The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Top 5 Nuggets

Episode Date: June 1, 2023

What ever happened to The Slow Report? Dan speaks to the emotion this Heat team has jostled in him, and Jessica asks the rest of the crew what they'd prefer if only one of the Heat or Panthers can win it all. Then, Jessica makes a mistake that might get the show canceled and the crew takes an in-depth look at the Top 5 Nuggets of all-time. Plus, Dan had to fight to get David Samson on the show, and we proceed to waste his time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Levertar Show with this two-guts podcast. You know what I found? The heat sent me this Udonas Haslel package and I didn't open it until last week And they had all these Udonas has them cookies in it and I was like man that is I really should have I really should have opened this and And shared it on social media because I don't think I'm gonna get I got assigned Udonas has them Jersey and

That package and And there was a a taper player With a message from you Dean that you would play on the cassette player. Yeah, it was a really cool package that I really wish I shared on social media. You still have time? No, not really. Because it was to celebrate UD day. Oh, like three months ago. Yeah.

I compared on the slow report. What happened to the slow report? What happened to the slow report? What happened to the slow report? Yeah, listen, he got he got canceled for something on the slow report. What was it? It's booked you. Was it the queen dying? I'd have been. I had a queen dying. Okay, Jessica, this is a problem around here. And we'll get to the important local stuff in a second. But Chris Cody has suddenly re-emerged. Hey, thanks for that, Chris. There's a general problem our audience is noticing that the shipping container, there's a lot of big heads,

like people are getting filled with ego. Heat fandom has percolated in the room, making people extra obnoxious. Metal arc has very loose rules. Everyone can take vacation whenever they want to, which I suppose is why Stu got to this in here again today, although he tells vacation whenever they want to, which I suppose is why Stugats isn't here again today, although he tells you that on Stupatiti, if you want to hear from the winning coach, national championship lacrosse coach who shepherded his daughter

to a champion chip at Northwestern, that it's moving and you should check out Stupatiti, which when it drops, which I'm hoping airs at some point if Stugat's does his job, which no one can be certain of. Chris Cody, you learning from Stugat's on this is becoming a bit infuriating. You just vanishing yesterday and the day before where we just lost you. And now you're finally back. Welcome back. And what?

Thank you. And I texted you. And please, tone can be lost in Text your thoughts when I texted you where the hell are you? I responded to you where I was recording with adnan for seven hours No for two we were done. I like 2 p.m. Do you really want to get into nothing but nuts and bolts? This is not that complicated. I do I want to understand Why it is around here that the shipping

container in general is being accused of getting big headed because we have 72 podcasts at this network that need to be produced. But that's not big headed nist. That's people accusing you of big headedness and you saying I'm a hard worker. That's not the big head is just genetic. I mean, it's 75 years. He's very Cody son and 75 years. Noggin. it's multiple ways. He's got Cody's son and got a large noggin. It's a noggin. That's a big noggin. I used to wear a seven and a half,

but the seven and five H's just fits better now. Are you on H.C.H.? I, it, it, it's, it's, it's, it's jaws the same though. The little tight. His jaw is most certainly not the same. Yeah. Well, come on, I was trying to do a thing.

Okay. What? That's not nice, Mike, but you just did the Chris Cody. Hey, he's fat. He's, I'll raise my hand first. Pandemic was hard on all of us. Hey, he's fat. I'll raise my hand first. Pandemic was hard on all of us. Jessica, he's fat shaming. I'm not fat shaming.

I've gained like 30 pounds since 20. No, come on, Mike. That's not bad. Yeah, I mean, it's mostly mass. You are, it's mostly ego. It's end to ask. You are fat shaming. Chris Cody because.

Thank you. I mean, I'm Cody, because. Thank you. I mean, I'm sitting, so that's impressive. To be honest, there was one time where I was following Mike on the MetraReel, and I was looking at him, and I was like, damn, it looks like Mike, I was like, no, it is ass is too big. That can't be Mike. That's big.

And then it was Mike. You're doing it to what you're doing a lot of squats? No, like I'm just like, there's some medication. It made me gain weight, I'm trying. I'm trying to, I got a DJ that also sells those epic on the side, so. No. I'm just like there's some medication and maybe gain weight. I'm trying. I'm trying to I got a I got a DJ that also sells O's epic on the side so I'm gonna do that. We have so many of those in Miami. We have so many pharmacists with a second job I got an o's epic guy that I think I'm gonna do that and then just do like the post Malone say oh I stopped drinking soda put it on the Pole. Did you see Jesse Plemmins? Have you seen Jesse Plemmins?

