The Big Suey: The D In Fiduc (feat. David Samson)
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Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.

This segment is presented by LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash DLS. Terms and conditions apply. David Sampson of Nothing Personal will join us in moments here to discuss an assortment of different things. June Lee is reporting. How much do you imagine, Stugatz, that it costs right now to be a sports fan online?

on average, if you just want to get all of the subscriptions and streaming you need, on average, to watch the things the average sports fan wants to watch. Like $17? It's $17. What, a day? A month? Just for everything, yeah. What's the number? It is $4,000. What?!

So good. $785. You have gotten so much better at this game. Yes, no, a year. $4,000. Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Cost of watching all the sports you want, over or under $4,785. Because that...

hurts the consumer, the customer. The streaming age has created all sorts of oil wells for the teams, but they are really alienating their customer. What are you shaking your head about already, Samson? - Revenue's down for the teams. What are you talking about?

The lack of local TV revenue in baseball is hurting teams, not helping them. And is that $4,000? What are you talking about? You're going to tell me the NFL and basketball are not being aided by new streams of money that allow them to have bigger and better television contracts?

Yeah, their revenues are up and payroll is tied to revenues. So player payroll is up as well. It's totally tied into one another. And so are you talking about fans being hurt because they're paying more to watch games for the NFL? Yeah, that's what he's talking about. He's talking about the consumer, which you just bypassed. You hate the consumer. You don't care about the consumer.

consumer. I didn't say that. I just don't want you to miss sleep. Now, if you're saying that you have to buy every single streaming package to watch every local MLB team or local NBA team, that's not a fair way to do the comparison. But I didn't see the article, but I doubt that's what you're saying.

I'm saying that if you want to be an average sports fan and just watch whatever Red Sox games because you live in Boston, this has been done by June Lee more scientifically than you're presently doing it. And he's come up with an average sports fan cost of to watch your teams. If you want to watch the things that sports fans are crazy about, it's almost $5,000 a year.

But am I getting anything else? Are you saying that for Amazon to watch the Yankees on Friday night, I'm doing Apple, but I don't watch anything else on Apple, just sports? I'm also telling you, for the first time in my life, being a sports fan in this market, I have to pay extra to watch the Miami Heat and the Miami Marlins. And I made the decision not to because they acquired Terry Rozier and I'm a man of principle.

But also, that's probably undercutting it because as a soccer fan, if I like soccer in Portugal, I have to find another streamer that does that. If I want to watch Brazilian soccer, if I want to watch South American competition, I'm probably going well over $4,000. And if I want to watch it in HD or 4K, even more. It's super expensive to be able to watch all the sports that you want these days.

I'm sorry, what is your expectation? That you should just be able to get any sort of content you want for free? That's what it's been. Like, what? The reason you're going to get this hostility is because you're now trying to charge something for you that you were giving away for free. It's why this show is not behind a paywall. I did not. We did not want to do that to our fans. Well, consumers were never getting it for free. They didn't know it was on their cable bill.

Understood. I was paying for a cable package that gave me the RSN, but I still pay for that cable package, and now I have to pay an additional whatever to watch the Miami Heat and Miami Marlins. That's not something I've ever had to make a decision on. What is David arguing here? Because all I said was the existence of the streaming services has made it so basketball and football have all sorts of

extra sources of revenue. That cost has been put on the consumer. What do I have wrong? - It's happening, it happens in every industry across all time. Every company is looking to increase its revenue at the expense of the consumer. Whether there's a fuel surcharge, whether you go to the grocery store and every now bag costs a nickel. When you rent a car, there's a car tax. In Miami, there's the hotel tax.

for tourists or for people who prefer to be on the hour. So this is not a new concept by any stretch. All right, let me read this to you. In 2004, June Lee, he's a hardcore Boston fan. He would have spent $1,321 to follow the his or her favorite team. That includes tickets, TV access and merchandise today, 20 years later, that number is $4,785. That's a 262% jump. Uh,

Wages during that stretch have risen 87%. And June's a very good reporter. His whole new endeavor is speaking for the fan. I am sure he obsessed over this data.

