a second. However, I've got corporate breathing on my neck.

They're worried about setting fires near ears of employees. I didn't do every. that we've done as a company to be fearing fire around the ears. But I've got a lot of people worried about liabilities out there. And now, Zaz is doing the worst of the things. Because when you're worried about liabilities, what you don't want to do is check the internet for your maximum fears. No, you got to.

It's like checking your sickness at WMMD. You don't want to read any of what's there because this is not as scary as people think it is just because it's fire near the ears. No, it's the smart thing to do. And it says here, ear candling is an, ineffective and dangerous practice where a hollow lit candle is inserted into the ear to remove wax, often causing burns to the face of hair or if it falls on you, yeah. Ear canal and can lead to ruptured ear drums or ear canal blockages.

It continues with proponents claim the heat creates a chimney effect or vacuum that pulls out wax, toxins, or debris. However, this has been thoroughly debunked as a pseudo-scientific myth. You know about that pseudo-scientific myth? By whom? What's your source there? By pseudoscientists. But aren't the ones creating it?

It's worse than a hot pepper, Dan. Just keep that in mind. Fire near the ear inside a studio where I can't imagine that the sprinklers are working or that the alarm actually would be listened to given how often it goes off. I would say that the fire is worse than the hot. pepper. Zaslow, I don't believe pseudoscientists are the ones who debunk pseudoscientists. I believe it's scientists who would debunk pseudoscientists.

What a little scientists up to, by the way? Debatable. They're getting killed. We need to look into that. We haven't talked about that. We haven't talked about that. There's 15 scientists dead across two years. We haven't talked about it.

Just go ahead, Dave. He want him to talk about it? I would like his thoughts on it because I'm sure he's patting to the news like a real man. Tony, you will not believe this, but I had dinner last night with my children. And the conversation that came up was all of these scientists who were dying. And I hadn't heard of it. And it came up last night at dinner and now today with you. So I must tell you, I did zero research post-dinner pre-show.

I was watching basketball and preparing for shows. So I know nothing about it other than what I was told at dinner between courses. which is there are mysterious circumstances surrounding the disappearances of certain scientists who may believe that there's stuff going on that could smell of simulation.

That's all I got for you. Dave, when you get up to snuff on what you got going on with the UFOs, you can have me on, you know, nothing personal. Me and you can discuss notes and we can talk about it.

Tony, I'm going to take a break. Just I'm not going to throw you in the penalty box. Just cool off outside. Take a walk. Just for 90 seconds. I've been upset about the scientists. You haven't. You haven't rang the alarms, okay?

As the Paul Revere of this show, you haven't ran any alarms. I'm the one that has to do it. The only time you haven't been talking is when you've been flossing your teeth. The Paul Revere of this show. Rung. True or not true? I haven't rung any alarms. Just go sit outside for 90 seconds and just cool off for a second.

One if by land, two if by sea. What about through the air, Dan? How about the UFOs? Just gather yourself, and I will put on the poll for you, are we in an apocalyptic place when no one's talking about? the mysterious dying of the scientists, because it is fair commentary from you. We will get more of it later, perhaps more coherently than we've gotten it thus far. Among the questions I want to ask about local business here before we get off the topic,

because it's an important job and an important time at a university that care about in a region I care about. And so the University of Miami Athletic Department head job, A, is that a good job? given what your business experience has been in Miami, and B, how disastrous would it be on a scale from, don't do it over my dead body, to totally apocalyptic, to have your mark, a your mark in that position.

When I read that Michael Yor Mark was a candidate, I laughed because it can't be that the University of Miami has gone into such a sinkhole that it would consider hiring someone whose main claim to fame is fraudulently doing, doing deals in order to make a team look as though it's performing when it's not. And I have firsthand knowledge of this because when we were, would have the presidents club down in Florida for the professional teams, the deals that your mark was making up in sunrise

were absolutely, he was giving away tickets, signage, sponsorships in a way that when we would approach companies or the dolphins or the heat, they would say, pay for tickets or for signage. Are you kidding me? We go to the Panthers and we get it for free. When we go to law firms or go to individuals, pay, I'm not paying for tickets. I get them free. If you want to give everything away in Miami and not be respected by anyone in your conference or your city, then that's who you hire. And that may be your gig. That may be what the boosters want. They want someone they can, you know, say as a name because the Yormark name has sports business cred, except for everyone in sports business. ironically, and except for anyone in business, business ironically, but again, I digress. So I would say that that would be a straight loser hire.