Yeah, dude that love and death is a very good show. Yeah, my wife likes it, but he, he, he's lost a person in a half. Well, Jonah, Jonah Hill, Jonah Hill is totally unrecognizable. Jonah Hill doesn't look anything like he used to look. And this is a popular Hollywood thing. Put it on the pole, please, Judeo at Lebedtar Show. Do you have an ozempic guy? Yes or no? I want to address something here that is happening with the Miami Heat because I said last week to everybody who was listening Hey, the fear makes it all a lot more fun. You haven't really really feared in the playoffs. The Panthers have done some fearing How that first series was amazing. I'll remember it for the rest of my life because of the fearing in it. Like, I mean, the whole season could have collapsed first round, laughing at the Panthers again. Game five, it could have collapsed.

They had a breakaway at the very end of the third period with like one and a half seconds left. And Pobrovsky starts this run in that moment and then again in game seven. Well, game six are trailing and in game seven, they're down a goal with a minute left, half to pull. But Brodsky, Montorgette equalizer and then the rest is history. I've got some shitty shit going on in my life right now, just really bad shit. Lot of hospital visits, a lot for a lot of different reasons. And what this has jostled in me has been such a blessed escape to just feel the joy and fear of fandom. I no longer have to disguise. These people were at my wedding. These people, I love what the Miami heat. Brandon Montor was at your wedding?

Wow. What the Miami heat do? I was at the home. I was at the home of one of the Doug McLean in Canada watching a run with his parents and Mike makes fun of me all the time. Go. For those that don't know, those pay others' coach in 1996. But just I thought it was a guy from Die Hard.

Oh, that's John McLean. Oh, close. McLean. Forgive me, Mike's always making fun of me wanting to go back 25 years on things, whether it's UM baseball or hockey and he should make fun of me about it. But back then, when I was an up and coming journalist, the reason I got into this business is because holy shit, this stuff is great. It's so much fun.

And then a 25 year desert of our teams are never any good at anything. Never any good. And we'll have Panthers on. We're going to bury you in Panthers and we're going to keep annoying you with because I'm talking to the national audience here that checks in on the local hour and gets mad when we do all this shit. I got a I got a hit pause just a little bit Yes, we're in the local hour right now Roy and I know that there are people that are listening to us in Baface Island and South Florida, particularly the gravitating towards a local hour.

But it's permeating throughout the national show, as is every NBA finals since we've been doing this thing. It just so happens that the heat have been in seven of them since this has been a show. And it makes you obnoxious and Jeremy obnoxious and the shipping container obnoxious so much so that I believe Jessica is rooting against the heat and don't blame her. No. I want to go on the parade flow, Dan. Here's the thing though, I want to ask everyone.

Here's the thing. I want to ask everyone what their preferences because there's a few outcomes here. Both teams lose, saddest outcome, both teams win, happiest outcome. But possible likely outcome, one wins, one loses. Which team are you willing to watch lose? I mean, I've gone on record that it's not even close I want the Panthers to win their first Stanley Cup and the heat have been a wonderful franchise But I got the heat trophy if the video team can put it up. Oh god. Are you kidding me? This is my Lerial Bryan

This right here is my Lerio Bryant. This photo of Bill Simmons, shell shocked. Because his team got blown out in a game seven by 20. That's the Lerio Bryant to me. It's all gravy from here folks. It's all gravy. He does look like a shell shocked Marine coming back from Vietnam. Like what did I just see?

There's... He choppers going on in the background. I'm here to protect you. So we're willing to sacrifice the heat to the nuggets. I don't know about that. No, no, no, no. If you know nothing about South Floridians and American general, no, they're all greedy and I'm not.

I want it all. They want everything, even though what is happening with the heat it it has also summoned something that I've been legitimately surprised by like I'm like oh where did that come from I I thought that was dead years ago. Do you people understand how good Yoke it's I'm terrified actually actually to answer your question in one succinct answer. No, I don't know because I never really see them on TV And I saw them against the Lakers. I'm like, yeah, guys, pretty good. Okay, three time MVP is what he should be and what I'm telling you about that guy Is he does have the ability to very quickly what you were fearing last series with boss and all the countries going to laugh at us. They're going to laugh at the show.

