NPDS - So You Wanna Talk to Samson Wednesday! Forcing owners to sell! Taxes for athletes! WNBA leverage? (Episode 1320 Hour 2)

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Dan Le Batard

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4.9 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Leave your message at 631-377-4869 for a chance to make it onto the show! It’s So You Wanna Talk to Samson Wednesday! First up, someone asked me about an owner being forced out. What would it take? How does it work? (10:00) Someone asked me about how taxes work for athletes. Do they have to play in games to be taxed? Just show up? (15:30) A correction for Coca? It can’t be! (20:00) Why has no one asked Mookie Betts about that early season sickness? He lost a lot of weight. He has not been himself this year. (25:30) Pat McAfee wanted to step up and pay for budget cuts. Hmm. (37:00) What is a workout like for a player that wants to be signed in season? The Phillies signed David Robertson recently. How did that look? (43:00) We have a question about the WNBA and CBA negotiations. Does expansion mean anything for leverage? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.8	entrepreneurs like you. I'm going to Welcome back to nothing personal on this Wednesday, July the 23rd, 2025.
1:11.3	Wednesday, that should mean something to you
1:13.7	because since the start of June
1:15.3	when we went to two hours,
1:17.2	Wednesday's second hour is always
1:19.2	so you want to talk to Samson.
1:21.5	So you want to talk to Samson.
1:23.3	Coca, play it.
1:24.7	You know what I want.
1:28.8	I want to talk to Samson.
1:32.1	For longtime listeners of nothing personal,
1:34.3	that should just put a smile on your face the way it does to mine.
1:37.9	That's from the movie Half-Baked for all of the new listeners,
1:40.9	and there's so many of you.
1:41.8	Thank you for joining us on this unbelievable journey. Go watch the movie Half-Baked. Try to be at least 69% baked when you do.
1:50.6	Enjoy it. Although if you don't get baked, that's fine. You're still going to laugh at the movie.
1:54.6	Half-baked one. Character named Samson, you want to talk. Here I am. Not only can you
2:00.0	contact me on Twitter at David P. Sampson or X,
2:02.8	you can contact me at David Sampsonpodcast.com, send an email with a question.
2:09.5	But we started something when we do a full hour of this now every week. We started something.
2:14.7	It's a phone number. It's an actual phone number.
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