But listen, if that's what Miami wants to do, then good luck to Miami. No, no, no, it can't be what they want to do. It must not be what they want to do. Is it a good job or not? I wouldn't say it is a good job anymore. It used to be 10, 15 years ago, the job of the AD in general was a really Ray Cherche job. People wanted that. it was a step up that but what it's become within the era of NIL and in the time of of boosters having

control in a way that they didn't used to have the fundraising has completely changed the budgets have completely changed how you operate has changed so for me being an AD in general is now a down-tick babysitter but being in Miami I love University of Miami I love the campus I of the people. So it's good in that regard, but AD jobs in general are on the downtrend. As I mentioned, Jeremy and Adnan-Virke will tackle some of what's going on with the Red Sox, but I want to ask you as our baseball guy, the management of both the Red Sox and the Phillies, Don Mattingly becoming the manager of Philadelphia and everything that just happened in Boston. What were your most interesting takeaways on both of those situations?

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Stugats. It's the fine. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. Did you think that that could or would happen to Cora? I understand that you don't have generally too much. regard for managers, but I thought he was one of them who had actual and real power. Yeah, I was, well, what we've seen develop, certainly when Craig came in, there was a concern. And remember, we had him as a Marlin.

And the concern was that he was going for something in Boston that would go against what they had been doing, which means he was going for more power than had existed. Because remember, Kora Khyam-Bloom. wins. There's always power struggles. I didn't think Craig would win one so quickly, but it didn't help that the Red Sox have not performed. But to me, that's been a personnel issue, not a manager issue. Do you have a personal power struggle story? Do you have, or one that you've enjoyed because it's a baseball power struggle story that doesn't involve you, but you think of it as the most fascinating of the power struggles. Because I just, I really, I may be an idiot about this, but I did

think that Cora was kind of in charge. Well, Larry Bynfest lost a power struggle the Dan Jennings in the Marlins, and that's how Larry lost his job as president of baseball operations. There are power struggles between GMs and managers. Joe Girardi lost the power struggle that he had. He lost to me and to Larry, actually, in that power struggle in terms of how he got and lost his job. Yeah, their power struggles at every level. So I don't know what you mean when you thought Cora had it, because you can have it one day and then not have it the next day. There's only one person, and here's a spoiler alert for power struggles that involve an owner, always go with the owner because the owner doesn't lose power struggles.

And the case of Medallark as an example, it'd be wise to go with you, Dan, in a power struggle. So a little word to employees that in a power struggle situation, always choose the person in charge. Yeah, you say that, except I always feel like, like I lose power struggles around here. I can't even get Tony to clean his teeth right and then speak correctly. So that's not a power struggle.

That's just a respect issue. And that's, you know, show and I, and you, that's your, that's your schick. Like, oh, I lose every power struggle. And oh, I'm not a business guy. And, oh, I don't even know what's going on in my own company. But none of us really buy that. That's his impression of you. I mean, it's a terrible impression.

And you may not buy it, but you know that you actually know that it's true. And you're putting on a public. face here. Do you see anybody getting fire around their ears? Yeah. Do you get do you see anyone getting fired? Is what I would say. I saw a couple people. Yes. I know.

No. I have not seen anyone around here fired. Are your glasses fogs? Wait to see. Vancouver police here have denied FIFA a motorcade. This is my entry point on the World Cup here

because this Gianni Infantino is carrying the tradition well of Sep Blatter, who once ran FIFA. Let me tell you, I like you. You brought me again into the FIFA. I stay with you. You have voted for me. All those they have voted for the Prince Ali. I congratulate you.

It's a good candidate. But I am now the president of everybody. So I am the president of everybody. There is no retentence. That's just... President of the whole FIFA. Voila. So Gianni and Fantino wanted a motorcade and Vancouver said no motorcade.