We've been real loud. He can take out anything in four games. And this is why I would just say to you very simply, very simply. How do I know? Because I know it's a really bad match up for ban. And here's why it's a really bad matchup for anyone who has ever held a basketball in the history of sports. Yeah.

He's terrifying. It's he's got to get his the thing that you have to limit is the assist because if he gets a cyst, that means other guys are making buckets. Historically, since a heat of existence, a franchise them going to Denver has been bad news. Even when Denver wasn't a great basketball team, it's always been a difficult place for them to play. They don't come away with many wins over there. If you look by the individual matchups, there's even more cause for concern because Aaron

Gordon has actually given Jimmy Butler a lot of problems in their individual matchups. It comes down to all the other guys. I think the heat have struggled and shown you this postseason that they struggle guarding point guards. Jamal Murray is come online. There is there is so many basketball reasons Why the heat should lose and yet? I'm all in on the intangibles, but you can do all in on the intangibles And I would just tell you as we're starting that the country is expecting the heat to lose in four or five games That's the most bet it's the single biggest piece of action when it comes to prop bets on this series is

nuggets and well because I will tell you this and people objected to this yesterday and didn't seem to understand what I was saying. It would be the biggest upset in the history of the sport if this team wins the championship. And a lot of people are like, no, the giants and football, they beat the Patriots in this sport. This team never wins the championship. Allow me to put this in perspective for you. The heat were, I think, plus 370, well, 370 to one, 370 to one to win the NBA championship. The US men's national soccer team headed into the World Cup was 100 to one. The Houston Texans, 200 to one,

to win the championship in professional football and everyone knew they were bad. So this is outside of Lester City winning the English Premier League, possibly we're on the precipice of the biggest upset in sports history, the Miami Heat winning in NBA. Well, I won't go there. I will not go that far. the precipice of the biggest upset in sports history, the Miami Heat winning an NBA time. I will not go that far. They're already mocking me for the prisoner of the moment on just in this sport, but it's just in this sport.

Unfortunately, they're facing an ogre monster. Hello, someone listen to me. I need help lo que escuchéis, tapados los ojos. La calle llevamos todos a cieras, pero lo más aterradores no saber en qué confiar. Uy de las personas que os piden que mireis. Si queréis seguir convido. Birdbox, Barcelona. Estreno en Netflix el 14 de julio.

Te atreves a ver. Dan Levatard. Estreno en Netflix el 14 de julio. Te atreves a ver. Have a great day. Yeah, yeah. We'll see you all. VCC Don Limitahtar Show with its two cats. Draft King Sportsbook, an official sports betting partner of the NBA, has a limited time offer for new customers. Use code Dan when you sign up on the Draft King Sportsbook app to check it out. Jessica, what's going on with the subreddit between heat fans and nugget fans? We've got to find all the places. You have to understand the country is going to object to these finals.

I don't expect good ratings. I expect people talking a lot about the ratings. I expect a lot of the coverage between games to be about the Lakers and Steph Curry and all things basketball past that isn't heat nuggets because we're going gonna get told a lot that the nation doesn't care about this, that the heat just played the series

that people cared about. And even though Yokeitch is on a platter for you here, wanna watch him, he's really special. People think the answer's gonna be, no thank you. I'm not interested in this series. So we need fire and flames wherever we can find them, and you can always find them on any reddit yeah so the subreddits are both taking shots at each other so at first the heat

subreddit was posting pictures of chick-fil-a sauce and saying a vote to scare nuggets fans like alluding to chick-chicken nuggets like yeah we're gonna eat you exactly Chris Cody and then the nuggets subreddit was saying a vote to scare my amy heat fans and it was a lot of pictures of like my amy sinking underwater due to climate change. And then there was one of Che Guevara, which I thought was...

Oh, that one feels racist. That one is racist. That one also wasn't Che Guevara. It was also Fidel Castro. It was Fidel. It was Fidel. We're putting that in our hands. Other asshole evil person.

