The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The 12-To-7 Hang Up Ratio (feat. David Samson)

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

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Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard 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.

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And especially if you're somebody who has cold feet issues, this will help you with those. We have pitch clock today on the show. in the second hour. Also a live rendition of pitch clock today at 3 p.m. The Marlins do not open until tomorrow, but most of baseball is playing today. We're going to bring in David Samson in a second. But I just want to ask the group from the basketball last night, because I didn't even mention that the Celtics beat OKC, and it's the first time OKC is lost in a month. You had Gobert blocking KD one-on-one in the clutch. you had KD missing a free throw.

You had Scott Foster ejecting Nas Reid from mumbling. Stop cheating, Scott. What was the most interesting thing from last night if you can only pick one basketball thing? I mean, the Timberwolf's thing has never happened before where a team gets down 10 plus in overtime and then wins the game. You said a lot of great things. The one thing you did miss, Stefan Castle,

absolutely posterizing, buddy, getting on a knee and then looking at him afterwards was incredible too. The Sixers beat the Bulls last night, 157 to 137. Each team had a quarter, each team had a quarter where they scored over 50 points in the quarter and the NBA want to add two teams. Hawks had a 20 point lead to the Pistons, blew it, and then beat them in overtime. They're 15 and two since he also started breaking. Nobody can beat the Hawks. And Joel M. B. was great in that first quarter. He just totally changes them. Obviously, just never played. He's really good when he plays.

The problem is he's played 91 games. Like we said in the stat the other day, Yokic has had 88 triple doubles. I played the Bulls. Okay, but still, I mean, it's professional basketball. He's out there running around. That's what you want to see. Is it professional? Tony's friend is going to join us in studio here at some point before the end of the show.

That's all I'm going to say about that. David Sampson joins us now. Nothing personal is the name of the show. I'm sure he has a lot of opinions on the baseball of last night. But I'd actually like to start with your movie review. today instead of starting with baseball. We will get to that in a second. What are you reviewing for us today? I'm reviewing something that was mentioned that I didn't understand what Mike Ryan was saying when it came up last week. So I wanted to watch it. It's called Inside the Manosphere, a documentary

by Lewis Thoreau. And I will admit to you all, I had never heard of the Manosphere. I didn't know what I was watching. And all of a sudden it started unveiling itself like some sort of onion being peeled, I was not aware of the misogyny, the anti-Semitism, the blatant fraud that is being perpetuated upon the general public of those incels who are trying to be something they will never be, which roughly sounds like a lot of people who follow the president, might I add, because you're never going to be that rich. But I am shocked not that Miami was such a central part of this. all of those scammers, all of those Manosphere guys are all right like next door to where you are. And it just, it blew my mind.

And I wanted to talk. I didn't review it on nothing personal, even though Coco wanted me to. I wanted to save it to talk to a group about because I've never felt more old. I've never felt more out of touch or more scared than watching that documentary on Netflix called Inside the Manosphere. I did see it and not unlike you, the thing that I felt most strongly watching that is, ah, that's all I missed about how Trump got elected by lonely, angry young men who feel like they've been left behind and are looking to clowns to figure out how it is to become a man because those people are saying something that no one else is saying,

because, oh, how brave to be anti-Semitic! Oh, how brave to be anti-woman. There's a whole region of the internet, Dave, that helped get Trump elected because of the loneliness and the angriness and the anger that you will find among young men. What I really enjoyed is one of the guys whose name, I think his name is H.S.

And he's a good-looking. He may be Australian. And he was asked, are you anti-Semitic? He said, yes. Are you a misogynist? Yes. Are you actually no? But I'll take your money.

It's all about them enriching themselves. Does that sound familiar to anyone? It is all about these guys. It's all a fraud. You're not going to make money. You're not going to get laid by hot people, women or men. You're not going to get any of the life. The Lamborghini, the nice cars, the followers.

You're not going to get any of it. and they interviewed a bunch of kids who wanted to be these men and thought they could. And I was so saddened by that. There were two of them on Miami Beach. They moved to Miami to find America. Maybe it's, and no, I'm not an immigrant,

so I can't relate to it, but it felt like a promising America that when you get here, you're like, wait a minute, I have no shot at all. Like I'm homeless, but man, I'm going to follow this hate. hateful guy, and that'll help me get rich. Meanwhile, nothing doing.

