The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: CVS or Walgreens

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

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Welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries. If they're just there, that hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it.

And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar. This episode is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. We welcome in David Sampson. Nothing personal with David Sampson. You catch it on the DraftKings network every single morning, and of course on YouTube and wherever you get podcasts.

And David, we just ran the promo for your show right before we rejoined here. And I have to ask, how many of those ugly ass jackets do you own? Oh, I got a couple of clasps worth, but they're not all ugly. If you have solid ones, you can wear unsolid shirts. If you have sort of fun ones,

then you have to wear the solid shirts. Sometimes my rotation gets screwed up solid shirts. If you have sort of fun ones, then you have to wear the solid shirts. Sometimes my rotation gets screwed up and I wear a fun jacket with a fun shirt and it ends up pissing Coco off. But at the end of the day, you know, the rotation is the rotation. So yeah, I love I follow the internet sales. I get I'm the guy I get those texts or flash sales 70% off click and you look and you keep track, you know, of a blazer that you like. And then you can try to time it when it's on sale, the maximum sale. And that's when I try to buy it. I like figuring that kind of stuff out. It's easy

to keep a graph on it actually. David. So the somber jacket you're going with today, is that cause Ryan Sandberg passed and we're just going for something a little less loud? No, it's just, this was to the left of the closet here in my studio where I am. It was this blazer and this jacket. And then I've been doing shows since seven this morning. And then I'm gonna go and do a sporting class.

So I'll have to do a different outfit. So then I'll go to the next one. I actually don't know which blazer I'll be wearing to do sporting class, but it won't be this one. If you're recording sporting class to air it a different outfit, so then I'll go to the next one. I actually don't know which blazer I'll be wearing to do sporting class, but it won't be this one. If you're recording sporting class to air it a different day, why would it matter if you're wearing that jacket? Because I'm wearing this today. But, is sporting class airing today?

Not that that would even matter. Exactly, it's not airing today, which is why I can't wear the same blazer and shirt. So it doesn't look like he's like three days a week. People are tracking David's outfit Chris, you don't get it. Wait, it's just continuity. How, I have this argument with people at Metal Arco

all the time and I don't quite get it. If you're recording something for a different day, shouldn't you wear, so I'll keep during the course of a week, I'll know what five outfits I have. So if I'm pre-recording something for a Thursday, I'll wear my Thursday outfit for that pre-record. I'd like to believe I'm not the only one who does that. You know Friday's outfit right now?

Yes, I actually happen to. Because there's five days. Well, so then you're wearing Friday's outfit later and then again on Friday. That's exactly correct. I understand the point of continuity, but I don't think that people assume the sporting class is like a live show.

Like we get caught here all the time wearing different outfits because we pre-recorded the day before or whatever. So if you're watching the video, it's like, oh, they changed outfits for a segment. Now they're back to the other outfits later. Like I get that, but sporting class, I don't think people think is a live show.

Well, certainly with its budget, there's plenty of post-production. So maybe I could wear yesterday's clothes tomorrow and no one would know the difference. And I could say, hey, it's been taped in three different ways. God knows that's possible. Billy, you may be right.

I may be able to ignore my entire plan when it comes to PTFO, but certainly for DLS and some of the other shows I do I think I got to stick to it but I think you may have convinced me that I can you know be a little more free of my you know foibles. Yeah I just want to get out of your head a little bit let loose. I have no idea how we managed to make a second segment on Ryan Sandberg. It's weird. Sound even worse. I first one. Can I say, like- I thought I did a nice job, whatever.

In terms of a eulogy. I saw a picture of David, I think it like, someone sent it to me, I think it was like your daughter's wedding or like the day before, like the rehearsal dinner or whatever. Was he wearing a loose jacket? And from what I remember, he was wearing like a loud jacket. Like it was like a lot, and I was like,

man, this guy is trying to steal a shine today. Like this jacket's a lot today. Trying to steal the shine. Yes. For my daughter. Somewhat. It was odd. I was kind of, this is a lot for father of the bride here. You know? I think though, when you're going to,

don't zoom in on that for the YouTube audience. They're zooming in on my gut, which I don't necessarily appreciate. I should have Photoshopped that. Don't worry. The jacket's taking all the attention. Thank God. I love that one. Yeah, so you asked me about Ryan.

