The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: The Devil He Knew (feat. David Samson)

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

The birthday boy David Samson is here to discuss the divorce between MLB and ESPN and what it means for Major League Baseball moving forward. He also explains the hierarchy of birthday messages, why he spends all 24 hours of his birthday awake, and why it's possible to "party hardy" at Spring Training in Florida. Plus, how do you pronounce "Portillo's?" Then, Jessica and Jeremy loved Timothée Chalamet's speech at the SAG Awards, leading the entire crew to a discussion on the movies nominated for The Oscar Awards this weekend, including how to pronounce Ralph Fiennes correctly.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to DraftKings Network. 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

that 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 segment is presented by LinkedIn jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash prep. Terms and conditions apply.

This means that David Sampson is here. David Sampson is, it's a special day because he's also LinkedIn. What are you doing? What are you doing linking in over here for LinkedIn? I am sitting here wondering how that promotion just happened and how thrilled I am for people to engage with Good Follow and laughing at the fact that no other promotions ever done.

So I can't wait for the Nothing Personal promotion and so you can listen to me sing Human League, which I did on today's show because I was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar and that much is true. David, did you cut a promo for Nothing Personal? Wasn't asked to, I mean, were you? I'm being told in my ear that every show has been asked to and that they haven't received Nothing Personals yet. I will bet, well, you are now impugning me and or Koka

and that is absolute horse hockey. You show me the proof of being asked to have cut a commercial and then I will say I'm sorry. All right, well what's happening right now? We're gonna work on that proof. Well, what is happening between David Sampson and everybody that he, instead of doing what he was supposed to do for LinkedIn there,

he's just yelling about other people getting promotions. Now I'm hearing that it wasn't an email, it was like he physically said it to every producer. Verbal, verbal. There was a verbal conversation between Jason and Coca. Thumbs up from our director. Yeah, Jason. Well, no, okay.

If I've learned anything here, it's got everything in writing. Damn right, Billy. Every last thing. So who are you yelling at right now? You don't have promotions, but you're supposed to be doing something for LinkedIn right now, are you not?

We did it. Just move on. Dan, I really don't wanna do what you're doing right now, but if you're gonna do it, we'll do it. Chris Cody read the intro. This is the segment that's sponsored by LinkedIn. He did it exactly as he was supposed to do, and now you're supposed to do the segment.

Now, Samson, in Dan's defense, in his mind, every promo has to come with a chant. LinkedIn, LinkedIn. That's what I've grown accustomed to. That's what's happened. That is who I am now. Now we've done the promo. All right, thank you.

So I wanna wish a very special day to some people here because February 26th is notable. So a happy birthday to the late Johnny Cash. He would have been 93 years old today. And happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck. A happy 72nd birthday to Michael Bolton. A happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck. And of course the most important one Twitch streamer Cheese turns 29 today.

Wow! And happy birthday to him! I don't care! Good luck! Cheese is 29. Yeah, that'll do it. So David, ESPN and Major League Baseball have divorced three years early. Why?

What happened there? What does it mean that $550 million is just goes up in smoke? Well, it didn't go up in smoke because now Major League Baseball has an entire package that they can sell to a different broadcaster and a different outlet to replace that money. MLB wanted to get away from ESPN

because you couldn't find ESPN. This is really remnants of Skipper, where you can't find highlights in package A or B or C of Sports Center. Baseball tonight disappears. The promotion for baseball just stopped with ESPN, which as Rob Manford said, has become sort of a declining, decreasing platform. And so the rights deal that baseball had with ESPN had a mutual opt out after three years of the deal. And both parties said, you know what?

I think we're both gonna be okay without you. And the proof is gonna be in the pudding. If MLB cannot sell the package that ESPN had for more than 550, then they lose. If they can sell it for more, then they win. And I would take the latter bet if I were you. David, if you were Rob Manfred and you had two big offers that are roughly the same monetarily, but one is via a streamer and one is via linear TV.

Which direction do you take? Assuming all the particulars are equal, the biggest difference is just method of distribution. Well, but I would take linear, but I would want, though, there to be a streaming part of it. So I know I'm not answering exactly what you're saying to me, but you know that very few, if any, platforms are really gonna be one or the other.