You stay poor. H.S. is from England, not from Australia. And he was a fugitive in the movie. This documentarian Thoreau makes good documentaries, and this one will make you think. But, David, we've aged out is what's happened there. The thing that was shocking about that movie to me was just sort of like, oh, I had no idea that there was an alternate reality here where people are filing under truth-telling amid cancel culture, oh, I'll be the hateful one, and that there's bravery in that worth following.

Well, there's money in that worth following. And, Dan, you say we've aged out. Does that mean everyone else in the room? You know, Mike Ryan, I feel like you've got your finger on so many different pulses. To you, the Manusphere in Miami was something you just knew existed and stayed away from? Yes. I'm not the key demo, although I do hate my dad. Well, just kidding, I love him. He's a good guy. It's just for a fact. Also, my dad is younger than Aaron Judge. That would almost be impossible. We were shocked to learn that

Aaron Judge is a month from his 34th birthday. We did not know that here as a show. Yeah, well, Jeremy did because when he was signed to that huge extension by the Yankees, it was clear the number of years that we're going to be the post 35 years. You don't look at 33 or 34. He'll play 34. When you turn an age prior to the All-Star break, what you say within the game is he'll play at that number for that season. So this is Aaron Judge's 34 season. So don't count this year. He'll be okay, Mike. Next year, okay. But then it's after that. When you're playing 36, without steroids, it's going to be a precipitous decline. Yeah, I'm not surprised that the guys that follow baseball know his age. What's shocking is, like, athletes that are considered, like, damaged goods

are younger than him. Like, Jarvis Landry's been out of the NFL for what feels like five years, and he's younger than Aaron Judge. Anthony Davis is, like, a full year younger than Aaron Judge. This is wild. Well, Anthony Davis has been injury prone since he was way younger than some of the youngest guys in the league. So that's, he's been, his body has been aging way faster than his actual years. Pooleholz was definitely older than that. were you? David, I'm sorry. Poole's was definitely older than that when you guys tried to sign him, right? No. He was not 35 years old. When we were offering him a 10-year deal. I'm going to say he was 32. We were going to pay him until 42, maybe 31 to play 32. But it's easy math. I mean,

it's not easy math with Albert. I don't know the answer to that. But in theory, we believe that he was not 35. Of course. Let's play the sound for David Samson of Barry bonds talking on the broadcast last night. David, do you believe this story about George Steinbrenner? The Yankees story? George isn't here anymore, so I can tell the truth. Well, I would have been the Yankees,

but Steinbrenner got on the phone and it called us and they told me Barry, we're going to give you the money the highest paid player at that time. But you have to sign the contract by 2 o'clock this afternoon and I said, excuse me, and I just hung the phone on. Wow. Wow.

And I went to go get lunch and my, you know, Dennis Gilbert, my agent, and they were like, what, do you know what you just did? I'm like, did you know what he just said? I just said, forget it. Now, I went to go. By the time I walked down the street to go get lunch, I said, let me just think about this. The Giants called me and I said, I'm going home. David, do you believe that story?

It's really a made-for-television story. There's some bits of truth to it, so I'm going to say it's true. How do you sound the same? How do you sound the same holding your nose? It's remarkable. That's unbelievable. to your actual voice. Hell yeah.

Yeah, it's trueish, but you have to go back in context. So this is, my guess is you're talking about 1992, somewhere in that range, 92, 93, I think. And so you have to go back to where the Yankees were back then. You have to go back to Dennis Gilbert, and you have Dennis Gilbert, who's a great guy, a great agent, you know, in the insurance business. It's just a wonderful guy. You'll see him in the front row at Dodger Games, about six seats to the right of Mary Hart.

And back then, George Stryner. Just useless. Just useless. What are you talking about? Just useless. Not that he's a good guy and that you like him, but that he's six seats from Mary Hart. Tony, you know Mary Hart? Who the hell is that? It's not useful information.

Why did you offer it? Because I want people to understand this is not a schlepper. Barry Bonds' agent, Dennis Gilbert, who would be involved in the negotiation for George Strymner to go around. to the player back in 1992 and give a 2 o'clock deadline. I just don't find that to be realistic. You'd have to have the contract.