It's so weird to have been in Cooperstown, and then all of a sudden Ryan Samberg, we're talking about him. There's 52 living Hall of Famers. If the Otis Saga is the hotel in Cooperstown, and every player has his own wine glass and a case in the Otis saga. And when a Hall of Famer passes away,

they put a new flower every day into the wine glass. And that's how you know who's passed away in the last year. And now it's hard to imagine that, that you will have Ryan Samberg with a flower in his glass. It is too young and I can only hope that people get their prostates checked as uncomfortable as it is too young and I can only hope that people get their prostates checked as uncomfortable as it is. You have to get them checked every year and it's a Fletch moment for sure but you just have to do it. It's just sad.

65 years old, such a great great player, great person. I love talking to him when he was manager of the Phillies. That's when I really got to know him the best. And it's a disappointing thing to happen so close to the Hall of Fame induction. David, do you think that Billy is right and being mad about each rose Marlins joke in Cooperstown? I heard that Billy and and I want to tell you how I engaged with it sitting there in the heat yesterday. Because you hear

your name come out and you're just so overwhelmed with gratitude that your name comes out. And then you hear the Marlins joke and I immediately thought, my God, anything other than that. Because that is, you could just tell that people were gonna think that that was serious, but it wasn't.

We won the World Series in 03, folks. He was in his prime in 03. He knew the Marlins, number one. Number two, he faced us. We played against him. Oh, he was terrible against the Marlins. I then had it checked. He was like 8 for 40 against us.

Yeah, he was bad. We had him dead to rights and believe me, he keeps track of every at bat. So what I then realized is he wanted to let people know what a funny side he has to go with how important his message was during his speech, which I think is one of the most viral and best speeches I've ever heard a Hall of Famer give.

So I had a little PTSD because the Marlins are the butt of people's jokes, though we do have two world championships in our franchise history, and we've been to the playoffs recently, twice since COVID. So all of this talk that the Marlins are such a know, such a failure, I just don't buy. But I think now people realize that, of course, each row was joking.

For the people who missed it, we have the video right now. Let's go ahead and roll it. And to the Miami Marlins, I appreciate David Samson and Mike Hill for coming today. Honestly, when you guys called to offer me a contract for 2015, I have never heard of your team. That's his wife. That's his wife.

They're who they pan to. And that's just, that's just funny. It's funny. Of course he had heard of the team, but I laughed. Is it a surprise that he came to Miami? Did we do a lot of things for him to choose Miami? We did. We gave him a tour of the clubhouse.

We gave him a tour of how he would get to the bar. Wow, a tour of the clubhouse. No, listen. Did you charge him or? Cody, Cody, listen, you have to go through, we had to send him our uniform so he could make sure that he had spikes that were made that would match the uniform.

We had to get certain workout equipment because he had a way that he would prepare for a game, both during spring and the regular season. And so we wanted him very badly. We wanted to make sure he wanted to be with us as a fourth outfielder. We extended his career for three years, which he was appreciative of.

He got 3000 hits as a Marlin. Yeah, Colorado. He loves the Marlins. And that was a great moment for our franchise. So I don't regret at all either having each row. I'm honored to have had him or of that comment. It's just nice to be associated with that level of greatness. David, what was that stretch like when you guys were

preparing for him to get the 3000th hit? Well, as you look there, a nightmare of going to the park every day and eating stadium food every day just for David and his cronies out there to let him do it in Colorado the day before coming home. Go on, David. Don Mattingly, screw him. It happens to not have been Don Mattingly's fault. We put it in the hands of all of us,

and it was me and it was Mike Hill, and it was Don Mattingely and it was Ichiro and the conversation was, hey, we're gonna play you today, but we could hold off and play you Monday, but we really want you to play today. And it was a Sunday and Ichiro's view was, listen, I need you to do what you do.