Now, you could talk about Netflix and Apple and what they're trying to do there, but at the end of the day, let's change it to, I wanna reach the most people possible, whatever that is, if the money's equal. Now, if I can make more money and reach fewer people, I'm gonna make more money and reach fewer people, I'm gonna make more money and reach fewer people. Was it really mutual?

Like, was MLB really like happy with this? Yeah, this had been going on for years. ESPN had actually been signaling when they negotiated this deal, and it was announced in 21 that there'd be this opt out. Every time we re-upped with ESPN, including in the skipper days when I was a part of that, it was done with our fingers and toes crossed

because we didn't feel loved, appreciated. It very much is like a divorce where sometimes you stick it out for longer than you expect to stick it out because you don't exactly know what to do next or you have a fear of what to do next or is it going to be just as bad next, or do I wanna be with the devil I know versus the devil I don't,

and that's not me discussing devils as people, that's an expression, but this has really been signal. What just happened there? What just happened there? What just happened? I thought you were talking about real people. What did you do? You talked so much that you talked yourself into a circle,

and then were afraid to offend people who related to the devil? Well, today's my birthday. Really? What? It is. You have the same birthday as cheese? As Johnny Cash?

Michael Bolton. I do. Who left him off here? And so here's the question. There's about a 48% to 52% chance that I'm going to get some sort of text or communication from my ex-wife. And so I wanted to be sure in case there was someone

listening to the show who may contact her, that that contact wouldn't come back to me, that oh, I referred to her as the devil. Which I didn't. You just made it so much worse though. You were worried you called your ex-wife the devil. No, she knows that. And now of course it's clear.

To be clear, to be clear. I didn't do that. Hold on. Guys, guys, I'm going to stick up for David Samson here. He did not call her the devil. He called her the devil he knew. Yes. Big difference, as you were doing.

I appreciate you, Amin, and with friends like you, who needs agents. If you're going to be in Hollywood, Amin, you've got to learn to play that just a little bit better. Jessica getting back to the devil, we know in the devil, we don't watch the big question with MLB was, do we have a deal in hand where we can go to the owners and say that we are going to opt out of this deal with the ESPN? We know that ESPN is not our friend. We are not happy with them. Do we know that we can do better? And my view is it would not have been a mutual opt out

if they could not do better. When you say not happy with them though, please correct me here if I'm wrong, because ESPN helped usher in a golden age of baseball on television. And as the sport shrunk and regionally cable networks bought things up ESPN covered baseball a lot less than they used to a lot less well and just with a lot fewer resources What you're talking about now like Tim Kirch and and a bunch of other people we care about over there have drowned

Under the they're not paying paying very much care to baseball over at ESPN. They're not covering it with a lot of resources. Isn't that part of what ends up happening at the end here? Well, every, you know, at the end, everything is always worse than it was when it got to the end. But Dan, I'm not talking about the resources. I'm actually talking about ESPN made a business decision and we never blamed them for it We just commented on it that the business decision of when baseball games get moved to ESPN to instead of on big SPN Or what gets simulcast on ABC as well as ESPN or where in the high lit and sports center when he used to matter Whether you're in the first block or not

What kind of you're talking about Tim Kirch and you're talking about some of the best people who cover baseball who are employed by ESPN, but at the end of the day, they invested more money in other properties like the NFL, like the NBA, and therefore they wanted to support the properties that they spent more money and invested more money in, and that's their decision, that works fine.

But there's no coincidence that Fox announced yesterday right after the ESPN MLB breakup that Fox is leaning even more into baseball with some really cool things that they're broadcasting and more expansive service and time and resources and money. That's not a coincidence. I guess what I'm asking David and I'll leave it at this, the partnership between ESPN and baseball, it's a television partnership. It benefits both parties. If Major League Baseball goes elsewhere, are they going to be able to just get more programming and power because it's going to matter more for that entity to have baseball.

Of course it's the same with the NBA. The NBA left Turner, they left WBD, and they're going to get a whole lot of love and attention from NBC and Peacock. So the property is worth more than that. When you say I'd make the latter bet, you're saying the property is worth more than the $550 million. No, what I'm saying is we're going to know for sure because there's going to be an announcement by baseball that they have a new deal with the package of assets that used to be with

ESPN. And if that package, believe me, we'll find out is the package worth less than 550, then MLB was wrong. If it's worth more than 550, they were right. You started this segment with the lyric from a song that seven people in our audience got. And you were doing this because I assume it was your birthday and I don't even remember what the song was. But what do you want me by the human? Okay, I want a classic. Okay. Yeah, but I just didn't. I wasn't paying

that close attention. He was just amusing himself and seven people that he was making that reference for. And so I was just curious, do you have some birthday habits? Like, do you have, are you an unusual birthday person? Does it mean something to you super meaningful that today is your birthday and we've gotten you nothing and we haven't celebrated it and we celebrated the birthday of cheese instead? That was pretty, that was something.