It'd have to be approved by the union. It'd have to be approved by the commissioner's office. So I just... Hmm. It was the Mary Hart thing. Well, just to close his point. Did you guys get that? Barry Bonds' agent ended up being rich.

That's the point of the story. Six seats away to the right. To Mary Hart, yes. That is correct. You asked earlier, Chris, and I'm afraid to go back to him with that connection. Mary Hart also younger than Aaron Judge. I'm afraid to go to the connection. Sanky back.

Okay. Jack. How often have you had a hang-up in negotiations? I miss the landline because the cell phone makes the hang-up harder. What just happened technologically makes it so that. sometimes you don't know if someone's hung up on you or if it's just a bad connection. It's the only reason to miss the landline that you could just throw it down and there was no confusion about whether someone hung up on you or not.

How often do you use the hang up or have used the hang up in negotiations, David? The score for me and I'd have to go back to get exact, but I think it's around 12-7. I believe I've hung up on someone 12 times and been hung up on seven times. I used to keep copious track of that. And the reason I did is that within a negotiation, the hangups are critical. You have to understand that when you're negotiating, that is a great tool to pull. And you're right, landline good, cell phone, fine. You can go with, oh, I lost service or oh, I didn't hear anything you said.

And hangups different than putting the phone down. And you know that's how we dealt with Boris. You just put the phone down and let him talk to air. And that's a strategy as well. But I love the hang up because you can do it hard. You can do it in the middle of a point and then people don't ever get back to their exact point because they were making it up to begin with or they lose track of what they were trying to get from you. And so I absolutely agree with the hang up.

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Hey, Roy, buddy. Yo. You know that energy shift when the game gets good, and everybody, altogether, in unison, knows to stand up on their feet? Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at many big-time sporting events.

You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo. Oh, delicious. It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Quervo, man, it's at high-five a random stranger effect. That's right. The game is popping.

You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo. effect. Keep it. Quervo. Don Lebatard. There's sunglasses and boxes today. Bus lives all the same.

Stugats. It's the final. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Do you have a memorable one above all others? And would you guys actually walk out of the room when Boris was talking, leave the phone on your desk, and leave the actual room. A hundred percent, and you can ask Mike Hill or Larry Bindfest, what we would do is it would be on speaker.

That's when landlines, it would be on speaker. And we would just put the mute button down. And my office was next to the GM's office. We'd go into my office. We'd do a bunch of other stuff. And we'd have Larry's assistant say, okay, he stopped. And then we'd scurry back in and say, oh, by the way, you know, we're not doing that.

So we already knew the answer. or to whatever he was saying and he would just Bob Babylon. And I don't mean like three minutes. And Scott Boris, you can ask around the game. He's famous for plus five straight minutes of talking on a phone call, which in the real world, imagine talking for five minutes straight on the phone without any sort of breath. It's insane.

No one hang up that is more memorable than any of the others? I'm embarrassed to tell you that I had a hang-up. up with the governor. Governor Jeb Bush, he was the governor in Florida. I look back on that. It was not my best moment and it did not lead to a deal, but I was so angry that we were having such problems getting state allocated money for a ballpark. When there was already money in the till, we just had to be a part of what already existed. And we, and I thought I had the Bush is all set because, remember, George was involved. in baseball.

And so to me, this was just, this was easy. And I was getting nowhere. And I knew behind the scenes was Norman Brayman and Marco Rubio and they were just working against us. And I knew that. And so that's Jeb. And I knew Jeb wanted to be a part of winning because he was at the 2003 celebration at the White House.

He just loved the good stuff and would not budge on the bad stuff. And I did a hang up. And then I was told by someone with whom I worked that hanging up on a governor doesn't work. I regret that. Put it on the poll, please, at Lebitard Show. Would a baby today ever be named Jeb at Lebitard Show? Exclamation point.

Famously. Jeff! Yes or no. Please clap. David, your thoughts of Netflix foray into baseball. It's getting panned. A lot of people are crushing Netflix for how the game was covered last night. Well, first of all, stop being upset with them because they missed the ABS.

Do I think the guy in the truck could have cut away from Tony Vitello in order to see what was going on with the first ever challenge? Yeah. But I also understand that that's the time you get the manager. The manager's told in advance that that's going to be his slot. And so he's ready for that. And you have to go straight through. You get one minute. You get three questions and then you're out.