Yeah, I'm not trying to sully his story or his data. I merely just want there to be proper context, which is to say that there have been increases. You say wages are up 82%. Exactly how is he calculating that? In what class? Is that an all-in? Or is it just the wages of those who would spend $1,000 20 years ago and have to spend

the $4,000 today. I just want to make sure always that there's apples to apples so that we can then compare it to industries, what your car costs, what it costs to go grocery shopping, what it costs to go on vacation. I just don't want sports to be singled out. - You want it to be apples to apples so that the owners can own all the apples.

not an owner. I never was an owner. I was a team president and you loved saying that I'm all for the owners. I have, I did something to the Red Sox today that already I have a problem. So I'm not exactly carrying the water for owners by any stretch. Okay. By some stretches, you are carrying water for owners. It's not an absolutist of by any stretch, but let's

play some video here and talk about the Boston Red Sox and their new ownership situation. Our video just went down for a second. I'll give you a thumbs up when we got it. Okay, so the Raphael Devers, that's good. Good timing on that. Why is he laughing, Samson? Well, he's laughing at our just situation. Video went down for a second. Like, that's not something that happens very often when you're watching major networks. He had the stop sign up. You were running through it. We were about to go into a disaster. Yeah.

But he's not going to lament your polish or lack thereof. He's a team player. Okay, to be clear, we're not going to lament my polish. I'm supposed to know that this means nothing works. Yes, generally that's right. I didn't have the universal signal for that. It's the same as rounding third. You would think we'd be

We'd be universal sign you think I'd be good at this point for knowing what the sign is for nothing around here works No, I mean there isn't a single facet of my life where two hands up mean go I'm being told we're lucky. We're on air right now. Yeah, historically we should just assume It's not working news. We're lucky to be alive right now. So why don't you just chill out bud? We're doing our best

Don't you have someone in your ear, Dan? Isn't someone saying, all right, video, go? Or is it just you? No, the funny thing about it is the last thing that was in my ear was we've got the Devers video. They have it. It just doesn't work. That part's unspoken. No one updated them. No one updated them. We know where it is. Step one. We know where it is. I can go in the back and watch it if I want. I just can't show it to anybody else. Text it to me. I'll play it from my phone. You know what? I'm going to go.

Don't look at it now. You tell me all about Stanton's return and Otani throwing 100 miles an hour. I'm going to go look and see if I can get that fixed real quick. It's game six. Cups in town. I do want to say one thing about Stanton because he played for the Yankees. I hope that your audience, I don't know what hour we're in because, Chris, you completely threw me off because it's Tuesday. So I got vacuum noise in the background. I had extra shows today, so...

I'm sorry if you hear that background noise, it doesn't normally happen because it's supposed to be Wednesday. But are you aware, if this is local, how much the Marlins are paying for Stanton over the next three years? - No. - No. - Nope. - So the Marlins are paying $10 million a year of Stanton's contract to the Yankees. Part of the trade that was done by Jeter when Jeter joined the Marlins

was to move Stanton to the Yankees. And if Stanton did not opt out of his deal, which he did not, and it continued on, the Marlins gave $30 million, but it was so far in the future that Marlins fans didn't even think about it.

But the future's today. The future has started. $10 million of your payroll, of the Marlins' payroll, is not on the field for the Marlins. It's on the field for the Yankees. And returned last night after only three rehab games and went two for four, hit the ball hard. Now, don't mention the fact the Yankees got shut out, won nothing in 11 innings. The fact is, Stanton is back. Are they paying anyone on their roster $10 million? No.

Yes, Sandy. Sandy Alcantara makes, I want to say 17, Stu Gotson, that they're trying to trade him, but he stinks so badly that they can't get anything other than Jordan Hicks, Harrison, like a number four prospect, and maybe another guy is the best they could get for Sandy, and they're trying to do better. Look at all those people, Toronto.

All these people not wanting to let Dan down. It's really a blessing. He looks at this as a curse when really, look at all that compassion. I don't think there's enough cooks in the kitchen. I trust the bald guy. We have budget problems at Metal Arts. The bald guy can fix it, man. Get Ethan out of there. You can tell Ethan's acting. Get out of there, Ethan. The bald guy can always fix it. Ethan can't possibly be helping the situation. Ass on. Even as a body double, it's not working for me. I just heard Ethan say special board. Special...

There are a lot of people. Everybody in the company right now is working on getting this video fixed so that we can simply play for you the Boston Red Sox organization saying again and again that the problem that they had with Raphael Devers was one of alignment. Right. 1-0 without him. Even budget cuts...

I'd posit that NASA doesn't look like that at the moment. I'm calling in resources from all over. I'm asking Tony Reale to grab all Panthers fans in the region, bring them into the control room, and see if we can get the video running. David, what did you do to the Red Sox this morning on Nothing Personal that got them upset? And what do you make of this entire situation? A really fascinating trade for a lot of different reasons. One of the most interesting, I think, because it signals that the Boston Red Sox ownership group is now a clown show. Okay.