I'll do what I do. If I'm in the lineup, take four at bats. Thank you. If I'm pinch hitting, thank you. If I'm in the lineup, take four at bats. Thank you. If I'm pinch hitting, thank you. Appreciate the uniform in the locker, but you do your job. And Mattingly said, not withstanding anything, we would be playing him today.

And I said, I would rather him get 3000 hits at home, but I would rather not be looked at as the person who gets in the way of each row getting more at bats or of Don Mattingly and the GM deciding what the best lineup was that particular day. So listen, Billy, I had a flight in Denver. Sounds like it's Don Mattingly's fault from that story. I'm gonna be perfect.

I wasn't in Denver. That is a nice little two hand pretty easy. You're like, you know what? I don't wanna be involved in this. And a little bit the GM, a little bit the GM easy. You're like, you know what? I don't want to be involved in this decision. And a little bit of the GM, a little bit of the GM. Yeah, come on, David. I'm going to say that I'm the one responsible for that decision and I'm glad that he got it.

Buck stops with you. Touch the ball, please. Buck stops with me. So it's my fault for sure, but it's not that it wasn't an inconvenience to me because my plan was to be at the game in Florida, obviously, because that's where I lived. But I had to get my way to Denver because there was no way I was going to miss it.

And knowing that he was going to get four at bats at 29.99, he was going to get that hit. And he came only a few inches away. Did he, the irony of him hitting a homer for 3000, I think that he wanted that, and he came so close to getting it. So I'd like an apology then from you, since it's your fault.

I'd like a public apology from you to all Marlins fans right now, please, and thank you. I'm gonna do better, Billy. I'm gonna do better because I'm feeling such love from all of you guys and how it all works with you, and when I'm not there, and just the way you guys speak about me.

So I'm gonna apologize for everything, not just for the 3000th hit, Billy. I'm apologizing for every trade that didn't work out, for every disappointment. And I am not gonna ask for any love in return for any memories you may have that are good. I'm gonna assume they're all bad. And I'm gonna hopefully put this to rest so

the national audience can move past it because they don't give a flying rat's pituitary gland. But I impacted your life and Mike Ryan's life and I guess Stu's and Amin's and everybody else, so I apologize. What a minch. On behalf of the entire fan base, we do not accept you live with that guilt until the day that you die David Sampson. Wear it. not accept you live until the day that you die. David Sampson. Wear it. Folks, nothing says summer like long days, clutch plays and firing off a few bets on the game.

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Albert Pujols? Albert Pujols is the number one. Will be the number one forever. And I was just with him in Cooperstown and he was there and before the Hall of Famers came to the Saturday night party, by the way, the whole weekend is a look at me, Louis, because you're just around Hall of Famers and you're around, you're sitting there talking

to Albert Pujols and many other players. I had a great conversation with Mike Canton about, and he told me how much he regrets not coming to the Marlins and choosing the Braves. He does not have a ring because he thought the Braves were a better team than the Marlins. And he said, I have lived with that. It's the biggest regret of my career, not signing with Colorado. The biggest regret is not allowing myself to be traded. And he said, David,

if you had only FaceTime to me and told me what you told me now, I would have accepted the trade. I said, Mike, we were on the phone together. There was no FaceTime. I said, dude, please come to the Marlins. And you were like, absolutely not. So now Tim Spooniebarger has a ring and not you. And Mike Hampton's wife who was there was despondent,

as was Mike. But anyway, you're sitting with Albert Pujols and I was reminding him of the story of the Marlins had him signed and the effort with his agent sleeping in his hotel room which I did stocking Pujols and his agent overnight just to have Artie Moreno bid 254 million. And I got to say to Albert

because we were enjoying ourselves in Cooperstown. said Albert were you ever going to sign with the Marlins for the 200 million dollars shopped it all right Albert I know you shopped it thank you I just want to point out that Mike Hampton is mad that you didn't invent FaceTime and then call him with that an invention like hey it's this new thing I can see you while I talk to you if you had done that maybe I would have said yes That but that does lead me David to you said you're hanging out in Cooperstown What is there to do is it just like little side parties beyond the obvious ceremony or like are there bars do? Are there fancy restaurants like diners diners? I feel like it's all yeah it's like a Roy Rogers out there

right. Well it's not a Roy Rogers it's a it's a one street town but it's so cool during induction weekend because there's people everywhere and listen it's better I ate a burger off a grill that was outside a restaurant next to Bitty Shram from League of their own who was signing stuff. The real one? The real Bitty Schramm. I got to meet her and talk about. Which one was she? She, there's no crying in baseball. She was the right fielder.

