Disney Nightmare: Why Pat McAfee, Aaron Rodgers, and Jimmy Kimmel beef is terrible for ESPN/ABC business (Episode 961)

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David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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We’ve been nominated in two categories for the Sports Podcast Awards! Best Baseball Podcast! Best Sports Business Podcast! You can vote for us here: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘decision’ as in a company decision as in making a choice as in ESPN as in ABC as in Disney as in Aaron Rodgers as in Pat McAfee as in Jimmy Kimmel. What happened? What happens next? (19:10) The Jets also have a decision to make. Aaron Rodgers is coming back next year. Is Zach Wilson? (31:34) Review: Four Daughters. (36:50) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Rory McIlroy and his apology for the criticism aimed at players who left for LIV checks. (43:15) NPPOD. (44:40) What happened with Kyrie Irving, the Utah Jazz, and a couple of rabbis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:04.0	go. Oh. Decision. That's the Nothing Personal Word of the day. It is Thursday, January 4th,
0:21.2	2004, and Bob Eiger has a decision to make, he as the CEO of Disney, wakes up every
0:29.4	morning wondering what will happen today.
0:33.0	I'm not sure that he had on his bingo card that he'd have to deal with a fight between Jimmy Kimmel and Aaron Rogers or a discrepancy
0:43.0	a disagreement between something that happens on one show
0:46.2	versus another.
0:48.0	Except that is a huge part of what you do
0:50.8	when you're the CEO of a media company, when you're the CEO of a media company,
0:52.8	when you've got different shows on different channels
0:56.0	with different audiences, one of the things
0:59.1	that you have to do is have a plan in place for how you decide jump balls. And I don't want to in any
1:08.3	way make fun of or not give the proper level of gravitas to what Aaron Rogers did on the Pat McAfee
1:16.4	show. But I want to take it out of the Epstein realm. I want to take it out of the pedophile rung. I want to take it out of the legal rung.
1:27.4	Get back to those. But for now, I wanted to talk about what was in my head thinking about how Bob Eiger deals with the situation like this.
1:39.0	And when you're the CEO, things come across your desk every day. There are different departments who
1:45.8	want different things and you're like the referee. One of the biggest jobs that a
1:50.2	CEO has of a private company or a public company.
1:54.0	From an operational standpoint you're a referee, which department is going to prevail with which issue,
2:00.2	how you allocate budgets across different departments,
2:03.2	how you decide where investment is made.
2:06.2	Another one of the ways you spend your day
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