So what I do do on my birthday, it's a 24 hour day. So my day, I watched the Mavs Lakers and that got me past midnight. And then I watched the Brutalist. And then of course there's people like I'm in touch with in various time zones, starting around 3.30, 4 a.m., starting with texting and conversations. Then?

And I will push straight through. So I stay awake every birthday. I'm awake for the full 24 hours because I don't want to waste a minute of it. I find it to be laughable that people want to sleep on their birthday, like blow off one third of it. You'd fall behind in contacting people

who are reaching out to you with such love and attention like on Facebook that you really need to respond to. But I do do that. And the other thing I do every single birthday, and it's gonna you're gonna make fun of me damn because you think I do this on purpose. There isn't a birthday that goes by that I don't watch Let It Ride. You're gonna laugh because you think that's all I talk about, but it just happens to be true. It's just pathetic. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Hines 57. Nothing gets by. Wait, did only seven people in the audience get that? No, your ketchup joke. Okay, it's not a why is that a joke?

That's more a description. So you're okay. Jessica said double nickels and I said Hines. So are you okay with a birthday text? It sounds that doesn't offend you if someone just text you. Well, it's interesting. There's a hierarchy. So there's there's the Facebook message.

Then there is the email the the text, the phone call, and then the picked up phone call is obviously the top of the food chain that when someone calls and then I pick up assuming I'm not doing a show, which I'm scheduled to be doing for most of the day actually, but that's how I look at it.

And when people are in a different place that I thought they would be, that can lead to a problem with expectation in terms of either surpassing or falling way short of what I'd expected. How do we feel about the day after happy belated birthday? I go with happy 364 days before your next birthday. Where in the hierarchy is the devil?

No, not the devil you know, the devil in general. I'm not a big believer in that. So I think that all the devils we know are sort of Kaiser Soze-like, that they're right here in plain clothes. I do wanna laugh for a moment as people get to look behind the curtain here at the idea that David Sampson,

who I'm gonna guess is working about 16 to 20 hours a day. He doesn't sleep, he's crazy, he's an unbelievable weirdo. Working 20 hours a day. I don't know, how many hours? Just said he watched four movies yesterday. One of them was three and a half hours long. How many hours a day do you think you're working, Dave?

I would say realistically 15, that's all. But I do watch, but I count. So Above the 15 is a movie that I'm not going to review on Nothing Personal. Like my Let It Ride, 85 minutes today, that will not count as work. But the Brutalist I'll review on Nothing Personal. And yes, that was a three hour and 25 minute movie, but Jessica, there was a one minute intermission on the home brutalist. In the theater, it's longer, 15 minutes,

but for home, when you spend the 1999, it's only a one minute intermission, which is barely enough time to do anything. You were gonna say take a shit, and you censored yourself. I was gonna say pee pee. Well, I do the same math, by the way, as David. Anytime. I'm watching sports according to my wife. I'm working. Sorry, honey Gotta work what I'm saying though is that David's always talking. He's always busy and in the middle of that

He's always worried also in the middle That he might say something that would get back to his family is him calling his wife the devil and it's where he tried It's where the tries, it's where he, the devil he knows. It happens, Dan. It's where he stumbles and it's where he falls down even though he likes to fancy himself like a ballerina with words.

Dan, I'm begging you here. I am actually, and there may only be seven listeners who care about how much I am begging you to stop doing what you're doing. Is the devil one of those listeners? Not the devil, you know, the devil in general. Listen, Sammy Sosa was back in the dugout yesterday. Sammy Sosa is in a transition.

Well, I mean, he's sitting here saying, you're going to beg me on air. You're going to look at here and like, Dan, I'm begging you. And so I have to back off. And how do I back off? I go to Sammy Sosa. Like, yeah, it was a terrible transition because you're telling me back off, Dan. I'm begging you.