Okay. I would appreciate it. Yo, why's that funny? I mean, I'm supposed to know all their names? She was the one with her kid there? Yeah, Stillwell. And I was with Mike Hill and she said, by the way, Stillwell is now bigger than you looking at Mike Hill

and Mike Hill's a big guy. And I guess you could see it if you scouted, if you're a good scout, you look at Stillwell and say, oh, I can see him as a big guy now with his own kids. I would appreciate it if by next year you would work on hitting the cutoff man. That's a great movie. And she was there doing a signing.

And so I bought a picture and had her sign it. And we took a photo, Curtis pride, the first and only deaf player in big league baseball was there. Mike Tyson was there signing stuff. And then of course you have all the players. Why not? You're going to tell them no. You said why?

I said why? Are you going to be the one to say, hey Mike, you can't come and sign autographs here. But Mike Tice is like, hey, I'm going to Cooper Sound? Yeah. All right. Can I introduce you to a concept called revenue? Revenue is when you put up a shingle

and you say, I will be signing from 12.45 to two o'clock and people line up 200 deep to buy something that you're selling because you'll sign only what's bought at the table and everyone buy stuff and then you sign it but like that's a common thing that there will be people outside of baseball who are doing that yes okay all right very much so you're going now this year was the first year without Pete Rose holding up a shingle and buying stuff and selling stuff and signing stuff. Obviously, hard to sign from above or below

or wherever he, wherever he is. Whoa, whoa. The speculation begins. Where did Pete Rose, Juju, put it on the poll. Oh, don't. Don't. David, two years ago, Leo Messi made his debut for Inter Miami against Cruze Azul

in what was a newly formulated tournament by MLS and Liga Mechis called the League's Cup. For the League's Cup. And Don Garber, last week during MLS All-Star, finally provided insight into what MLS's streaming numbers are. It's been a closely guarded secret, and they were bad. The average audience for MLS games is pretty piss poor especially compared to

where they were. This was supposed to grow the league not just in revenue but the hope was that they would grow audience and it hasn't done that despite it being lumped in with cell phone carriers and cable carriers. What did you make of those numbers? Why if Don Garber kept it secret for so long, would he finally use that opportunity to reveal that? Because all it brought was shame and embarrassment. Well, I don't think it brought shame and embarrassment. I think 120,000 in unique viewers

is less than what they would have hoped. I think the number, the amount of revenue that Apple got was less, therefore the amount of revenue Messi got was less. We just had Tom Bogard on Nothing Personal Today and talked for 25 minutes about MLS and Inter Miami and Messi and a lot of what sort of, what could have gone wrong, what could have gone better.

And I guess I'll sum it up and tell you what we didn't get to talk about today, so I'll mention it now, is that Messi's in a position where as an equity holder, you need to be doing things in order to increase the value of your underlying asset. And when you don't show up to the All-Star game, when you are not selling the game because you're so satisfied with your lot in life,

you can't then complain when your upside actually gets decreased. And the biggest mistake MLS made was by getting into bed with Messi thinking that he would care enough to want to carry them into a different revenue sort of stadium. And he just hasn't done it. And it is what it is, onto the next.

They'll be the next Messi, they'll be the next great player and MLS one day will try to continue to be one of the top four leagues in North America. It's just not this day. What do you make of the upholding the rule to suspend him and Jordi Alba? Like, was that a mistake you think? Absolutely not.