Clown Show. A Clown Show? They've got the most trophies. This is your former guy, John Henry. They've got multiple World Series. We only got you one. He went to Boston and got you a four spot. And number two, the minute John Henry had to board his plane to Kansas City, game over. Devers was done. John does not like getting on a plane to Kansas City to talk to Devers.

Total turd in the clubhouse. And they said it in their press avail. They just said it under the word alignment. They said it under the word atmosphere, roster flexibility. It's all a bunch of poppycock. What they were saying is we're not going to have someone as selfish as Devers getting paid as much as he's getting paid. And the Giants were willing to pay it all because they put the D in Desperado.

So send them there. See you later. And we'll reallocate the money and keep going. Thank you very much. All right. I got a couple of questions. The D in Desperado. Where's that saying come from? Why did you use it there? And can you be careful with your language calling a human being a total turd? So the expression actually is a baseball expression and it's an inside baseball. That's the real problem you should have with what I did. It's turds in the clubhouse. And what you try to do is not have that.

And the reason is that if you have too many and they're spread out in the clubhouse, they can actually infect players who otherwise would be great both off and on the field. And so you're monitoring that. And what the Red Sox came out and said yesterday is we've got a lot of good young players.

And what we can't afford is to have those young players learn bad habits or learn not to be team players. And guess what? To do that, we are gonna show that if you are not gonna do what we say, goodbye.

And they got David Ortiz to agree. Of course, he's paid by them. And he came out and said, hey, they're the boss. He got Garrett Crochet, who just signed an extension, I grant you, but got Crochet to say, hey, good night and good luck, Rafi. See you later. We're good from here. David, as Marlins team president, I'm wondering, did you ever root for the Marlins to lose a postseason game because you wanted the series to come back home so you could make money for that game? I don't.

So no, is the short answer. No, I believe him because he would normally, normally if you've got him on that one, he would be honest. He's blushing a little bit. No, he would go in and laugh at you. What his tell on this one has been when you've got him, he's like, that's a great question. You got me. And then he answers it honestly. My guess is if he's ever rooted for his team to lose for a home game, he'd tell us.

no and i would the problem is we didn't get enough for the revenue during the playoffs the rules in baseball is it shared with other teams all the other teams central baseball it's shared with the umpires everyone gets a piece of the action so for me it was more important to get to the next round because that would mean more revenue for us the following season and then the possibility of winning it all but if you have a chance to win you win immediately now we played

the maximum number of home games in 03 that you can play right but i would not have rooted uh for to lose purposefully to get a home game uh if you're saying that oklahoma city is gonna throw game six in order to get a game seven i can assure you that is not the case what if you got all the revenue would your opinion change you probably would have rooted for the team big difference i know it is

So pro player, as you know, was a really big stadium. And so we were drawing sold out after the first wildcard game against Frisco. We sold out every other home game. And so you're talking about

millions and millions of dollars. - I know, I know. - So the answer is if we got all the revenue, we would want the extra home game. - Would you, in game six, 2003, Josh Beckett said you're about to win the World Series. Did you ever think, man, I hope he blows this 'cause winning in game seven would be so much more fun? Oh. - Not one time.

Because once you win a World Series, you can ride that for the rest of your life. And I was sitting there watching, saying, we're six outs away from being able to parlay this into a lifetime gig. So no, I didn't want to take the chance. David, just so that you know, according to June Lee's report, if you subscribe to every live service with sports, subscribe to YouTube, TV, MLB, TV,

league pass, NFL Sunday ticket, Peacock, Apple TV plus max, Amazon prime and Paramount. That alone is $2,600 a year. Uh, just starting there that it, I thought more than sports, Dan understood, but if you want just sports and don't want the other things that are in sports, you still have to pay for the sports. I don't, I, I,

do not understand what you are saying. You do understand what I'm saying. It's a lot of money, dude. Let's say you're just a sports fan and you don't want the studio from Apple TV. All you want is the games. That's what you have to pay to get all access to sports on television. But there are things throughout life that you have to pick and choose what you can afford and what you want to spend your money on. And you make choices, which is why Apple wants to give you all sorts of other content online.

of all shapes and sizes so that there's something for you that would be worth your while. So if your monthly cost for Apple TV, and I can't believe I'm doing a commercial for them, but if you're watching one original movie or one original show that you like and you get sports on top of that, it's already paid for itself in terms of your disposable income allocation. - I get what you're saying. We used to be able to get $30, so what? Now you get two. - Okay.

