My experience running the Tokyo Marathon; War with Iran; Update on the Padres sale (Episode 1420 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘arigato’ as in thank you as in Japan as in marathon as in wow. I can’t believe I got it done. I finished the Tokyo Marathon… and I am hurting today. (13:50) A war with Iran broke out while I was overseas. Here we go. (23:30) Paramount won. They got Warner Bros Discovery for a nice $110 billion. Paramount will turn HBO and Paramount+ into a mega streaming service. It will have a load of sports offerings. And Netflix leaves with $2.8 billion. (33:01) Review: Armed with Only a Camera. (37:22) The Padres are for sale, that we knew. Now we know who some of the bidders are. (45:40) The Athletics ballpark in Las Vegas is being built, but I cannot let them say some of these things without a response. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The That is the nothing personal word of the day. Today is Tuesday, March 3rd,
0:45.1	2026. Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours.
0:52.1	Arrigato means thank you. It's a word that I said hundreds of times over the past few days.
1:00.0	Thank you for staying with me over the past four days as I disappeared to a magical place.
1:07.0	I flew to Tokyo.
1:09.0	You leave Thursday morning and you get there Friday night.
1:12.6	Happened to me my birthday Thursday, so I only had a 10-hour birthday as Tokyo was 14 hours ahead.
1:20.6	So you get on the plane and all of a sudden, puff, you've lost 14 hours.
1:24.6	Now it is true, you get them back.
1:26.6	People get confused by that when you travel internationally.
1:30.6	Whatever time you lose, I promise you,
1:33.3	you get back when you get home.
1:36.5	When you leave, side note, I left Monday at 5.30 p.m.
1:42.3	And you get home same day at 6.30 p.m. That's right. You fly all the way back in only an hour.
1:51.0	That's time for you. So I went to Tokyo. I had a plan, Koka. It was always a good plan.
1:58.4	10 months ago, it was a thank God through Fit International, a good plan. Ten months ago, it was a, thank God, through Fit International, a marathon
2:04.6	travel company, and through great charities, I was able to secure a bib in Tokyo. My plan was to train
2:12.1	and go to the city and the country I love and be ready to run a marathon and then life happened and I think that
2:20.9	most of you are aware of what happened and and how I'm dealing with with a daughter who is ill and
2:29.1	I didn't train and one of the things I've learned over the years, I've been doing marathons for 30 years. I started in 1996, Koka, and I've done a lot of them. And you have to earn the starting line. It's something Dave McGilvery, the race director of the Boston Marathon, always had told me, earn the start line, and then that will carry you to the finish line i did not
2:53.4	earn the starting line coke i got to to Tokyo friday night haven't run one five mile run since
3:01.1	september just absolute absurdity shameful to take a starting line with that as your condition.
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