And so it's just poor timing. but it's hard to blame Netflix for that. The camera bothered me only in that the centerfield camera was smoky, and now they're telling me it's an iris issue. I don't know what that means. Apparently, when there's sun and shade, it creates smoke and mirrors and some sort of what looks like a green screen. I don't understand, but I do know there's been shade games before,

and I've never seen that. So the production quality, that time and that center field camera bother me, the commercials for Netflix? No, because every network does it. When you see Fox or CBS, they're always promoting their own shows. That's who gets free tickets to the Super Bowl is the people who are in the shows on the network that's showing the Super Bowl and then they're showed on screen. So that stuff was fine with me. Winston, you know, whatever, with WWE. Yeah, but you say, but wait a minute, David, fine with you is one thing, okay? For those of you do not know, David Sampson was well ahead of his time and having showtime, a now defunct network,

do a reality show about the Marlins that was about five to ten years ahead of its time. And if they'd done it the way David wanted to do it, most honestly, it would have been a monster hit. But everyone was afraid of it and it quickly died. It got canceled. I don't think it even lasted the season. David, your sensibilities here are not the sensibilities of baseball fans. You like the amusement park elements of this. Baseball fans. are allergic to making it an amusement park, and you know this. But you asked me my view. I'm sorry.

Do you want me to give the view of the traditionalists? I can do that, but that seems boring to me. Yes, traditionalists are upset. Old white people are upset. How could you do this to my game of baseball? The customer. The customer is upset. It's not just...

But you're wrong, Dan, because that's not the customer that baseball wants. They are trying to take the demographic lower. They're trying to age out the people who are offended by that presentation. Fair enough. Is it working when what you get as Netflix enters into this game

is what seems to be, it feels to me like universal criticism. Do I have it wrong? I didn't take a universal poll, so I wouldn't be able to put that. Loud, look, opening day is not supposed to start with loud criticism. Are you using Twitter?

I'm just curious. Like, is that what you are basing on? I'm using people who are talking to me and texting me. Like, I'm getting an abnormal amount of negative reaction to opening day, which is the most positive of days. So every year there is criticism of something that happens. Anything that's new gets criticized. When you redo your opening for crying out loud, people are criticizing you.

You opened your show today, say, no, I guess people are looking for baseball is back because you saw it in the comments on YouTube. I understand what you're doing, Dan, and that's fine. I'm not reading the comments. It was Jeremy who was complaining that we don't have an interest. that baseball is back. It is ridiculous that we don't have a baseball's back. The other reason why you want it so you can sing it?

No. I would love Greg Cody's voice. No. No, I do not. Yes. I want Greg Cody as singing baseball is back. He wants to do it. He's probably already had a song written.

True or not, do you have a song written already? Oh, well, that's going to be a reveal for the live stream at 3 p.m. Well, it's a log jam. You better hurry, Jeremy. We need tennis is back and golf is back first. Oh, okay. Okay, good. Jeremy, you just violated a major broadcasting.

principle. You just made a promise that you will reveal something in only, what is it, five hours from now, something that clearly is not done. Yes, I can. I can make bad music with the best of them, David. Let me get to a couple of things that I have not gotten to here. One of them. I can't wait for hot dog eating conches is back. July 4th around the corner, Dan. One of them is the way that David was received for his contributions to our show and his own show on the WNBA negotiations. David told me, and I don't think he has ever done this before in 20 years on this show, he says I'd like a do-over. I'd like another crack at explaining something. And I'd like-

But that's not a do-over, Dan. I'd like to understand why your social media team felt it was necessary not once but twice to double down being maybe the worst possible teammate you could be by trying to not just impugn and incorrectly describe what was said, but to have a revisionist cutting and editing in order to make it look as though I'm some sort of hateful person of women, and anyone who knows me would obviously know the opposite of that, much to the chagrin of certain people used to be my life.

So that is completely preposterous. And the fact that you gave platform to it and then allowed your social media team to somehow clip it, It was obviously personal and that's what you do and that's what you guys love doing, but it was a bunch of horseshit if you asked me. You wanna know what I said? The horse hockey.

