David Samson

Sure.

Hall of Famer.

That's what being a host is.

That's if you're trying to get him to open up and you're trying to get down deep into his emotions so there can be the tear shot with only one camera, then you got to start by at least saying, yeah, of course you're a Hall of Famer.

Let's talk about your parents.

And at one point you were not the fat bastard.

So yes, that was ESPN at one point.

It's just not that point today.

ESPN.

has been a line item at Disney for a while.

And what this line of succession has done, it's basically made Jimmy Pataro somewhat of a eunuch where he has to perform as a silo in a way that he's not gonna get the 20 million to get another Stephen A. Smith to the extent that that would even be something they'd want.

they're gonna have to perform as an entity that helps the overall stock price of Disney because they, the board, voted to bring in DeMauro.

And what his job is basically, run a company that will get us EPS, will get us earnings per share.

And so ESPN will have to be profitable.

They will have to find a way

The old days of cable and everything that Skipper did when they were printing money and they were the behemoth of getting every sports right live and just every anchor, everybody wanted to be at ESPN.

Those days are over and that's proven by who Disney named to succeed Bob Iger.

Well, first, Josh Harris must have great PR because you did not mention his name and he appears in there and he had to release a statement, which he did.

And of course, Steve Tisch released a statement where he wanted to make sure we all knew that it was adults who he was referring to, not children, because that is beyond the third rail if you're dealing with underage sex trafficking.

But if you're just dealing in your run of the mill, you know, Russian people who get paid by the hour, you know, let's not make ourselves crazy.