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can i do a quick economic primer here in in any sort of economy when there is inflation it causes things to inflate at different rates what you are saying and what he is saying is that the price to the consumer has gone up more than wages because there is wage inflation as well and what he's then saying is that makes it definitionally more unfair

And I'm arguing the opposite. Forget it, Dan. You can go back to your control room and lack of video because that'll be entertaining. At Levitard Show, put it on the poll. At Levitard Show, do you fall asleep when someone tries to give you a quick economic primer? At Levitard Show, time now to play. Nothing will get you there. Would you attend their funeral?

This here is an attempt to humanize David Sampson as he alienates the customer by giving him a series of questions about human beings who have died. Would he attend their funeral? What do you have, Mike, first as a nominee? Clark Spencer. Oh, wow. Miami Herald beat writer Clark Spencer, Greg Cody's close friend and horse racing syndicate advisor. Important detail.

I like Clark Spencer. He was a good journalist. Oh, no. If I were, no, even if I were in town in the same county, I would do it. But I wouldn't fly and I wouldn't drive far. But I would be sad. Same county. But you wouldn't go one county. So if you're in Dade and he's being buried or there's a service in Broward, you're not getting in traffic. Correct.

Correct. But in the same county, I would go to that. That's a great. What in Rome? But he'd be sad. Did you be dead? Did you go to the funeral of Juan Rodriguez, a former Sun Sentinel beat writer who did indeed die?

Yeah, he did. So a little thing that you can say that, uh, that we did as a Marlins organization, he was a beat writer. He died with two kids and we, uh, we paid for, uh, his kids complete education. Uh, we did a trust. We never told anyone until just now. That's nice. That is nice. But it's not what I asked you. It's an FYI. I wanted you to know that we know him. We think about him. Uh,

He was a reporter for the Sun Sentinel who tragically died with two young kids who are now, I assume, maybe out of college. But the trust was helpful to them, and I hope they're well. I did attend his funeral. Wow, big surprise there. So how many trusts like that have you created quietly over the years that people don't know about because they don't think you're a human being?

More than you. You know this. So more than you know. Well, that's why I asked. Yes. I would say that I'm currently the trustee to, I actually have the number, which is strange, but it was just tax time. So you have to have the number because the trust pay taxes. I'm a trustee to 11 trusts.

Are those all Marlins related? Quiet? No. Trusts? No, they're different trusts that have been created by people who wanted me to take care of it. Some were created for Marlins, Marlins related things that I still am a part of. But there are all sorts of different reasons. Trusts are meant to protect people from themselves or to help people attain the best they can be. And all of them are for education or other such items that can be helpful to people.

Put it on the poll, please. Do you associate David Sampson with trust? Can you go ahead and put on the poll at Levitard Show? That's not going to work out well for him. That's not going to work out well for him? What else? Eleven's a lot. How many of them are Marlins related? Do you not want to answer the question? It's just, Dan, it's serious stuff in that— It's a trust.

It's in the word. It's a fiduciary duty. You are responsible to help people. And so I take that extremely seriously. You put the D in fidouche. You put the douche in fidouche. Wait, you're a douche if you're a trustee? No, we're saying Dan. David, we're saying Dan. We're saying Dan. Omar Minaya.

He was just nice to me recently with something on Nothing Personal, and it got me thinking that I should think about whether I would maybe attend his funeral in case his name ever came up.

but it can't make up for the way it was when he was an opposing GM. So he's still a no. And there is a way to go from no to yes, but it requires an amount of rehab that Omar has not yet done. So I'm going to stay with no. Wait, did you just admit that this game is kind of infiltrating your life? You have interactions. You're like, I wonder if I would attend this person's funeral. How far does this person have to go? Mike, this game started because I think about this stuff before the game started.

I'm trying to sort of plan what my responsibilities are. How many more good interactions do you need to have with Omar Minaya before you would attend his funeral?

It has to be like eight in a row and then death has to happen almost immediately after the eighth because if it's all good interactions and then 30 years pass, I'm not going to the funeral. But eight good ones, then death. Death right after. Wait, so David, so for you, does it start with you attending someone's funeral and they do something that you no longer attend or do they have to do something to get you to the funeral? Like if you just meet a person, you're going to attend their funeral or you're not?

