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Nothing Personal with David Samson

2024 Election Update: Joe Biden out, Kamala Harris in?; Astros stock up, Braves dealing with more injuries! (Episode 1093)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘dropped out’ as in Joe Biden as in Kamala Harris as in Donald Trump as in 2024 elections. Joe Biden officially dropped out of the race. Pressure had been mounting for weeks. The Democratic Party has been pushing for this. Now what? Now where are we? (13:55) Sorry, St. Louis. 2nd time my show was canceled. This one definitely wasn’t my fault. Outages worldwide. Flights canceled. Hospitals down. Banks down. Over a simple software update? (23:00) NPPOD. (35:09) Review: Bonnie & Clyde. (38:30) It’s time to talk 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. All eyes on Ichiro. (43:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the Oakland Athletics firing 50% its non-baseball staff. (49:30) We have the start to the Copa America lawsuits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

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go.

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go. Dropped out. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It's Monday, July 22nd,

0:20.8

2004. Welcome back from yet another weekend of complete craziness as it

0:30.3

related to things that happen in the sports world,

0:33.8

things that happen in your world, my world, not related to sports.

0:38.5

I was clearly supposed to be in a St Louis hotel room today, and we will get to why I'm not and what

0:46.0

absolutely should petrified you as it petrified me about why I'm not but we

0:51.5

start with President Joe Biden dropping out of the race. I don't think that I could have possibly

0:59.0

expected Sunday to unravel the way it did, even though I had been saying since June 27th

1:08.1

there was going to be an issue and the avalanche had begun with just a pebble of a doubt from the debate June 27th that then turned

1:18.6

into a few boulders that became a full avalanche that resulted in President Biden having no choice but to drop out of the race and no longer seek re-election.

1:36.4

There is no way that it would have occurred to me that I would have found out from a text from Matt Koca in the same way that he communicates to me all through the week, every day since October of 2019, giving me information saying, have you seen this?

1:51.0

Start thinking about that an NBA insider named shams

1:57.4

Charney you know him he gets into it with Woeshe he had a very simple tweet that Biden was dropping out of the without retweeting Joe Biden without commenting on the fact that Biden had already announced it.

2:10.0

I went on Twitter when Koko said it because I thought I it was wrong even though Sunday was the day we were told to wait for by sources in and around the president that he would drop out, quote,

2:24.2

as early as this weekend, likely Sunday.

2:30.5

My mind was racing as I quickly read and then read again Joe Biden's release

2:37.1

President Joe Biden's tweet. I thought about the world we live in where that is the way it was communicated was through

2:47.1

X and then I thought about how we got here, which is has to go back not to Sunday, not to June 27th.

2:57.0

It has to go back to when Biden first ran for president for this presidency and said he would be a transitional president.

3:05.0

There were questions about his age and the age of both candidates when Biden beat

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