I'm begging you. So Sammy Sosa's the man. Every time you talk, you're not backing off. Begging you. Oh, that's awesome. Sammy Sosa was in Chicago. Did anyone see that? Did anyone see Sammy Sosa's quote from yesterday? He showed up at spring training first time in like 20 years. He had a date time with the Ricketts family and he was speaking to young players about how to be successful.

And all he said is, you really have to work extra hard to be successful and then even harder to be a superstar. And all I kept picturing is whether he would call him like into a corner and unzip that toiletry kit and say, look at the needle, that's the way to do it. Now I know what a detente is, but a mean doesn't if you could tell them. It's when things get better.

It's when all of a sudden people are getting along when they didn't get along and now everything's good again. It's like in a relationship, like with a partner or a significant other and there's a problem and instead of going the divorce route, you go the mediation route that then leads to a rekindling of the love they taught or an extension It's a day taunt David would you say ogle ogre ogle or ogle? I say ogle

Damn it David quick question, you know, you were the president of Marlins Your spring training is always here in Florida Grapefruit League as a president I know Scouts will go to the other league, but have you ever been to the Cactus League? No, I would stay in Florida with our team. So we would go to Jupiter and we would stay in Jupiter from, let's say, February 15th up until the last day when we would try to find exhibition games to play and get paid to do it before the end of spring training. So I love to stay in Jupiter. And there were times that I could have driven back and forth to plantation, but would choose to stay

up in Jupiter, which some people commute. I chose not to. And spring training is rebirth. Even when you think you're gonna stink, like Bruce Sherman of the Marlins said, hey, take the over 63 and a half. I don't think he should be talking about gambling, but he was very bullish on his team,

going over 63 and a half, and that's really saying something, isn't it? So it's a time for hope. It's the best preseason in sports, right? By far. By far. It just has a vibe. Pactis League is great, by the way.

Pactis League is amazing. Portillo's, you go to Portillo's and you go to a game. No Portillo's. Portillo's. Florida League's better, but No Portillo's. No Portillo's. Florida League's better, but it's fine. No way, no way. Buddy, I'm telling you, have you ever been to Cactus League? Chris?

I've seen of it. No, let me tell you right now. Never been. Let me tell you right now. Grapefruit League, that's for old folks. Cactus League is where you wanna get a party going, man. Oh, that's not true, I mean. That's not, believe me, that's not true.

The players and staff can party pretty hardy in spring training. Now, when the Marlins were in Viera, I'm not sure, maybe this is again, Dan, seven people who know what Viera is, but that is a place that is in the middle of a belt in Florida. That is not where you wanna be to party.

But when you're in the Palm Beach area and Fort Lauderdale area, you are loving life. No Portillo's though. I think it's Portillo's, but hold on, party. Hardy? Hardy? Party pretty Hardy? What was that David?

This is a neck that needs to get dumped on. Party pretty Hardy. I believe that's an expression that is not Heinz related. I believe that when people party, you can either party meekly or party heartily. And I was saying to party Hardy. David was one of those people who would walk into a party and say what comes before part B right right? You ever drop that line? What is the hearty in your party

that you're talking about that you imagine at, and I didn't mean to be insulting, I'm guessing it's Portillo's. I don't know, is it Portillo's? It's Italian, it's not Hispanic. No, I think Dick Portillo may have had Mexican ancestry. Someone should look into that. I thought that Phoenix.

They do serve Italian beef though, that's one of their prime. I assumed you were talking Mexican because of how delicious that would be with Cactus League. Like if you were going margaritas and Mexican food, that's why I assumed that, that's what I thought you were doing there. You've never heard of Portillo's?

No. It's a Chicago. It's uniquely Chicago. Yeah, it's a Chicago hot dog place. In Arizona. A hot dog with the pickle on it and stuff. Well, Dick Portillo sold the company recently for a billion dollars and now they're everywhere. Are they?

Mm-hmm. How about that? From a modest childhood as the son of Greek and Mexican immigrants, so, Portillo's? Portillo, it is Portillo. I'm watching a commercial to see how they say it and then that's how I'm gonna say it. They say Portillo's.

They say Portillo's. You don't have to second guess me on this. Okay, I'm sorry, we've done a withering judgment of this. I just assumed you were going to a minute. Maybe he says his own name differently, but the chain is commonly called portillos. Oh boy, she's backpedaling. But Dan said it's the other one.

