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Le Batard & Friends Network

NPDS - So You Wanna Talk to Samson Wednesday! Utah private equity, Paramount update, MLB Draft Lottery, and more! (Episode 1389 Hour 2)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Call us and leave a voicemail at 631-377-4869 It’s a So You Wanna Talk to Samson Wednesday! We start things off with a question about Utah athletics and its new partnership with private equity. Here we go! (13:00) Paramount made another bid for Warner Bros. This is getting ugly. How high will Paramount go? What will Netflix do? (21:00) What is going on with the Astros? The team just sold its minor league teams to Diamond Holdings! What does this mean? (28:00) The White Sox won the draft lottery! The Rockies, the worst team in baseball, was ineligible for the lottery! (35:00) Why are the Marlins grievances not finished yet? What is baseball waiting for? (41:00) Chris Paul bobblehead nigh was canceled. (46:00) Will a new Rays ballpark be done by the start of the 2029 season? No. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome back to nothing personal on this random Wednesday in December.

0:41.9

And second hour means that coca gets to press a button.

0:45.8

You know what I want.

0:49.9

I want to talk to Samson.

0:53.0

No matter how badly your day is going right now, that music and that sound just has to make you feel good, doesn't it?

1:02.0

It has to feel good to know that you can watch a movie called Half Baked.

1:06.0

You can spend your afternoon, night, morning, getting half baked and watching a movie and

1:14.0

seeing a character named Samson.

1:15.6

And then you can figure out that Koka had this brilliant idea where if you call a phone

1:22.0

number, you'll get a voicemail that has my voice on it, not AI, and you leave a message, you may make the show.

1:30.4

And then there's even a graphic that we can show you.

1:34.6

So look at this graphic and look at this phone number.

1:37.7

So you want to talk to Samson every Wednesday, second hour?

1:41.8

631, 377, 48 six nine that number again is six

1:48.1

three one three seven seven that's DPS on your rotary phone four eight six nine nice

1:55.4

phone number coca do you know an amalgam is, coca?

2:01.6

Amalgam?

2:03.6

I like that word.

2:05.6

It covers all sorts of elves.

2:08.6

It lets you think that you can put a few things together and then somehow make an ingredient that helps everybody.

2:15.6

A lot of you have asked me, and I want to start with this,

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