Did you see Jorge Mas's response to it? On Draconian, I like when people use that word. It was pretty crazy. Well, listen, Jorge Mas is Jorge Mas, and I love the guy, the underbitter with the Marlins, but great guy. The fact is that he's trying to stir it and make sure that Messi knows that he's got Messi's back

because that that will have an impact in Messi and re-signing and playing in the new Mel-Reiss Stadium. However, why couldn't Messi have just gotten on the plane to Austin? Shake some hands, kiss some babies, play like three to five minutes and then get the standing ovation. Everybody's happy. You're not suspended. Tom, your friend, said, oh, it was too much,

too many games, too tiring. He played 90 minutes for this number of games over this number of days. And I said, that's a bunch of horse hockey. Get on the private plane and just make the appearance. And once he didn't do that, you got to suspend it. And then Garber pretending, I'm so sorry to have done that. Did you see that, Mike?

He said, you know, it's so- He should have been. No,, you know, it's so No, it's little messy and you make really oh no, no Rules Michael wasn't a Club World Cup when Leo Messi Signed with enter Miami and Leo Messi and enter Miami were the only bright spot for MLS in that Club World Cup Those were extra extra fixtures Leo Messi performed admirably in those games and carried the banner for MLS. And now Leo Messi's got to turn around and do this other new contrived tournament that they've made in the middle of the season that's more games for an aging

player that's got his eyes on a real World Cup coming up this summer. I think if there was ever an opportunity for Messi to be like, guys, I've been actually a good partner. I've done all the other MLS All-Star games. I just was the only success story that you had from this Club World Cup. Maybe don't make me hop on a plane to Austin when I got FC Cincinnati because I got more congested games because I had the nerve and the gall to make it to the knockout rounds. I think MLS should have applied proper perspective on this. You can interpret the rules and say, yes, understandably, if you decide to play hooky on the All-Star game, you get suspended.

But this is an extraordinary circumstance with you guys making it to the Club World Cup, something that now is new and happens every four years, and you're the only team that did anything worth a note there. I think it's kind of BS and Inder Miami was right to actually invoke Messi and his future in MLS because this is how this is where the commissioner earns his money and he interprets rules and just because FC Colorado or whatever has a freaking issue with it doesn't mean you you you do what's in the worst interest of your league and piss off Leo Messi. Horse hooking. You know what happens Mike when you start applying rules differently to different

people you get anarchy mayhem and as you know that with inner Miami that's the reputation they they they do that with inner Miami and the club world cup wasn't around when they invented this rule. But all that Messi had to do was go to Garber and go to MLS sooner and work out a deal so they could have announced something together. Instead, the decision was communicated very, very late. We're already there's sponsors flying to town already. There's meet and greets planned.

It's just got to be smarter about timing. If you really want to cut the deal you're talking about, you're aware of the Club World Cup months ago. Give me a break. Well, they got to be smarter about timing if you really want to cut the deal you're talking about you're aware of the Club World Cup months ago give me a break well they're smarter about timing they also invented leagues Cup before they after they came up with this also a rule and he's like man I got more congestion in my fixtures I gotta make up all the games that I missed because of Club World Cup and now our league is on pause for a month and then we're gonna have fixture after fixture after fixture to make up those games I understand where Inter Miami and Messi is coming from

and now I certainly understand the argument, hey hop on a plane with Jordi Alba and run around for three minutes. And his whole deal is, I don't wanna hop on a plane. I was the only thing that you had going for your league. You need me. Boo hoo. It's not difficult to hop on a private plane

and just avoid this whole situation. If you don't want to do that, then that's fine. All you had to do is give them more notice, which they didn't do that either. So they had several paths to do and they chose the one path that led to suspension. And it was just so ridiculous to me to watch and listen to Jorge Mas defend Messi,

as though somehow this was trying to threaten Garber by the way, he's now not going to sign with your league because you suspended him for this game. It's so ridiculous. Mike, you know what I would have respected if he hit him with the Allen Iverson. What's the fine? Guess what? Here's a blank check.

Fill it out. I'll take it. Suspend me. I'll take it. But like it's one thing to say, hey, this is why I'm skipping it, but to cry about, why am I being suspended? Hey man, you a grown man, you know what the consequences were? I don't think he cried about it.