Sorry. I'll go to the panel. I'll go to the panel. I'll go to the freedom tower. Oh, yeah. That means that you're just going to the freedom tower. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll go to the freedom tower. I'll Go to the Freedom Tower. Oh, yeah. That means that you've got to learn your history. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Go to the Freedom Tower. It's a bad thing. Yeah. Follow her. I don't know what that is. It's next door and you need to find out. You need to find out. Somebody needs to explain the mistake you just made

because it's ended careers into a flow. Tony, can you walk with her and just get her history lesson? I'm not going to be happy about it. You've got a teacher. You've got to help her here. This is a good way. I love, I love, I love, boil it. She doesn't understand the calamity that she just walked into.

I will, I will get the greatest part of that. This is the greatest part of that. Ever. Yes, this is fantastic. I think it's under construction, so I don't know if you're gonna be able to take it to her, but Tony is gonna be your guide. Salute to you, Jess.

She's got a lot of learning to do. Can we send a mobile video team with Tony educating Jess? It's educating? It's educating. Well, it's not, Jeff. She's got a lot of learning. Can we send a mobile video team with Tony educating, Jess? It's a educating. It is. Well, it's not man. Yeah, educating because she just confused Jacob Harrow with feed Elk has a bad mistake. Yeah, I think it's fine. You can man explain like, Hey, different guy, same beard, right? I need to explain. I write what happened with Jessica

right now. Is a cancelable moment. We will not cancel her because we're a loving family here at Metal Arc and people can make mistakes. But that's a bad one. Yeah, we should also mention Chickavara, not without blame. We can give people a whole history lesson, perhaps we will, at the Freedom Tower that is next to us. I know it's cute when we're against machine, put them on the drum kit, but it's, you know,

that one's loaded. It's problematic for a number of different reasons politically Politically, no one cares acceptance out of Florida. You can't support equal rights if you're wearing a shake of our shirt. I'm just telling you. And I am called by the Cuban community down here, un gusano, a worm, because of all of my liberal leanings. But you need to be careful with everything that just happened

there. Jessica needs a real history lesson. We will not turn this into a giant controversy for her. But I was hoping to go and climb through the Reddit and find what we could in what is the conflict of this series. We need conflict. The conflict is fun. The fear is fun. We're going to fight with the Yokech brothers at some point. They're not going to think it's funny. We're going to try and hunt down the Yokech brothers and see if as a show we can can find them But I have to get back to what it is that Roy just did in the middle of that segment

Which is I think speak an eternal truth and a consensus and a time and division Nuggets are delicious. Yes, absolutely. No one disagrees with that nuggets are nuggets are unifying Yeah, maybe you're a vegetarian, but you want nuggets. Yeah, Matthew Kugler, the producer of South Beach Sessions, told me a fascinating fact about nuggets. That McDonald's just invented the entire concept. Yeah. He knows a lot, Matthew Kugler. He'll say it's soft spokenly, but he knows a lot.

He does, he has a lot of information, but I will not find a person in America, put it on the poll please, that Levitard show. Will I find a person in America who doesn't like Nuggets other than a non-vegetarian non-vegan but I'm telling you that those people want to do that they just don't want to think of chickens falling under cruelty. What percentage of the Nugget gets dipped in the ranch? So I go like three quarters deep. Yeah, I go as far as I can without touching the tip of my finger. Whoa, that's heavy.

You guys are heavy. So you guys, you guys, you guys, it depends on the sauce. If I got sweet and sour or ranch or poly sauce, it's going all the way. But what you guys are no longer having nuggets, what you're having is a delicious condiment that has a quarter of a nugget.

The nugget is just the vessel. It's just the vessel for the sauce in my mouth. As much Mike, as I agree with the not wanting to get the sauce on the fingers, when you do find yourself with like a half a nugget and you're not gonna not dip it, that's just a delightful feeling in the both your fingers going into the sauce and then what emerges is a fully engulfed third of a nugget and your fingertips just covered in sauce

and the whole thing goes in your mouth. Sauce in your mouth is better than on your chin. It's a gack. On the McDonald's side, though, they're very skimpy with those sauces. They only give you two sauces for 10 pieces. But nugget's not, man. Give me a nugget, let's go.