Is FIFA the most corrupt organization in all of sports? It is, but it has nothing to do with the motorcade. It's such a funny Fagasy that people are doing right now. They're saying, look at what a crookie is. He wanted a motorcade. The number of times that we requested motorcades in Miami, you get granted those motorcades if you pay the right amount of money, You pay the expenses of it.

There are certain rules in place of priorities of if there are multiple people looking for motorcades at multiple times. So what him requesting it is not a big deal, them turning it down because they claim the rule is that it's about heads of state only and it didn't rise to the level of what we would consider to be motorcade worthy. Well, if the price is right, you can get a motorcade. but Infantino to me, the reason for his corruption, just look at what's going on with the World Cup, look at who's hosting the World Cup over the next couple of World Cups and the previous one, and you know that the only way they do business

is by making sure that they personally profit, which, by the way, in our country is happening at the highest levels in the White House, so it becomes something that is normalized. So I was not taken aback by this story the way other people were, but that's happened to me with several stories recently, which means it must be user error, where I'm viewing things not

as big a deal as other people are. Well, but I was taken aback when I saw that the, uh, the U.S. opener, uh, isn't selling tickets. And when you talk about the price of things, like I, I did take notice of that because, uh, that was not one that I saw coming. The price of tickets being so high that you would have trouble selling for the opener. David, when last reported, only 40,000 tickets have been sold to the U.S. World Cup. opening match. The reason for this is the ticket prices are insanely high, and FIFA has crunched the numbers, and this alleged non-for-profit organization has decided they would rather have a half-full stadium at the current price point than have a full one at a lower price point because

they make more money this way. And that is the driving factor here and not growing the game or making it accessible to a host nation? If you could have one person in your ballpark who pays $100 for a ticket, would you rather have that or 100 people paying $1? Isn't it obvious? You'd rather have $100 paying $1 because they'll buy concessions and... It's the opposite. Why?

I want one person paying $100 because I can lower my operating expenses of running the facility. It guarantees me way more profit. So that's the math that people use. That's why when you look at attendance, you always have to look at average ticket price. Too many people look at the attendance numbers. Forget whether we make them up or not. Always look at total revenue and then divide it by people turnstile, and that gives you

your average ticket price. Let me follow you down this, but this is one of the reasons why FIFA is corrupt. You were a private enterprise. That was your logic. You were in charge of staffing. When FIFA is putting these World Cups up for bidding, part of the draw is the boost it brings to the local economy. You guys staff the building.

I don't have to pay for it. I'm FIFA. I'm putting it on the tournament. The draw here is the boost of your local economy, hotels, transportation, tourism industry, all that stuff goes up. If you don't give a rat's ass about how many people are in that building, you are falling short of what you sold to the host committee. I'm sorry, the draw for who, Mike? Are you talking about FIFA choosing North America to host the World Cup? Yes, yes.

The draw for the United States to bid on the World Cup is not like, oh, they'll charge 100. dollars as opposed to $1. They are staffing this. They are hoping that a bunch of people come to these host cities and spend lots of money. That's how they rationalize the cost of putting one of these on in the United States.

And for FIFA to not give a rat's ass about delivering more tourism. And I know that there's stuff going on in the United States that's also explaining why that is. But to not help with getting more people in the building, that is affecting people's bottom line that help pay to put on this event. But Mike, in the RR.

All of that is addressed. When North America bids to host, they have in there what the ticket prices will be at every level of every ballpark. There's literally a chart of every single stadium and what sections will be at what price. And FIFA agrees to that. And there's also an agreement of when that can change. What is the mechanism to lower the price or sometimes to raise the price if you hit certain goals of sales at certain times? So it's not that FIFA has had a change of heart or North America has. It's all predetermined when the bids happened. I'd like your analysis, please.