Well, Dan would know, because he just found out about it five minutes ago. You thought it was a Mexican joint. I did, I thought I copped to my injury. I thought you were doing a bit, but no, you were actually a bit, but no, that was, you were actually correcting me, got it, okay. Dan in his head, her, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

I just assumed that spring training baseball in the Cactus League, if you're telling me on a party that's hearty, I assumed it was Salt and Margaritas in the mid-debt. Of course she was wrong, though. How would she know any of that? That's a really good voice. I like that. The character needs to flourish.

I don't like the covering of the microphone so I don't get it fully. I like you too David. You're my favorite person on the show. Even though I'm 57. Happy birthday David. I'm always rooting for you. Oh god, now I know you've gone too far. You're the devil I know. Don't you forget that.

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5G speeds not available in all areas. Dan Lebatard! Go pee-pee! Stugats! Go pee-pee! This is the Dan Lebatardar Show with the StuGards. ["The Best Picture"] Jessica, have you gotten to the nominees? Have you gotten to all of the best picture nominees?

Because I'm sure David Sampson has a whole lot of opinions. I don't know if you're gonna be able to get through this by the end of the week. I have not gotten to the brutalist yet, David, but did you like it? And did you think Adrian Brody was best actor worthy? So after at about 4.52 a.m. as the credits were rolling, my head was that I thought Chalamet was better

in A Complete Unknown. And going into it, because Adrian Brody had won up until the SAGs, he had won every award, I was assuming that I was going to be all in on Brody. He was good, don't get me wrong. And the movie is a masterpiece. It deserves the nominations it's getting, the production design, all of the the way it looks, the way it feels, Brady Corbett is the director, really truly an amazing movie but Shallowmane, A Complete Unknown was better and his speech at the SAG Awards

is what got me there. I loved it. I have it. Great. Let's play it right here actually for the audience. I know the classiest thing would be to downplay the effort that went into this role and how much this means to me, but the truth is this was five and a half years of my life. I poured everything I had into playing this incomparable artist, Mr. Bob Dylan, a true American hero, and it was the honor of a lifetime playing him. It's an honor I share with Monica, Elle, Edward, the entire cast who in a genre doing a biopic that could be perhaps tired. Everyone gave it their all.

So I'm deeply grateful to them. And lastly, I can't downplay the significance of this award because it means the most to me. And I know we're in a subjective business, but the truth is I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats. I'm inspired by the greats. I'm inspired by the greats here tonight. I'm as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Viola Davis, as I am by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and I wanna be up there. So I'm deeply grateful to that.

This doesn't signify that, but it's a little more fuel, it's a little more ammo to keep going. Thank you so much. That's unusual. I love him. He's the best. You don't see acceptance speeches like that often where you just acknowledge, I wanna win,

and he's on the Oscar trail right now where he's doing a whole bunch of things, campaigning in the current day of campaigning. Thank God it's different than the way it was done in the Harvey days. You know, when Shakespeare in Love Won, which is a movie I loved, but in hindsight so angry about how it all went down.

He's campaigning to win an Oscar, wants to be the youngest Oscar winner, best actor ever. And for him to admit it, what's wrong with that? What's wrong with saying that you wanna be the greatest and that this is a sign that you are on your way to be recognized by your peers that way? And a bunch of people were negative about that speech and I was not one of them.

Hot take here. I love that speech. I love that sentiment, everything that you're talking about. I don't like that Chalamet shows us a little bit too much of himself. At Nick Games, like I don't wanna know that you love the Knicks and you're just a dumb Nick fan like all my friends in my group chats.

I want that, I need him to maintain that mystery that Hollywood- Daniel Day-Lewis would never. That Hollywood superstar mystique, I want him to be unattainable. To the point though. No, I like that he's like a regular New Yorker. Exactly. But he was just telling you he doesn't wanna be one of the regular people I want him to be unattainable. No, I like that. He's like a regular New Yorker. Exactly. But he was just telling you he doesn't want to be one of the regular people.