To me, it's got to be an even 50-50 dispersion. So you get 50% of the nugget. And then if you only end up eating that half of the nugget and you do have, say, half or third left, you get half of then what is left of the nugget covered you do have say, you know, half or third left, you get half of then what is left of the nugget covered in sauce as well. So always about that. If I'm eating nuggets with my pals,

that's me being considerate. I'll just go 50% of it. And nugget party. But if I'm at home at 3 a.m. and I just got the late night Mickey D's, oh, the late night. Well, this is a totally separate conversation. We're talking about a lot of-

We're just win-sitting it. Oh, yeah, definitely. Okay, so you guys need to help me with this because I'm not sure You're in the majority on this at Labatard show. Juju put it on the pole, please when you go nugget Do you want three quarters of it to be sauce or one quarter of it to be sauce because I think there are two different kinds of people in the world I'm just discovering right now, which is people who like their nuggets to taste like chicken and people who like their nuggets to taste like only sauce. I don't even taste like chicken.

This depends on the fast food chain. Yeah, and I am totally cool with that. If your fast food chain has nuggets that don't taste like chicken, that's fine. This is not exactly the nuggets preview. I assume we were going to have on a local. If you're only eating nugget and there's no sauce, I'll fight you. Oh, crazy person. You're a barbarian.

You're a barbarian. You're a barbarian. Nuggets essentially only exist for you to dip them in sauce. But you're teaching me something because I honestly, you guys are gonna correct me, I feel like here, but I feel like on the spectrum of foods, whatever is the worst nugget to the best nugget, like that they're all kind of the same. Like, it's hard to screw up a nugget. No, it is hard to see, you're right here and you're wrong.

It's hard to screw up a nugget, but they're not all the same. I'm not saying, I'm saying on the spectrum of foods, when I go this done well, this done poorly, what's the difference? I put nuggets up there with pizza. Like, yeah, of course there's gas station pizza, and I'm guessing you wouldn't want to eat nuggets from gas station. But maybe you would, because I feel like nuggets are bulletproof here.

You can get them almost anywhere, and they're never gonna be bad, and they have to be mad at pizza, because pizza. People are always saying of pizza. There's no such thing as bad pizza, and I just think there's no, but no such thing as bad nuggets. I feel like this there's no, but no such thing as bad nuggets. I feel like this is setting up for a top five nuggets. You're speaking on this right now, but you're also gonna hit us with this.

I haven't had a nuggets since 2008. No, I'll cheat with nuggets. Oh, I'm not sure. Oh, I like that. I like that. But you probably go no sauce, because you're trying to like... Well, no, no, I'm not a barbarian.

I, if I'm gonna... Let's toss off the choice. Come on, Dan. If I'm gonna cheat, I'm gonna cheat. Well if I'm going to cheat, I'm going to cheat. Well, I like the honey de j'on. It's what is your answer to me? What does Dan's like, if you are just going to let it go? Because you eat relatively healthy all the time.

Like if you're just like, I don't give a shit. I'm eating. Like, what are you ordering? It would be pizza and nuggets. This is like when you ask these questions to, you know, the defensive lineman or the offensive lineman that's lost like 150 pounds after the post-playing career. What does a Dan Lebitard cheat day look like? Well, it's got a lot of oatmeal ice cream in it.

So, Bill. And that's not a punishment? I know. I can't have dairy. And I know all of this. Just do it. No, it's just terrible for everybody. If I have dairy, it's just bad for everybody around me,

sense and smells and sounds and that not unsurprising. And it's unrelenting and how did we get here? I blame Jessica throwing the entire show off kilter with what is going to be a problem for me right now that I'm hoping becomes a viral moment that has Bill Simmons's picture in the corner because I've been trying to execute that video gag for three days and we failed yesterday. Caleb Martin by merely saying what everyone already knew and has seen for two years and the finals have been on. Jalen Brown can't go to his left. He would just cough up the ball and you'll be dunking on the

other end. The championship was decided that way last year and calumarton said this year yeah our game plan was always to send him to the left the way people reacted to that because it got aggregated i wanted inexplicably to have bill simmons is crying face in a corner and we weren't able to execute that because two days three days we haven't had our normal capacities right now our bill

simmons corners occupied by Jess's history lesson at freedom tower with Tony. I mean she needs to go into that museum and find out a little bit about Cuban culture. It's right next door. We're in the shadow of this thing symbolically trying to change the game. All right top five nuggets ready. I cooked it up you guys ready you are of the opinion that there is such a thing as The people in our audience will say the best nuggets are blank are for the blank. Yeah, I think I think we'll reach consensus here All right, let's see what you got number five Wendy's spicy chicken nuggets I like it so good right well We've talked before about the Wendy's value menu is as good a bargain as there is

in fast food. Yeah. Number four, Vachon Leonard. Good answer. That's a good answer. Yeah, good answer. Yeah, great with your answer. Yeah.