And I recommend to all of you nothing personal. If, for example, you are thinking to yourself, well, this Liv story seems complicated. Where can I get something that no one else is doing on the business expertise of what just happened with Liv? Please explain to me what was accomplished in other, What was accomplished bigger than being the initial whitewashing for it's okay to take dirty money this way? You might as well have golf tournaments where you have somebody wandering around the premises with a chainsaw because, you know, we're now taking money from, or a bone saw, excuse me.

We're taking money from the bone sawing of journalists. We whitewash that money. What did Liv create that was bigger and better and more successful than that? We led nothing personal with this this morning. It is a big story. The Saudis have walked away from Liv. The chair has resigned. The chairman of the board who runs the sovereign fund has walked away. And you've got a CEO, not Greg Norman, a guy named Scott O'Neill, who is telling you as his home is burning, hey, everything's fine here. Do you want to keep playing, you know, scatigories? And so what's happening is that a business that has never been a business. Live, let me be clear, that's not a business. It's not a business.

competing tour for PGA it was something that was propped up by billions of dollars in order to fake it they were faking being competitive to PGA by paying the amount of money they paid to get players to defect but the minute that money dries up and you hear the new they have a new board share this morning that was just announced by the way Dan and what he said is hey we're good we're going to find media deals we're going to find partners we're going to get financing no chance. Live is finished. There will not be live.

What happens to the players, how they get reintegrated into PGA. We talked about this morning. It's going to be a process and it's not going to be, it's not going to work out for all of them. I'll tell you that. But in terms of what we'll remember about live,

we won't. It's nothing. It's a tiny zit on a huge antelope as you're going 80 miles an hour down the highway. But what was accomplished? How much was... Nothing. How much was spent and what was accomplished?

Billions of dollars have been spent over the five, four, three, four, five, six years. Zero was accomplished because if you think that the reason why they're stopping funding live is, hey, you know, we've done it. We've finished our sports washing. We finished our money laundering. Everyone looks at Saudi Arabia and sees nothing but butterflies and unicorns. Our work is done here. That's not what happened. What happened is we realized that, in fact, the source.

Saudis, sometimes it is about business. And they've got capital needs elsewhere right now. Take a look at what's going on in Iran. Take a look at what's going on in Saudi Arabia. Take a look at the things that they cannot do. And you realize that cuts have to be made. What do you cut when cuts have to be made? Most companies cut the least profitable things. Live was like number one of idiotic investments. And they decided it was time to move on. and they did rather quickly. Don Levatard. I'm going to get some golf A-S-M-R.

Stugats. Oh, fuck me. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stucats. Chris, how do you absorb that as a golf fan? The entire experience of, well, we're going to tarnish Phil Nicholson forever as the first one who's not allowed to accept this money. Tiger Woods is going to turn it down famously, even though it could have been just a billion dollars clean,

on some absurd. Crazy. And just turned it down. What do you make of the exercise failing so spectacularly that I think we can say, is I guess maybe the UFL would be something of a precedent here on spending billions of dollars to try to compete with something and then just collapsing? It's just wild that it was such a failure yet the guys got so paid. Like the golfers made so much money off this.

Like there are so many golfers that are going to, their lives are different. because of this and it was just a useless, meaningless. No one gave a shit about it. Like, they wore shorts. That's it. Golfers got paid and they wore shorts and it was loud. Yeah, best I can tell, that's the only thing. That's what I'm going to remember about live golf.

They got to wear shorts. Yeah. How does that end up being the result on billions of dollars at a competing sports franchise? I mean, is it funny? Yes, as a return on investment, the answer is they got to wear shorts. Yeah, you never got to see their legs before this. And it was loud.

Chapter 11. So that's not my memory of Liv, but that's a funny thing that that's what's in your head. That's what gets accomplished for billions of dollars. It was loud and they wore shorts. Like that's a bad failure. John Rom seems like he hates it. So I'm starting with billions and billions of dollars. And the end result is at the end I get to see golfers wearing shorts and it was loud at golf tournament.

That's what we did. Yeah. Like the 17th hole at the celebrity tournament, but all the holes. And with no celebrities. I think live will be remembered for something different than shorts, Chris. I think live will be remembered as a cautionary tale for when there is such a huge amount of money put into something. And when you've got people in this country and around the world who are worth 250 billion, or the question of Steve Cohn and the Mets, it's sort of the same thing.