I said the same thing you said, Dan, which is the players did not win that negotiation. Period. That is not, I hate women, that is not, I hate the WMBA. That is me telling you that there are parts of that deal, including the length and the lack of opt-out that show me that the focus of look at how high the minimums got.

Look at how great the max deal is. That sort of stuff that the NWNBA owners knew very well that was going to be part of the next deal. That was not an issue. And yet, some reason, that gets translated into, oh, God, what a hateful guy. I got nothing good to say. Let's clip it.

It's ridiculous what you did, Dan. But that's fine. Do over. I don't want to do over because I know exactly what I said because I was sitting next. to you. I do not know what video clip you are talking

about. Yes, you do. I don't. I'm off. You did the show, Dan. I'm off. It was on your show. I am off of social media. I don't know how you got decontextualized. The only social media I'm on is

Netflix feedback. And here is the sound yesterday on the show. If the players are not going to move on a revenue split versus derive revenue share off of a fixed number. What is your opinion on what happens?

Maybe the end of the WMBA. The players will move. Did the player, do you think the players moved or not? They moved from whatever it was, 18%. They got it moved to 22%. But yes, they moved off of whatever it is they wanted the revenue to be. They got a little more than they wanted, not very much more. No, they moved down.

And obviously in a negotiation, you start high. and know you're going to settle for low. And I think all I was saying back then then you hang up. Is that the current deal that they wanted, the current deal doesn't look like what they wanted. And I understand the victory lap. I'm happy because players take a victory lap after a CBA is done

and owners don't because they know it's unseemly. So you're not going to see any leaks from owners saying, oh, we got them. You don't see that in any collective bargaining in any industry. Management just doesn't operate that way. And so for unions to do it is totally normal. And I'm not begrudging them that. I'm explaining that the actual WNBA, CBA, when you look at the provisions, when you look at what matters to management, they did not budge on the issues that mattered to them.

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Dan Lebatard. Tatas. Stugats. Taitas. This is the Dan Lebatar Show with a Stubber. I want to get to what is happening with the highlight team here. What are you shaking your head about now? What are you complaining about?

I'm off social media. I have no idea what happened in my show. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Dan, you know you make the edits for social. I saw you in the back room. And you do it with one finger on your phone. You've gotten good at it.

No, I was twisting my mustache saying, make sure to make David look bad. Worse you can make him look. Were you wearing a monocle? Can I get more hate on this clip? How do I invite a collaborator? How would you have me wearing a monicle? Twisting a mustache. There's always a monocle with that.

A monocle. Do you even wear a monocle? I thought you held a monicle up to you. What is the monical contribution? We have a bog down. We have an important jeb-check out his comedy at marlins. Dot TV. Yeah, please watch us.

Comedy with your baseball broadcast. What do you have, Mike? Well, I would have thought that Jeb was short for like Jeb-a-di or something, but that's not the case. shocking news here from Tony. His name is John Ellis Bush or Jeb for short. So Jeb is actually an acronym. So if we say Jeb Bush, it's saying John Ellis Bush Bush. Whoa. So it should be Jebush. That's right. That's right. Oh, you know what time it is. It's time for Higholites. Now, the cyclones are hitting a bit of a rough patch. This could be called a mid-season hiccup, Or it can be called a team in total turmoil.

Exhibit A for a team in total turmoil. Look, guys, we had a championship rematch yesterday. The Cyclones drew the match. It's not a loss. But look at this locker room. That is bad body language. Bad vibes all around. And to speak to the vibes, here's our captain.

Mind you, this was after a match win. This was Manu. A lot of good thing to say, so I prefer nothing. I'm not going to say nothing. That is tough to hear coming from your leader. World-class athlete. And the, and future South Beach Sessions, guests, Manu. And the frustration boiled over here with Unda.

David loved that. Against Benetrix. Show the clip. Caramola, sir, is dropped. Reckless behavior. Another world-class athlete. Yeah, that's it. So we were GM of the year for a reason, right?

We took this opportunity to put it in the group WhatsApp. That's still image of the locker room saying that this is unacceptable. But, you know, we boosted the guys up. We didn't want to come down too hard on them. We've just got to turn these vibes around. Guys, we're acting like we've lost three straight. We lost one, drew two in a row. We're still second in the standings right now.