Leonard. Probably if we go look at the percentages, a terrible three point shooter. Yeah, back to the day, but I thought you were struck. I mean, I couldn't believe that. Dr. Jack, I couldn't believe the way that guy was shooting it. Number three, Popeyes. Okay. Yeah.

Like the nuggets are the strips. The nuggets. So my, they're not the strips. I'm like, nuggets. Yeah, when I talk about it. Number two, the suddenly woke chick filet. Wow. It's the oil.

I didn't even know Popeyes had nuggets. Yeah, yeah, that's a white guys. Yeah, I mean, but Papa, if you're ordering the nuggets at Papa's, you're the one who is the fastest. No, you do the spicy chicken sandwich, but you should know that their chicken is going to be, anything that is theirs that is fried chicken is going to be on the top five of anything. And number one, I feel like we can find real consensus on this one. Birdman. Yep. Yep.

Yeah. Good answer. Yeah. Good. And you continue to disrespect Carmelo Hentany for two weeks running now. Chat GPT says Carmelo Hentany is the most overrated basketball player of all time.

Oh, wow. I want to miss it. Just telling you, real computers know. You went to artificial intelligence to find out whether you had actually had a top 10 of like most overrated basketball players and he was number one. A main is not here. A mean was trying to cop a Vegas trip from David Samson last week. Did he go to the finals or did he go to Vegas because a mean supposed to be here this week, but he's gonna be covering the finals from the finals for the

Sean Leonard 38% from three about that Why did he hear the neon green light? Oh my god He'd be all of fame right now If they just let him and I say also were the beginning of like he'd culture and finding these guys at an cold nuggets If you will shop 40% from three for the heat that's unbelievable Leonard 5 years Leonard Leonard Leonard Don't live a tart three for the heat. That's unbelievable. LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! LADDER! L rounds. Rah, rah, rah. This is the Don Limitahtar Show with the Stugats.

Draft King Sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the NBA has a limited time offer for new customers. Use code Dan when you sign up on the Draft King Sportsbook app. I do like what's happening around here and I don't like what's happening around here. David Sampson is cleaning up some stuff financially around here because we were very fat and inefficient on how to run a business, but he is getting smaller and smaller windows to work around here.

He keeps getting bumped because Mike Ryan wants to be Panthers heat all the time. And this has been a popular segment. I've loved doing the hour with David Samson. I enjoyed its easy content. Nothing personal is an hour of just him and it's great information. Better than you're getting around here.

I can assure you, especially on the business stuff, which he's super smart on. And we've been failing him, but I had to, I got into a wrestling match. I'm not even kidding, Samson, like wrestling an alligator. Hey, Samson's got to be on tomorrow. I want to talk to him about some things. And Mike Ryan's like, Dan, it was a furnace blast of Samson two weeks ago and we're still trying to beg the audience back. It's been so many weeks since I was there

every day. It doesn't make me want to come back down to your studio, but that said here's what exactly happened Mike texted I initiate every Wednesday 9 a.m. Tomorrow assuming the answer is yes, and recently it's been yes, and then all the sudden no, but then this week it was no, but then eight minutes later, what about 940, which means that it's 112 minute and 32nd segment, what am I gonna say? I'm loyal, so I said fine, and now you're filling in the blanks that you were wrestling the alligator. I don't quite understand it, given that at 4am your text to me for topics, I give you an hour's worth of topics that we can discuss,

and not even the movie review on top of that, and yet it's not good enough. It's just strange to me damn Dan would you like to tell David what happened in those eight minutes? Yeah, I mean Mike Ryan's like no Samson And I'm like am I do I run the company or not like I want Samson like do I yes or no? I might had to pull that card for you to show up today. So welcome Check out his stuff at nothing personal, follow him on Twitter, at David P. Samson, David absolutely delighted to have you here. What's going on in the world of sports business? There are a number of things and I want to get to them with him.