Do I just keep pouring money into a losing situation and hoping for a result? And the answer is yes, until. And the until can be two years, five years, eight years. Sometimes it can be a month with CNN Plus. It was a night. So there's always a time where you decide, okay, that's enough. And that's to me what I'll remember is that live, it was enough during the conflict in Iran. That's how I'll remember it.

That is a great phrase with CNN Plus. It was a night because that was one magical night where it looked. looked like there would be spending and then the spending was gone. But I just want to re-ask the question. You're saying that the way Live will be remembered, the greatest thing Live will be remembered for is successfully sports washing blood money by wasting it. No, I think that actually will pass as well. I think when you look back on Live 20 years from now,

I think you'll correlate it to the time that it stopped being funded and the impact. have to see now whether these sovereign funds will continue to be big time investors as limited partners in sports or in colleges or with teams or what they're going to do now. But if this is the beginning of them not just being a blind source of huge money for people, I think they'll go back to live and say this was the beginning of the end for that. Are you someone who has strong opinions one way or the other on ABS? Yeah, I want to get rid of the challenge system. I do have strong opinions, and I think I'm going to be right on this.

I think the challenge system is not going to be around for very long. I think ABS will just exist for every pitch, and there won't need to be challenges, and we'll get the 63 seconds back that we lose every single game because of ABS, and I think that that's what we'll see. I love the calls, and I want them to be right. I don't need for Jazz to get embarrassed as much as he gets embarrassed. I don't need the umpires to be upset or embarrassed. There's no need for it. We've got the technology to get every pitch right. And once the latency becomes a millisecond, it'll be a little dot in the

ear of an umpire and they'll call strike or ball and it'll be immediate and there won't be a challenge and every call will be right and we'll move on. I don't think it's a bad 63 seconds. First off, it's only 63 seconds. I do think that there's a little amount of fun tension there. I like the strategy behind it that you only have a certain number? I think it's going pretty well, Jeremy. Yeah, I mean, fans are loving it. We just talked about it yesterday at the Reds game and a seven to two game in the ninth inning. People are going ballistic because they get a strike overturn for a strikeout. It's creating these little moments. It's creating strategy amongst teams. And that's something that's been missing from baseball with the implementation of the

DH. Now there's an extra little piece of strategy that's adding one minute to a game that's already trimmed a half an hour. I agree with you that it is fun, but David's totally right. It's unnecessary and it will eventually be just... Oh, but humanity. Like, there is a humanity in baseball that the human error is such a part of it in every aspect of the game. And now we've eliminated it being a big issue in big moments. This feels like the perfect compromise to me.

Yeah, count on baseball, Jeremy. They showed Dan sleeping through my comments. That's our leader right there. You want to know why baseball's not focused on the show. I was listening to him. I had my ear to the microphone. You know Liam Hicks has the most RBI's. Most RBIs by a catcher

before the month of May in the history of baseball? Liam Hicks. That's what's wrong with baseball. Now on Marlins.com. Jeremy, I'm sorry. That is not supportive at all. And that's just wrong. Look at me. There I am. Me and Liam Hicks. He's got shorts on.

He's my size. He doesn't look at those Viori shorts. David, did you want to engage with the sparring? or did you not want to engage? Because it sounds like you are coming after something that is universally regarded as positive, a change for baseball that people no longer are complaining about baseball games being too long.

And furthermore, don't mind this particular minute at it, even though, yes, of course, they can be more efficient and they're going to get this more right as it goes. They're going to perfect the technology so it'll be even faster, but you seem to have an unpopular opinion here.

I don't hear people saying that. Yeah, but when I join your show, you always say, take your lead and take the lead of the container. And if you're asleep, why would I engage in sparring on a subject that you're sleeping? I wasn't asleep. I was thinking you guys were about to argue. I was not asleep. I was listening to the two of you and you guys bailed on the argument. It sounds like there's genuine disagreement here. It sounds like there's genuine disagreement here. And now you're just disagreeing with me as opposed to disagreeing with something that you're espousing. That's an unpopular opinion. Well, it's unpopular to be efficient and Jeremy talking about human error. Well, who wants human error? Nobody wants that.