I think he took it, and the statement from ownership was pretty strong. I think from Leo Messi's perspective, too, is like, we have a what in the middle of what? An All-Star game? What is, like, iShow Speed is doing a skills competition? Was that not on the schedule? No, they knew!

That's my whole point. Look, Alan Iverson, the story I'm talking about was rookie transition program. When you get drafted in the NBA, all the rookies have to go to rookie transition program, and Alan Iverson didn't go, and he said, and they said, well, what's the punishment? He says, well, they fine you, and then you have to come back next year and do it next year. And he said, and they said, well, what's the punishment? He says, well, they find you and then you have to come back

next year and do it next year. So he gave them a blank check and said, fill it out when my career's over. I understand MLS. Just take the L. I understand MLS All-Star is calendared and you know when it is on the schedule. What is not calendared is your team making it

rather unexpectedly, by the way, to the knockout phase of the club World Cup. And I think that in that event the league should alter it. I mean we're talking about an exhibition ultimately. Don Lebatard. World Rawr 3. Stugats. We're gonna get that off the ground. World Rawr 3 colon our group chat has a pretty good feeling about this one. This is the Dunn-Levatar Show with the StuGuts. David, I want to talk to you about Bryce Harper and Rob Manfred getting into a shouting match in the clubhouse. Bryce Harper allegedly, by Rob Manfred, if you were going to talk about salary cap.

Better not mention salary cap. Get the F out of our clubhouse. And how did you process that news, David? Oh, that's victory for the owners. Anytime you can get a Boris fueled tantrum, you know that you're onto something. Remember the last CBA, please, when it was voted on. All the Boris guys on the executive council

voted against ratifying the CBA and all the regular team reps who represent the regular guys who Boris wouldn't represent because they're not the superstars, they all voted for the CBA. You want Boris and his guys because Harper's a Boris guy.

Harper was speaking for Boris. Boris trying to hang on to power, which he's completely lost because the executive council's changed and he's looked at as wholly irrelevant by his own union. Forget by MLB, who barely will give him the time of day. The fact is when you hear a Boris guy challenge Rob, Rob, he's gonna, not only is he gonna stand his ground,

but the other owner is gonna look at Rob and say, step one to getting exactly what we want in this next agreement, because we've got splinters, and we're gonna put our fingers into the splinters and spread them like some sort of spelunker. And we will create such a divide that we will then be able to make them think we were only after the salary cap.

And then they'll realize that we were after totally different things, all of which we got. David, what would be the eventual carrot that the rank and file would take in exchange for a salary cap? Oh, I don't think there is a carrot, a stick. I don't think that there is a bunch of carrots. I don't think the players, even if you shut the game down for a year,

I don't think the players would agree to a salary cap. But what I do think is if the owners pretend they want the salary cap badly enough, then they will be able to extract other victories from the players. Maybe the minimum doesn't go up as much. Maybe you've got a situation with appearances or scheduling or some pension or risk of benefit issues, things that are real meaningful money, not quality of the stake in the clubhouse, but things that matter where the players would say, Oh, no salary cap. Okay, thank you.

We'll give in on A through Z. So I think that from a strategy standpoint, what baseball's doing makes perfect sense, and Bryce Harper played right into it, yelling at Rob face to face, nose to nose. I only wish I had been there. What movie are we reviewing today, David? I mean, did you watch the Billy Joel documentary?

I did not, but Mike Ryan did. He was telling us about it yesterday. I've seen the first half, the first part. It's a two part series and I really enjoy it so far. Yeah, it's two and a half hours, both parts. Part two dropped on July 25th. Part two is the Christie Brinkley era plus wife three plus wife four.

So wife one was part one and And it's called, And So It Goes, which happens to be my favorite Billy Joel song of all time. And I learned so much about him. All of his songs are autobiographical, how much pain he was in, and the things that he wrote about. You guys write funny songs, and Jeremy and all of you.