Samson, I'm sorry. We've onboarded you poorly again. No, whatever. Just Mike's attitude now. I'm so bizarre. Like he's hanging out with Adnan. Mike, I was trying to figure out a way for you to get what you want in terms of the Panthers and the heat. I was involved in meetings trying to make it so Metal Arc can have its best foot forward

with you having a choice to figure out what's the best way to get the best content given this full moon scenario in Miami sports. And the way you react is, though, I'm not pulling for you. It just shows that I'm not doing a good enough PR job with you behind the scenes, because you're unresponsive, non-responsive when I reach out to you. Dave, I involved in the Stanley Cup final situation.

This is all Roy cares about. Credential media member Roy just wants to go with metal-lark expense account to just drink at the Stanley Cup final in Vegas. For those listening along, Roy contractually has you to go with metal-lark expense account to just drink at the Stanley Cup Final in Vegas. For those listening along, Roy contractually has you introducing him that way. Quiddential media member Roy Bell and me.

That's right. And all he wants is an expense account in Vegas and everybody wants one. That's why I mean, it's trying to decide between the NBA finals and the Stanley Cup final. I just wanted discretionary fun for Vegas to have you guys just trust me. Just trust me. Just give me a budget.

I must tell you that there was zero trust in the meeting that took place yesterday, that there will be any content that would come out of sending anybody that the juice would be worth zero squeeze. And I said to not have Roy at the Stanley Cup finals. Why even have Roy on the show and build up the whole bit with his relationship with hockey. If he's not going to go to the Stanley Cup finals, it literally makes no sense. Mike with his entire heat situation, of course, he's got to be where the heat are or where the Panthers are.

And I'm going person by person trying to explain why it makes sense. And it was a little bit like farting in the wind, but I got no follow up, by the way. So I don't know if anyone's going anywhere, but I can only tell you that I allocated more of my time than I would have liked yesterday, trying to get you guys to be on site for these events. So my knees get back with him immediately. Uh, thank you. I run the company. As you can tell, he wouldn't even be here today, say giving away company secrets. I'm not kidding about any of this mike and i as if i don't have enough going on

mike and i are arguing about whether david samson deserved twelve minutes on this show as he's trying to do things for the company the company can't get a shit together the juice that work would be worth the squeeze though is the one that uh... roi would be drinking while he was in Vegas that is the juice because it juice, because it's the only reason you wanna go. Bloody Mary makes it. I don't know.

We've got any content other than Roy at the Mandela Bay bar. That's actually a funny one. Yeah. But we're sending Roy in a place where he can't even give a motion. Like we wanna document his emotion, but he'll be in the press box having to bottle it all up. No, no, no. No, we need Roy with a drink on that shitty, shitty gondola at the Belagio going through

a fake Venice. Hey, wait, that's the Venetian Dan, the gondola's at the Venetian. That's a fun. That is a fun. You can send me and I can guarantee you there's plenty of emotion at the crab stable at TI. David, let's get to some of this stuff going on. You haven't lived until you've had a frozen drink

out of a Eiffel Tower-shaped glass. I can't wait. Put her on the pole, have you lived until you've had a frozen drink out of the Eiffel Tower? You haven't lived until you've had a hot table at the New York, New York. I'll be there. Oh, by the way, happy June.

You guys make it so difficult to get business done. I've never seen anything like it. It's amazing. You've put together. It's amazing. It's amazing. It's frightened me. And I can't believe that we don't have time for you. But regardless, let's get to a couple of the business things that I know you're going to be interesting on. First and foremost, why do you think Aaron Gordon has historically been a matchup problem for Jimmy Butler? Yeah. That's so unfair what you just did to him.

That's so unfair. No, I actually am happy to answer that the best way is to get content from location so you can watch the game tonight and see whether or not it's true and then get your reaction to it. What are you talking about? Now what he asked you.

He asked you about Aaron Gordon. Let me ask you in a different way. Do you think in this Stanley Cup final, we are seeing a matchup of the two best two-way centers in barcov and Carlson? And if either of those seems lifted cup, are you willing to crown the Mississippi? This is unfair what you're doing. This is not what we have David on for. It's not, you think that's good content to break down. Do I think William Carlson's two way plays good content?

Yeah, you handle this one Dan. That's not why David's here. He's here to help on business content, business, our business and sports content that isn't X's and O's break down to hot car. Verhagi's experience in a Stanley Cup final will come into play here. That is not what we're doing, although I cannot believe the way my time is being wasted right now. The Padres, ballies, please tell me what's happening there. I don't understand that makes two of us, David. I don't understand what is happening with ballies and running out of money.