We don't sit in committee meetings in baseball and say, you know what we want more of? We want more human error. No, we want to eliminate it. Do you miss the lines people at tennis tournaments? Do you miss the guy on the net seen if it's a let? Give me a break. There's no ABS. The technology is there.

We don't need the going ballistic in the ninth. I was actually whispering in Dan's ear there, Vlad Guerrero. And he was thinking on which team he associates Vlad Guerrero with. Who, who is it? Expos. Yeah, of course. Do you want to play this game with David? Because I think he's going to be appalled by what some of your answers were.

Roy saying he thinks of Clemens is a blue jay is offensive. Red Sox. I mean, but it's offensive. Like, that's no one, not people in Toronto are not associating Roder Clemens with the blue jays. Oh, yes, they do. He was really good. I'm not saying he wasn't good. I'm saying he's a red sock.

He was good everywhere. Fine. Astro. Astro. He's great there, too. I don't want to play. David, say a player. I think he won a Cy Young as a Blue Jay, correct?

Did he not win a Cy Young as a Blue J? He's good everywhere. Because his wife got sent, steroids, not him. No. That's Peyton Manning. That's Peyton Manning, I think. I think. Bronco.

Oh, no, Cole. it up. Did Clemens use the Peyton Manning before Peyton Manning used the Payton Manning? Just go if you, if you want to look it up, you can look it up, but you don't need to. He won a Cy Young for every team he pitched. Dude everywhere. What are you reviewing for us this week, David? This is something that please help me in this.

Did you see the documentary about the false profit? I did. Okay. Can you explain to me why fat, ugly grease balls. get all of these women to have sex with them and convince other good-looking guys to let this grease ball have sex with their wives and they can't anymore. You want to, you want me to explain to you why it is that the cult, that cults are always sex cults and that the sex cult documentary is something that's a very successful genre right now. No, I want to explain why are the head of cults always so ugly and greasy and fat and ridiculous? Why can't there be like a stunning Adonis-like cult leader?

And you're like, of course my wife wants to have sex with him. Look at him. He's amazing. This guy, this guy is, is, he, forget the fact that he's physically discussing. He's a pedophile. There are men giving their daughters to him to have sex with. The good news, and I don't care about spoiling it, when you give your daughter who's underage to have sex with a slime ball,

you're going to prison for decades. decades. I would do it differently. I'd cut off the shlong and then I do capital punishment. But that's me. But this documentary goes through the entire process of how this profit got taken down and it was an unreal job by an undercover previously victimized cult person who got herself in there and then worked with the police and the FBI to take them down. And I'm so happy the guy's rotting in prison. He cannot be violent. enough for me and frankly he should be killed for what he did but it is an interesting documentary and I encourage anyone listening to this if you feel

like all of a sudden you want someone else to have sex with your child please seek help Koresh kind of had it cooking yeah he's kind of thing it's like a psychopath guys Jared Letto too I mean Jared Letto's cult subjectively a good-looking guy you wanted me to explain to you false gods and how it is that all of these cult leaders and all of these genres end up tricking an assortment of people into thinking that they could get closer to God by having sex with them. Yes, I would.

I mean, I think that, but I think the genre is popular because everyone is confused by how any of this happens. Like, there are so many movies like this about the cult guy who promised spirituality and it had to be had through having sex with him. It's, I, okay. It's not that much. There could be a lot of movies about it because it's like watching a train wreck. you can't turn away. My only point of it is that it makes me so sad. You watch this four-part series

and you're devastated for these women and for these children and you think about whether it's Scientology or any of the other cults out there. You're thinking about the power that people have over others who are just insecure and looking for reason. I'm looking for reason now too, but not for a cult. But the part to me about that particular documentary that stuck out wasn't whether he was good-looking or not was the general absence of anything in the way of correct. Like, I didn't understand why anybody was following him for any reason because he had no charisma. Is that a cult thing that you have to have charisma? Well, TV, it's cult leader, not cult leader.

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