Oh, no. I'm at a straight no. Everybody's at no. So they have to earn your attendance. They don't lose your attendance. Remember, Billy, it's all time for me. It's all about time. We need to interrupt the proceedings right now in one of our most popular games because Tony Reale is ready, and he appears to have found Panther Central right here. Look at Tony Reale in the middle of South Florida. Yes. Look at all that positivity. My name is Casey Paquette.

This is Casey. And look at the hat here. We found them! We found them! Are we on the precipice of a Stanley Cup championship tonight? I believe so. I believe so. We're all going to stay up late and watch it. Stay up late and watch it. Whoa! The biggest endorsement. Where are you guys from? From Miami. Where are you from? Miami! Miami! Yeah, look at this guy. Miami! You see? So I found the positivity to you. When the Panthers score tonight, what are we going to do?

Let's go! Let's go! Yes, when they take a 1-0 lead. When they take a 1-0 lead. You put me on a mission impossible. You said you had no shot. What do I got right here? I got a shot. Look at these beautiful people. We want the cup. We want the cup. Get him going, Tony. We want the cup. We want the cup. Let's go. We want the cup. That's the next question. We want the cup. We want the cup. We want the cup. We want the cup.

Ask the guy not wearing, no, not him. How about we say the Cubs stays here? Well, he wants to say the Cubs stays here. I'm over here, my friend. All right, good at it. I know this is for hockey. You grew up playing hockey. I know it. I know it. Bellingham, get over here. Okay, so who's your favorite Panther?

All-time Scott Mellenby. All right. Ask somebody else. Don't ask anybody but that guy. Ask anybody else. I went to school, and I watched him play. When I was going to school, he was playing for the Badgers. Yes, okay. What's that? Come on down. Who's your favorite athlete then? Oh, my favorite athlete, I'd say Michael Vick. Michael Vick. All right. That one's loaded. Yeah. Wow. All right. Anybody? Predictions for tonight. Predictions.

What is the score going to be? Panthers, what? Edmonton, what? 9-0. 9-0. There it is. They gave us an 8. They gave us a 9. I was worried about 28-14, honestly. All right. We're going to fight some more. But here we are, the heart of Miami here, a walking tour. Mr. Casey, one last word for the Panthers tonight.

Yeah, Panthers, it's probably going to go into double or triple overtime. That's just the way this series has gone. It's going to be great. Dan's happy. Hoist the cup here tonight. Game seven. We know you're a great road team, but also you're a great home team. Real quick, what did I walk into here? This is a walking history tour, the Magic City. What is this? Yeah, so I do tours, and this is Miami-Dade College. College! Go!

Yes, college! What's the mascot of Miami Dade College? Sharks! All right, the Sharks. Ask them if David's paying for any of their college. We're taking a nice walk downtown, and we're looking at all the historic buildings and all the historic stories, and I'm sharing that with the class. So...

Dan is telling me right now, if it is 9-0, he's paying tuition for the young man who got the prediction score, right? Is that right? That is correct. I will agree to that deal. If it is indeed 9-0 tonight, I will agree to pay for his tuition. I think you're safe.

I'm not sure that Edmonton's going to go down that easily. Tony, do me a favor. Ask anybody other than him to tell me what the Edmonton blank are. Ask anyone there other than him. We have one trivia question. Yep. One trivia question. This is not for a scholarship, but it could be for something else. Look at everybody backing away. Are you getting them? Look at their feet backing away. Nobody wants a trivia question. Florida Panthers are playing the team from Edmonton. What is the name of the team from Edmonton? Oilers? My man!

Yes. What's your name? Hockey Town. There he is. You see? Hockey Town, USA. Thank you very much, everybody. Ask him to name N. Euler. You stop. There you go. It seems it's in charge of the trust.

Be good to yourselves and to each other. All right, guys? We're here. We're going to go to the firehouse right now. I'm going to ride the pole. Okay, get over there. Thank you. Be careful with that high-pressure air over there. There's a lot of high-pressure air over there. We will come back to Tony Reale in a second. David, I don't know if we're – go ahead and cue that happy music again because I want to continue that. What is that about high-pressure air? What is that? High-pressure system? No, behind him it said warning, high-pressure air on the truck in giant letters. Cliff Lloyd.

Oh, wow. Flip Floyd's a good one. He has to. No, we've had some recovery since he claims we didn't tell him he was going to be traded. And he was very anti me. And we had a problem. But we lived together in the same neighborhood for a long time up in Broward. And so there was an amount of recovery that then went away. And so then the clock got reset. So I'm back to a no. How about Al Avila? No. No.