And we've talked before about all of these teams exist to be regional television content. It's why right now baseball is just a regional sport selling made for television stuff in its markets. What's happening with valleys and the business of valleys? Mike, you better pay attention to this because this is going to impact the NHL and the NBA as well. This is about a company that has the rights to teams in those three leagues and they are reorganizing under chapter 11 protection. And the net net for our purposes is that you'll be able to watch your games, but the question is when you stream them in market, are you willing to pay a vigorous?

And that is what the teams are hoping that you will pay an extra 20 bucks a month to be able to stream the games on any device you want in your market, which right now you cannot do. And what the RSNs are saying is that we're not going to pay all this money to the teams anymore. We're bankrupt. We're done. Unless you give us your streaming rights. And Rob Manford went into court yesterday and said nope We're keeping our streaming rights. We're gonna package them like the MLS We're gonna do revenue sharing so we can try to Lesson the disparity between the payrolls of the Mets and the Marlins, let's say and

The judge is going to decide how this is all gonna come down But for your purposes you can still see games, but the days of people paying for content that they're not actually engaged with, those days are coming to an end. What is happening with that Minnesota ballpark, the Minnesota Stadium situation? I just, I'm going to sum up what I just finished on nothing personal today live at 8 a.m. I had a very funny segment because it is awesome. The PR person for the Minnesota Vikings went public today saying we just did the best thing ever for the people of Minneapolis and the city and the state of Minnesota. And what they actually did is they came up with a electronic pull tab, McDonald's monopoly gambling lottery game,

and it was so profitable that the state agreed to use the extra profits to pay down the stadium debt early. But where did that money come from? It came from the people who are not going to Vikings game, who can't afford to go to Vikings games. And so it's a total scam. And it's going on. And it was great PR because you say we saved so many hundreds of millions of dollars

in interest, like in Miami, where they're spending billions of dollars on Marlon's Park, which is ridiculous. But in Minnesota, we got the people to pay for it early. But they're not telling you the truth about that. So it was pretty fun. Why are you delighted by the scam? You seem like you wish as a thought of it. You're radiant and buoyant and it's gross.

I am radiant and buoyant that there are still PR people working for teams who are able to convince people in the media that something good just happened and they hide what really happened. And I used to be the hide or and now on nothing personal, I'm the one who actually unveils what's been hidden. So I am so happy that I'm in a different position now than I was for 18 years. I'm happy that I can tell people what's really going on so they get insight into all the ways that they're being screwed

without even being told about it or knowing about it. And I'd rather be doing what I'm doing now than what I was doing then. Hey David, when you watch succession, do you root for the characters to win? I found it to be a tragedy, actually. It's a common thing. It's a common. Yeah, I did not find it to be a guy. I didn't laugh at all. I'm gonna hide. I found the end of succession to be extraordinarily hurtful in the way

that the siblings were exactly as they were told they were by their father all those years. It, you know, there's a lot of people who have a lot of money who are not happy, who do not have self-confidence. And that show brilliantly captured what a family would be like to have a patriarch who is such a sociopath. I'm gonna hold your feet to the flame here. One game for your life, Aiden Hill or Sir Gaper Bosskin. This isn't right what you're doing. Give me your best 30 seconds on the Vegas A situation. What's the most honest truth of what's happening in Oakland and will they be moving to Vegas? There's no deal done yet with Vegas. It's total poppycock. All they're doing is trying to get

Oakland to get back to the table and try to improve that deal done yet with Vegas. It's total poppycock. All they're doing is trying to get Oakland to get back to the table and try to improve that deal as much as possible. Baseball's in a position where they do not want to give up the expansion possibility of Vegas for the relocated A's, but they're really, really getting to the end here. And at the end is when all the threats happen, is it possible they move to Vegas? Yes. Is it done and guaranteed? Absolutely not. There's more chapters. Brian Custer just took the nuggets and five. God damn it, Brian Custer. Who is Brian Custer? I don't know. He's not sure who this is. Who's that guy? Custer?

Sam said we don't have time for a movie review. I don't like what's happened around here any better than you do. Thank you for joining us. i uh... do appreciate you know he's been wait david you have a favorite chicken nugget he's pissed he's pissed now he's pissed again of course he's pissed uh... christ cody the floor is yours though uh... tell us all you know about uh... the verhagie question that mic ryan asked you that kind of thing You