Did Suns owner Robert Sarver deserve a harsher penalty? Brett Favre scandal rocks Mississippi; World Cup stadiums are a disaster! (Episode 661)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘one year’ as in 365 days as in a lot of hours and a lot of minutes as in Robert Sarver, the owner of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury, has been suspended for a full year and fined the maximum $10M for his conduct. Well, what did he do? Lewd jokes at meetings, berating employees, sending unwanted messages to employees. Just a bunch of terrible conduct. Why isn’t he forced to sell? (13:30) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about the Brett Favre scandal that has rocked Mississippi. He’s been accused of helping to funnel $5M of state funds to building a volleyball arena at his daughter’s university! WHAT! (26:40) Review: No Limit. (32:25) The World Cup stadiums are currently a disaster. They were built through slave labor. Don’t bring alcohol. Try to stay out of jail. But the facilities are a BIG woooooof! (39:55) NPPOD. (44:50) Are you watching Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, and Albert Pujols? Are you? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One year is the nothing personal word of the day for September 14, 2022.
0:26.6	One year is the suspension that the owner of the Phoenix Sons and the Phoenix Mercury
0:31.0	of the WMBA will have to serve after yet another independent investigation by a sports
0:38.0	league where they didn't hire Koke and Samson.
0:40.8	The hair of the old Wachtel Lipton T firm.
0:44.5	It's one of the go-to firms.
0:47.8	Full investigation on the behavior of one of the owners just to remind you of this story.
0:52.4	Robert Sarver was, I don't know about accused, but close enough, as running a toxic workplace
1:00.6	making lured crude jokes, being misogynistic, racist, and any other possible is to think
1:06.7	of that is behavior not appropriate for an owner.
1:12.5	I always smile when people say that to me.
1:16.4	That's not how an owner should act.
1:18.6	My response to that is always the same.
1:20.8	That's not how anybody should act.
1:24.3	I don't quite understand why when you are rich and famous or own something, you are held
1:29.3	to a different standard.
1:31.4	But if you are not, if you are working at a different job or you don't make a lot of money,
1:36.6	you don't have a lot of money, you don't have a lot of friends, you don't, whatever it
1:39.2	is, you're allowed to act a certain way.
1:41.6	I think it should be the same sort of level of behavioral requirements for any person
1:49.1	with a heartbeat.
1:51.0	So Robert Sarver gets in trouble.
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