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Le Batard & Friends Network

So You Wanna Talk Samson!? NBA ratings explosion! Do executives still reach out to me? Is the franchise tag bad? (Episode 1473 Hour 2)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Call us at 631-377-4869! So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about the NBA Finals ratings. Most watched NBA Finals since 1998!? (6:10) George Pickens will play on his franchise tag. Okay? (15:50) Do front office execs still speak with you now that you’re out of the league? (20:12) How does the MLB trade deadline work for a front office? Who is making the calls? Who is getting the calls? (30:30) Should coaches encourage players to acknowledge the other team when they lose? (36:00) How do mascots work? (43:10) Was there ever something I was able to do for a friend to get them through a rough time? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you. Welcome back to nothing personal.

0:37.7

I love Wednesdays.

0:39.3

You're going to hear tomorrow I love Thursdays.

0:41.0

I also love Mondays and Tuesdays.

0:42.9

I just love doing the show with you all each day.

0:45.6

We will have a show tomorrow,

0:47.6

but Wednesday second hour, which is where we are,

0:50.7

that means that Koka gets to press his favorite button you know what i want i want to talk to samson

1:02.0

so you want to talk to samson we should get some animation for that coca like some sort of bell and whistle that we have.

1:12.2

We've got the graphic with the phone number, 631-37-4869, which is a number that we give out for people to leave voicemails.

1:21.3

And then we'll answer some voicemail questions as well as other questions that we get.

1:26.7

But we should have some cool like animation maybe we could

1:30.1

have people getting half baked because the character samson's from half baked but maybe it could me

1:35.3

getting half baked maybe we could just have like a truman show camera on me like after my afternoon run

1:42.6

huh that would be interesting as an intro.

1:47.3

In any case, thank you all.

1:50.4

At David P. Sampson on X,

1:53.4

you get to me at David Sampson Podcast.com,

1:56.1

which is the website where you can find cool merch,

1:58.3

where you can find a document that has all our information on it,

2:02.3

and you get to me at that phone number with your voices.

2:06.1

It's really quite cool.

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