He wants to be Daniel Day-Lewis and Brando. And he's like 29. I'm telling you. No, he's way younger than that. Please check that. I believe he's 29. But my view is that Daniel Day-Lewis, he's going to be Daniel Day-Lewis. My view is he's 29 because he's 29. But everyone can keep correcting me in the no no I'm wrong 67 I

Believe that he's probably has a chance Remember him and loved the Coopers. I remember him in oh what movie was it where he played interstellar you know He played like the Sun yeah He was great in that too Was he a douche? Yeah. Was he a douche? Oh no, that was, don't look up. That's in Don't Look Up. Don't Look Up, he was the little douche. He was great in that too. He was. He's had such a cool career and his press tour, like you mentioned David,

not just campaigning for the Oscar now, but the press tour that he had leading up to A Complete Unknown is what got so many young people to the theaters to go see it, because he was being this authentic weirdo that he is. He was talking about ripping milk duds and sucking all the chocolate out of it to chew the caramel like a weirdo.

Like, he was having some of the strangest interviews you've ever seen and it was so admirable because it was just this dude who was like, yeah, I waited outside of a Broadway show because I saw Omari Stoudemire was there and I wanted to get his autograph and I did the same thing for Landry Fields. He should be every sports fan's favorite actor

because he's competing like those who we admire in athletics and he's a giant sports fan himself. I love this guy. I love Milk Duds. Michael Phelps is 39. Thank you. I actually didn't know that. The other actor other than Brody and Chalamet

who has pretty good odds to win best actor is Ray Fiennes, who is the star of Conclave. Where do you rank his performance? Because I'm with you, I haven't seen The Brutalist. I thought Chalamet was amazing in A Complete Unknown. I really enjoyed that movie. It helps that I also am a Big Dylan fan. But I also thought Ray Fiennes was excellent in Conclave.

Has Ray Fiennes been bad in any movie ever? No. Well, Voldemort maybe. The only thing he's been bad at is pronouncing his own name. It's Ralph. You can't like mystify us like, ooh, it's Ray Fiennes, his great, it's Ralph, Ralph Fiennes.

Not American to me. Doesn't matter, there's an L in there. I didn't like the last Harry Potter. I'll give him low, I thought that it was weird. Not American to me. Doesn't matter, there's an L in there. I didn't like the last Harry Potter. I'll give him low, I thought that it was weird, I don't know, I didn't like- It was just a bad ending by the screenplay, not for me. No, he's fine, he was fine. Ray Fiennes is 62.

Why was there a negative- There is some talk, folks, that Ray Fiennes could sneak away, you know when they say that if there's a split at the top between Brody and Chalamet, and then all of a sudden you got the third guy come in and take it, Ralph Fiennes, I don't think he's going to win, though people should see Conclave

because we could be days or weeks away from watching a real life Conclave. Obviously I hope the Pope fully recovers and everything's fine with him, but at the end of the day, this movie is about what actually happens behind the scenes. Another guy with the end of the page. Another devil you don't know situation. He's from England.

Name me one other person. Any other person named Rafe spelled Ralph. Okay, just I wanna be clear on this. Is a meme because this is a great insult if this is true. I didn't know it to be true. You don't get to change Ralph to Ray so that we consider you more of a thespian. You're still Ralph if indeed you're Ralph.

I just don't know if Amin's got this right. It's a great insult if he's got it right because Ralph is different than Ray. Because I've watched EastEnders and other BBC shows and there have been characters that say, Ralphie, Ralphie, come on. I've never heard Raife. Never heard that.

Do you think people in Britain when they burp, they go Rafe instead of Ralph? Maybe it's not an L in the middle of his name, it's a capital letter I. Oh. So it's Rafe. Great take. The Pope's 88.

Which one? David, what is the movie you're reviewing for us this week? I wanna review an important movie that I hope you'll all see. It's a documentary and it's not nominated for best documentary, but it's called Don't Die. And it's about this guy who spends millions of dollars in order to stay young and live forever.

It's called Don't Die, the man who wants to live forever. And it goes through what he does. And it seems like a pyramid scam because he's trying to sell products and get people to come to conferences. But he's got a routine that would make my routine look like Levitard's routine. And what it does is it basically gives you a shot. Now, you could still get run over by a bus.

You could still meet an untimely, unfortunate death in myriad ways that family members can have happen to them. However, he looks really good. And what if he's right? That's what I was thinking when I was watching the movie. Is there stuff I can do more than I'm doing now? Not as much as he's doing that would enable me to get double Hinds, which is really what I'm trying to get to. I want to get to a buck 14. That is sort of, I want to be at fourth and a half inning right now. I want to be at 50% to do that.

