Samson Sit-Down: Rob Nelson | Founder of Big League Chew (9/4)
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
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🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:35.1 | Big league chew. Nothing personal word of the day. We have a Samson sit down. If you don't |
| 0:56.4 | know big league chew, of course, you know big league chew. Who doesn't? It's the greatest gum |
| 1:01.2 | that's ever been made. For whatever reason, Rob Nelson, the founder, the guy who invented it |
| 1:08.3 | is here with us. Please welcome Rob Nelson founder, the guy of big league chew. How are you, Rob? |
| 1:16.6 | Very well. Thanks. This is really fun. Big league chew, if you're in sports of any kind, |
| 1:23.2 | or you have children of any kind, or you have a proclivity toward jaw movement of any kind, |
| 1:29.5 | you know what big league chew is. It's shredded gum that has unbelievable lasting taste. It comes in |
| 1:36.0 | the funny, amazing, perfect package that sort of makes you feel like you're a professional when |
| 1:41.3 | you dig your fingers in and get it. But it was founded in the most interesting bizarre way. |
| 1:46.7 | And I want to get right to it. Rob Nelson, you were a professional baseball player. Is that right? |
| 1:52.1 | Well, yeah, marginally. I mean, I've got paid to be on the team, but truth be told, before we get |
| 1:57.3 | going, I won one game in three years with the Portland Mavericks. And I had, well, when I got out |
| 2:02.6 | of Cornell, I had three weeks in the standard spring training with the St. Louis Cardinals. The records |
| 2:07.9 | are nowhere to be seen because I never made it when they broke camp. So I ended up going overseas, |
| 2:13.5 | and I played in South Africa, I played in Australia, I played in England. I basically went to |
| 2:17.9 | countries where baseball wasn't a big deal. So I could be and it worked out just fine. But so to |
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