Man, Billy Joel has you beaten. He's writing songs about his wife, who then becomes his ex-wife and about his manager. He's writing not just Uptown Girl about Christie Brinkley. How about Stiletto about Elizabeth Weber, his wife and manager? Yikes. How about Vienna about his father

and the complicated relationship he had? I immediately called my son After watching the documentary thinking that I could do the compare game like hey, I'm not this guy But that didn't work. So where does it I I love rock documentaries? I think the history of the Eagles is the best one of all time I love Tom Petty's running down a dream I'm halfway through this one and it has me feeling like it has a shot to enter that pantheon. Does it fall apart in the second part? He is a pretty private dude so all of this was illuminating. I was a fan of Billy Joel's music. This documentary is taking

it to another level but I didn't really know much outside of what made headlines and I'm fascinated by the guy. And I didn't even remember some of the accidents he had. I didn't know anything about sort of the provenance of all of his songs. And I didn't realize how the Christie Brinkley relationship, how it started, how it ended, why it ended. Because isn't that one of those times that you say, Oh my God, if I were married to a supermodel, how could you be unhappy married to a supermodel?

That's insane. God, if I were married to a supermodel, how could you be unhappy married to a supermodel? That's insane. And then you realize that everybody, you know, squats to pee. And so people are generally the same. And going through it all, it is more tragic than you realize, especially because they don't end it with the truth of what is today, which is he's sick and that he's not touring. He canceled all of his tour dates and we don't know if he'll ever play again. They don't even mention it.

It's not mentioned. It must have been in the can before this happened. It's not even a post script. Yeah, that's disappointing because that would have put his entire career in perspective with a bow at the end of it, not even like an epilogue. I expected some sort of something. You know how they do writing at the end of a movie? Like now, 20 years later,

there are still people trying to make moose eggs. No, there's nothing like that. The show is called Nothing Personal with David Sampson. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Happy birthday, Stu. Is this Stu Godson's birthday today? Oh, wow. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Happy birthday, Stu. Is this Stu Goss' birthday today? Oh, wow.

Oh, it is. Happy birthday to him! I don't care! Good luck! Chris, yesterday we were having a very spirited conversation about CVS's and Walgreens. And you thought that we couldn't tell the difference between a CVS and a Walgreens and you thought that we couldn't tell the difference between the CVS and a Walgreens

So you took it upon yourself after the show To visit a local CVS and a local Walgreens to take pictures guys. We're gonna play a new game. So it's called CVS or Walgreens Ryan Clark said CVS that's clearly a CVS. Now this is a visual game. We will try our best to describe it for the podcast audience. But check us out on YouTube, because we're doing a lot of fun things, like CVS or Walgreens.

I just want to be clear for your process for this. You just went to a bunch of different Walgreens and CVS yesterday with your afternoon. With my daughter. I look like a private investigator. I got a couple weird looks from employees being like, why is this guy just snapping photos? But here we go, photo number one.

Let's see it. Let's hit it. OK, so we're looking kind of upward towards the ceiling. It's a rack, and it's got, what is that, lawn chairs on top? There's lawn chairs up top. Yeah, it's a CVS. Oh, I think it's Walgreens. That's a CVS. There's carpet. That's a CVS.

It's carpet and also the tags. CVS has the yellow tags. And also the white one with the red. You're gonna find yellow tags in all the stuff. If that's someone out there tried to do the yellow tag thing, they all have yellow tags. But what's the guess here? I hear a lot of CVS is Walgreens. And the prevailing theory is carpet, right? The carpet's doing it for us. I see what you guys are doing. That is a CVS.

Yeah! That's a relief. I will tell you, don't be too tricked by the carpets here, because there's a little hit on the front end. All right, let's see picture number two. OK, these are balloons. Not showing you the floor this time. That's impossible.

Well, hold on, it's not impossible. There are some contexts where balloons are inflated, so they're all the way stuck to the ceiling. They're in a little cage, which I find... That's a Walgreens trademark, is the balloons that fly up into the ceiling. For those who are just listening to the podcast, it's a photo of the ceiling with ceiling tiles and its balloons inside a little balloon corral. The balloon cage. But there's no floor, there's no shelving. We can kind of see the end caps.