I keep wondering, should I do anything differently? And this documentary gave me a few ideas, some of which I'll take, some of which I will not take. God, you will be so short at 114 years old. This guy goes, because older people shrink, you just be so tiny. No. Just be so small.

So that's actually taller people shrink. I'm already shrunk. I'm not gonna shrink it. Tell that to my grandparents who were roughly your height in their double nickel era. I love the idea of short people growing. What do you have happening here, David? You're going to get shorter.

I do not believe that is accurate, actually. I think tall people get shorter. I don't think short people get shorter. All people get shorter. All people get shorter. But I'm already short. So were my grandparents, little tiny Italian people. And then they kept getting shorter

and eventually couldn't even see you have yourself leveling off Or do you have yourself growing with age? No, no, I'm I how would I grow with age? 114 I mean you're gonna be like a little Polly pocket. I'm just gonna put you in my little pocket That guy who that documentary is based off of, he goes viral on social media every now and then because he posts pictures, not cheese. This guy's 47 by the way, Billy. And he goes viral because apparently he like has some sort of blood transfusion thing going on with his son, David, that people think is really weird. He's like trying to steal

his son's youth. Did they dive into that kind of weirdness on this? They did. So when I said I would do some and not all, I am not involving my son's youth. Did they dive into that kind of weirdness on this? They did. So when I said I would do some and not all, I am not involving my son in this. I am not trying to take his blood or do transfers. Now, it's funny because it's just doping, if you think about it. And doping has been a scandal that happens to be a PED in sports and cycling.

And there's great documentaries about that, or you can just bring on Lance to talk about it. But this is an example where he's trying everything, but something's working decently well because he looks damn good. It's Brittany Renner's birthday, by the way. Thank you, Amin. You're still in movie- 32.

You're in movie star character still. Thank you, Samson, you're still in movie. You're in movie star character still. Thank you, Samson, good talking to you. Look at him. I guess happy birthday, we should be saying happy birthday to him as well. Look, what are you laughing about? Billy, you think? I guess happy birthday is the weakest

happy birthday wish ever. Where's that on the hierarchy? I'm sure they spoke at like 3 a.m. this morning. Billy, I was just dis spoke at like 3 a.m. this morning. Billy, well, I was just disoriented because you did a lot in very small windows during this hour. Like you were, you had me spinning

with what it is that you were whispering in small windows during this hour. He's 34. You've had a very strong hour. The pope is 88. Dan, do you wanna eulogize David before he goes? Like you normally do to people on their birthday? He's 57 years.

He's 57 years old. Yeah, you want to talk about mortality? Well, you wrote like a little thing for Greg on his birthday. You didn't write anything for David. Well, David's getting to 114, guys. That's a hierarchy. Dan, we've just begun. I don't want to be eulogized by you. You don't need to say anything other than Happy birthday,

have a great day, goodbye. All right, because you said you had a lot of, all you were doing is taping all day. And then I said you worked 20 hours and you said 15 and everyone laughed at you. Because they thought that that was the under or the over. They don't believe you, I'm guessing. They think you're watching Let It Ride all day.

Well, I think that there's more people than you think who don't believe that, but that's perfectly okay, too. We're all good. It doesn't matter. I work efficiently. Some days I work more hours than others. Some days I sleep more than others. But in general, I try to get a lot done because, Dan, there's a lot to do every day. Yes, I understand. If I could spend less time per day trying to get in touch with you, I would be able to sleep more and live longer. Okay, because you want me working 15 hours a day too. I just want you answering a text or a call

once in a while. You guys need a day time. Eric about do is 53 today. Thank you David, good talking to you. Yes, Johnny Cash, oh we didn't even get him. What it's worth David, I really like your birthday suit. What? Send him to the.

That did not land right. Party hearty David. Jeremy, no no, stay there. No no no no, go. Okay. No no, stay. You wanna hear from me about the heat? Jeremy, no, I'd like you.

Uh huh. To explain to me why you decided to whimper a goodbye that began with for what it's worth and then threw a nice compliment at Samson and you thought that would be okay. Jessica told me to. It's her fault. I'm just telling you the truth.

Everything's my fault this segment. You understand, because a birthday suit, it also means like you're naked. But he's wearing a special jacket on his birthday. And it's nice and I liked it. So I figured I would tell, hey, David, I like your birthday suit. But that also like-

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