And this team's morale is in the dumps right now because they're having a difficult time adjusting to this brand new front on, Dan. But David was a part of your live stream. And how did all of that go, David? I saw that a lot of people were watching. We're trying to keep High Lai a lot. both nationally and internationally. We're succeeding so far with all of the work that we're doing

with the ownership of this team. How did you enjoy partaking in the live stream? I loved it. High lie is huge in the Philippines and Hawaii. And I thought that the stream was amazing. What I love more is the group chat that Mike and Chris invited me into. And I must tell you that it's the first group chat

I've ever been invited into. And so I have none other, on my phone except the highlight one. And you guys are so active that I had to Google, I'm sorry to just do this to you, how to turn notifications off. How to silent a chat? Because it was just, yeah, how to silence a chat?

Because I still get the red bubble number and you guys do it at all hours of the night. And Mike, you have some funny comments and then there's pictures and there's videos and there's back and force. And so what I'm trying to learn, and I don't want to upset you, how often is a response required

to make you know that I'm still happy to be a part of it and interested in reading it? Good question. But not at the cadence that you're delivering it. This is really interesting. Having someone just discover group chat and group chat etiquette, you can be quiet, you can be a tourist.

That's all right. We got plenty of tourists. Chris Whittingham hasn't piped up once in that chat, yet he's still there, like a fly on the wall. David, that is. I was typed up as soon as I joined, but I had to give like a thumbs up to match some of the ha-haz. I find it very stressful when there has to be a reaction to a video and I'm in the middle of doing something and everyone has ha-haed it and I want to be different so that you'll notice that I participated. So I gave a thumbs up.

I did notice. I thought to myself, what are my thumbs? I was like, why is David? Why is David liking this photo with Mike I, I kita and myself? How surprised are you that the 2017 Shanghai Masters double champion John Isner is all about this sport? I am not, I love it. I happen. I don't understand several of the rules. I'm still learning. I'd like to find a way to watch it so it's not just pirated. And I do want to attend a match. But I am definitely fascinated by a sport that involves people who don't me look to be athletic. But the sport is something that I know I could never do.

because I didn't realize the difficulty in having something strapped to your hand and then the ability to catch it had hurt my shoulder just doing it and then whipping it the way they do. I don't understand why you don't need a better body to be that active on the court. Chris, can you just get me the sound isolated of a frustrated uanda? Yeah, we got to play that for Ron McGill and ask him what kind of animal that is. David, that's not even my guess is that... We love his passion.

It's such a low-volume chat, David, of all the chats, too. It's hilarious. I'm guessing that there's not a lot of activity on that chat, but you're inundated by what seems like a lot of activity to you. I also feel like I need to correct you. And I don't think that High-Lai is popular in either Hawaii or the Philippines. It is in the Philippines. It was.

It's actively played in the Philippines, the Basque Country, in Florida. I didn't know about Hawaii. I don't, I didn't, well, as you know, Dan, Hawaii is a huge state for us in our show, and no one told me, hey, there's a front on. By the way, I've Googled it, and they said, High-Lai is not big in Hawaii. That was one of the answers.

And also, the Philippines banned High-Lai in 1986. So I don't know if they're still playing over there. No, it's back, Jack. Robin is an instructor there. In 1986, they had a band. They tore down the major High-Lie building in 2000. Are you calling Robin a liar? I'm saying that he's taking whatever money and hanging out in the Philippines.

If I had the ability to hit the penalty box, Dan, you'd be in the penalty two minutes for stopping the show or not getting the show. I was calling back to the first hour and how popular you are in Hawaii. And don't blame me for explaining the show when you're the one who should be two minutes out of the room. Well, I just think that factually, if your facts are important to you. Talk about Highline, not the show. We were talking about Highlight. You're making a joke that's an inside joke to only you. A joke can't be so inside that you're the only one who gets it.

It stands right here. No, because you just talked about Hawaii in the first hour, how you felt the way you feel in Miami, that you get any table you want and that you're a BSD in Hawaii. It doesn't have anything to do with the conversation we were having or High Lie. That's fine, man. Keep yourself in the chair. God forbid you could ever do something wrong. Can I see the video one more time?