We can see an end cap. What I learned doing this, there's a lot of just things that say CVS and Walgreens. A lot of branding. It's hard to find photos that don't say it. I'm with you. This is difficult and this is a very difficult photo, but I'm gonna go Walgreens.

I'm gonna go Walgreens as well. I'm gonna go Walgreens. I'm gonna go Walgreens as well. I'm gonna go Walgreens. It is a Walgreens. Yeah, two for two. I know my pharmacies. This is going all right so far. We got a couple more here. Let's go to the next one.

All right, here we have a cereal aisle. Hold on, let me get up and look at this. It looks like to the right, there's a cooler. I see yellow tags. I'm gonna go Walgreens here. Oh, look at him, he's gotten up. He's looking at, he's got, he's really close to the right, there's a cooler. I see yellow tags. I'm gonna go Walgreens here. Oh look at him, he's gotten up, he's looking at, he's really close to the monitor. He's eyeballing it.

All right. That's a Walgreens, baby. People are, that's a CVS. I'm going Walgreens. That's a Walgreens. That's a CVS. We have the first time that we don't have consensus. Lots of cereal.

That is. It's a Walgreens. A CVS. Oh no way! It's also carpeting at the end of that floor. Damn it, Billy. I was just like, I literally did this one because I'm like, look, this doesn't have carpet.

I'm going to trick them with this one. So I tricked everyone, but Billy, let's move on to the next one. Stop looking at the floor. Two for three. That's a door. That's a wall. That's a photo of a door.

It's a door, but that's a wall. Local high school, like like Western like Wildcat like merch on the left right there there's also Western high level shirts it's like an umbrella stand and we can see some maylocks and some other things on the doorways to the back of the store it's an employee only door yes this is definitely a Walgreens that is a walk yeah all right I got one more here that I think might trick you all right let's do the last photo here. Here it is.

Remember, don't get tricked by the floor. The floor are playing mind games here. This is like a target. It's the makeup section of the store. They all have them. Is this a Navarro? Is that the Walgreens logo right there? So it's a makeup section,

and it's like kind of down the aisle, but above it you can see something hanging. It says L'Oreal. Okay. Yeah. Alright, no, not above that. I didn something hanged. It says L'Oreal. Okay. Yeah. All right. No, not above that. I didn't see that part. Don't look at that. All right. Yes. Okay, it's a Walgreens. Is that a Walgreens logo? There's yellow tags to a meme. Yeah, yellow tags. It's a Walgreens. Walgreens. Zaz has said Walgreens. I'll say CBS. It's a Walgreens! Zaza said Walgreens are CBS

One with the weird floor yeah you did you know now I think about it that floor while not carpet is not What you find in the Walgreens Walgreens has that that? That I don't like middle school floor. Yes, it's just continuous. There's no tiles in that right Let's pull back the curtain before the last one he turned his mic off real quick And he's like he said someone please dear God say CBS In his I couldn't have everyone guess in his best Jeb Bush, please clap voice You guys can clap now we should should play that. Because earlier we played this, the Dion Sanders, please clap. And apparently Jeb Bush set the subs as because I didn't know. When Dion told everyone they could clap after he's cancer free, it reminded

me of the very end of Jeb Bush's political career. But send a signal that we're prepared to act in the national security interests of this country to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world. Please clap. It's unbelievable. I can't get enough of that clip. It's so good. Every time I come across it, it's so good. It's the way he tilts his head at guys. What are you doing? He's like so pathetic. Please clap. It's really funny what you used to head at a guy's what are you doing? He's like so pathetic Please clap. It's really funny what you sue and political careers, right?

That's crazy. This guy fumbled the bag big-time right your dad Dude he had no answer. Yeah, no answer for the the type of duty He was facing like a Southpaw your dad was a president your brother was the president, and you're bilingual, and you're the governor of Florida. Like, come on, man. He finally got his at bat, and then he was against a submarine pitcher. He's like, whoa, I've never hit against one of these. The ball's coming from where? Police.

We're not doing shame anymore? You can clap now.