Roger Goodell is WRONG for banning reporters from locker rooms; Nerlens Noel suing LeBron James' buddy Rich Paul (8/25)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘megalomaniac’ as in the NFL as in new rules were released via a memo from the league that will prevent the media from entering the locker room. Team-affiliated media members are allowed in. All other media members, sorry. Why would Roger Goodell allow this? (12:55) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about Nerlens Noel suing agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports. Uh oh. Paul is the agent and best friend of LeBron James. Klutch runs the league. (28:20) Review: Malice at the Palace. (37:45) NPPOD. (40:50) The St. Louis Cardinals made some news yesterday. Ace Jack Flaherty left the game with injury and it looks like it’s a shoulder problem. The team also signed Yadier Molina to another 1-year, $10M deal. A farewell tour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.1	Megalow Maniac. Do you know that word? Megalow Maniac is the nothing personal word of the day.
0:57.2	Today is Wednesday, August 25th, 2021. I want to define Megalow Maniac for you.
1:06.0	Megalow Maniac is a pathological egoist. That is someone with a psychological disorder
1:14.8	with symptoms like delusions of grandeur and an obsession with power.
1:22.0	Do you like that? We can also use the word Megalow Maniac more informally for people who
1:26.8	behave as if they're convinced of their absolute power and greatness. Your garden variety ego
1:34.7	maniac might be self-centered, okay, and overconfident, definitely, but a little softy compared with the
1:44.0	Megalow Maniac who wants to control the world. I'm not talking about me. I'm an ego maniac, I would say.
1:52.8	I'm not a megalomaniac. Roderick Adele is a megalomaniac. I would assume he would acknowledge that fact.
2:05.3	I don't know that being a megalomaniac is necessarily a negative. I don't know that I would use that
2:11.6	in the pejorative sense. I don't think it's great. A megalomaniac narcissist. How about that? A megal
2:19.6	narcissist? God, I've been accused of being so many things. I think I have narcissistic tendencies,
2:26.4	actually. I took one of those tests one time to see whether I was a sociopath and I came like one
2:34.5	or two traits away. So I'm in the clear, but it was a little closer than I would have expected it.
2:42.6	I think it all comes from not being that emotional and having confidence and knowing what you want
2:48.9	to know and how to get what you want and then getting what you want, enough times that you
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