Because like Unda, you know, is stout. and when he's angry there's some physical comedy aspect caribola served is dropped hang with the video here we're going to get a good look at El Barba's

excellent beer look at that thing he looks like that's a squid that's hanging from his chin the bad guy Pirates of the Caribbean yeah he was the official that took the ball straight to the ankle he's okay I checked up

the fact that the the referees are bench players is the nugget that I still think about every day. See you later, David Samson. I don't believe that that's something you think about. Every day. I believe that that is just him lying. Nothing personal is the name of the podcast.

Thank you, David. Appreciate your time. Make sure to cut all that up and edit it in a way that makes him look most bad, most misogynistic, most evil. Thank you, social media team. That is a direct order, okay? Just use the sound that he says, I never said I hate women. Just use the I hate women and make sure to get that out into the manosphere and everywhere else so that David can be.

Money to be made there, Dave. So that David could be. I have an isolated clip from it. I'm some sort of hateful person of women. I'm some sort of hateful person of women. Wow. There's something there. There's something there.

An admission. See if we can get a little tight. get the AI people on it, make it most sinister and the largest possible betrayal. Thank you, David, nothing personal. Also, he might get booted from the chat because our form is real bad since we added them. I want to ask Jeremy what he was going for there with the monicle because I don't assume that a monicle is worn. I don't assume the audience knows what a monicle is. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show.

Do you know what a monicle is? Yes or no. I don't assume that the verb is. worn, I also don't assume that someone who's partaking in sinister behavior and twisting their mustache has a monocle. Like, I don't think of the... For sure, they do, Dan. This is ridiculous.

But you're making it something that's sinister as. Do you know what a monicle is? Yeah, isn't that what, like, the penguin from the old Batman TV series, he used to... Is it held or worn? I think it's held. You can do both, because you can stick it in between, like, the top and bottom eyelid. The real cartoon rich people, like Dan, they get it custom. made so that it can just sit there as if it's like reading glasses.

And I think it's had a recent surge in popularity because it does have a dedicated emoji on the iPhone. Can we get our social media team please to more aggressively be sinister and evil to David? I hate women. That's better. That's, that's, let's, let's circulate that order. Please just order that to whoever needs that order and make sure it gets out into the Manosphere.

I hate women. Also, biggest. example of Mandela effect might be the Monopoly guy not having a monocle. He has glasses, right? Wow, I only associate the monocle with the Monopoly guy. I'm thinking of the guy from Ace Ventura 2. I think that's why

people think, because he goes, and you must be the Monopoly guy. And he had a monocle, but the Monopoly guy does not have a monocle. I'm surprised by that. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show. Does the Monopoly guy, yes or no, does the Monopoly guy have

a monicle? Because I'm not kidding you when I tell you I don't associate it with anybody else. Mandela effect. Yeah, I think the Peanuts guy has it. Mr. Peanut does have it. Nailed it. That's what we're doing. A monocle. Wow.

I think that's what we're getting to here is that the Monopoly Man ever did. There are several articles about him not having it. Having glasses on occasion, they've added and removed those. But it is Mr. Peanut that has the Monocle. The peanut guy. He said peanuts. Whatever. The peanut guy.

We understood what it is that you meant. Whatever. What are you whatevering me for? It's whatever. You knew what I meant. I did, and I do understand what you meant. Didn't Mr. Clean just recently get retired? Speaking of these figures that are pop culture famous,

I'm pretty sure that it just recently was in the news that Mr. Clean was or has retired for the first time. I don't know what kind of run that he had. February 18th, 2020. 26. After 68 years of cleaning, he's gone. He'll be back. He returned on March 4th. I ended my session with the highlight team with three words, belief, adaptation, and aggression. I've been watching so many Pete Hegseth press conferences. I should have ended it with Warrior ethos. I just want to be clear for the audience that both Mike Ryan and Chris Cody, who are very interested in the self-

sabotage of the company and me have recommended that I interview Manu on a South Beach session. What a cat. That I do an hour with Manu. Go ahead and play that again so people can hear and see what it is they want me to do. I don't have a lot of good thing to say, so I prefer nothing. I'm not going to say nothing. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parlays on multiple long shots.

Don't say a game is one when it hasn't hit. triple zero. Always drink your Yeagermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision.

Brushing your teeth. Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence. Okay, maybe there are two rules. But the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Yeagermeister must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold.

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