All right. About Izzy Gutierrez. Ooh. Well, that depends on a few things happening here in the next few months or years. Oh, Jesus. But I would say that he's gone from a no-chance toilet pants to a definite possibility. But again, so as an example, were it to happen now, yes, of course. We're all at Metal Arts together. We're teammates. Just so you know.

I didn't hear you. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, just so you know. No, but you're a co-worker, so no matter what, I would attend your funeral. You're worth a county, yeah. Yeah, you're worth multiple counties. Not even a flight, because I would fly to Florida to do that for Izzy. Hmm.

but if Izzy dies when he's supposed to, you know, in his 90s or 100s, I would assume we won't be coworkers, and probably that would turn into a no. So that's a yes to a no. David, we have four minutes left, and I do want to crank through some things here quickly. So let's just play now that video does indeed work, and I'm not getting the stop sign from my third base coach. All of the times that they mentioned alignment as it referred to Rafael Devers while talking about what David is calling a total turd in the clubhouse.

alignment we couldn't find alignment you failed to reach alignment it just was that alignment alignment alignment of complete alignment we weren't able to achieve that alignment you never want to be in this situation um where you can't find alignment can't get to uh alignment failing to to reach that alignment i think um i also shoulder a significant responsibility here and uh

failing to reach that alignment. Ultimately, as Sam has pointed out, this kind of lack of alignment, we failed to reach that alignment. - Came to the conclusion that we did not have a full alignment, we moved on. - Wow, a lot there. David, what are your thoughts? And just put back up on the screen the incredibly sad background of the second person in that video so we can see it defeated. Not that guy, the other guy.

the sad alignment behind him, the misalignment behind him. He wants to simply promote what that is behind him. And instead we see that is an incredibly sad cubicle of concrete there in the bowels of Fenway Park. - No, so actually that's Craig Breslow, who is the chief baseball officer who is with the team. That's the manager's office.

where they would do a pre- and post-game avail. So that is actually the backdrop that they're obligated to have with MassMutual as the sponsor. But the rest of it, it's supposed to be a little closer, so you only get the back of it. But you mentioned Breslow, and I did find the reporting interesting on Carl Mosch, the player development guy who had been there since 2017, who got fired because he said of Breslow, while getting off a Zoom at the end,

He said, thanks, Brez, you bleeping stiff. And then he was immediately fired because he didn't know he was on a Zoom mic.

I'm sorry, Dan, with all the Zooms you do, if you were, as the person in charge of the company, if there were a Zoom with your employees and somebody, when the Zoom was over, said, levitard that turd, I hate him, you would just be like, oh, see you tomorrow at 9? Happens all the time, and I don't fire anybody. I don't fire anybody. Well, that's a you issue. Well, that's right. You're asking me that question. You know I'm not going to do that. But you are being critical of Breslow for firing that employee.

You're going to have David do it. You lose the rest of your staff if you don't fire that employee. Every one of them. I won't do it. And you'd have me do it. You'll have to do it. He would have you do it. You have to do it. I don't fire anybody. I'm right, Stu. That's correct. What do you think I keep you around for? Let's crank through these. You guys want to do this again? Burke, Bade, and Hop. Ah, the hopper. I like the hopper.

And I'd want to see whether it was an oversized casket because I haven't necessarily been to too many funerals of six-fivers. So that interests me because I always wondered if I'll be in like in a small casket because I don't want the extra leg room. So I may go just for casket.

sort of understanding and knowledge. I've never thought of what he's presently presenting to us, and now we only have a minute left, so I can't get to Otani throwing 100 miles an hour. I can't get to Stanton. I can't get to the Knicks. I can't get to Stephen A. Smith playing solitaire. But I can get to David's casket. You can't put him in a regular-sized casket. It would look ridiculous, correct? He's sliding all over the place. Yeah, he would take issue with paying full price.

No, it's not that. I just don't want to be stapled down. I want to be like you're on a ride, like a carnival ride. I like a casket that I fit in. But it would just sort of be, it wouldn't be a regulation casket, right? No. Would it be funded by tourist tax dollars? By people who use hotels by the hour, yes. Do you think you're going to be riding roller coasters in hell? I mean...

That would be fun. But I'll see you there, Stu. Yes, you will. And we'll both see your brials. How about that? See you guys later. See you later, David. At Levitard Show, put it on the poll, please. Does it sound fun to ride a roller coaster in hell? Yes or no?

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