WEBVTT - David Samson 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.799 Steve Smith Senior and i' and this is cut to it. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.919 Good do it, Good do it. They're getting down to 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.720 do it. Good do it. We asked the questions you 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.200 always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:29.840 cut to it. You ain't heard am about it, then 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:39.040 we're about to let you know. It's all. Welcome to 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.000 the cut to a podcast. Man, it's a guy who 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:48.519 um man, he's done everything he's been uh Morgan Stanley, investor, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:59.400 UM executive vice president of the formally Montreal exposed. Um, 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.040 and you just done everything right and then now you're 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.880 working as a baseball analyst. I just want to say, 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:11.840 welcome to the Cut to a Podcast. David SAMs. I 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.199 appreciate that. I'm only fifty four, so I would say 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.959 I'm only on the sixth hole, so I have not 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.200 done everything at all. I'm that perspective. I like that 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.840 I'm just getting started. I like, I'm not gonna argue 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:29.440 with you. I'm sorry. Yeah, Well, um, are you ready 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:34.440 for this? Oh? I am ready? Give me all you got? Well, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.280 that's all you're gonna get there, all right, here we go, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.640 all right, hey if you want aloud? Oh would you 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:47.000 keep working in your current position or profession? Yeah. So 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.400 I love what I do, and I do it because 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.200 I love it, So I have I've been lucky, and 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.440 that after law school, I started a company over in 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.080 Europe delivering newspapers and I was twenty five years old, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.360 and that I loved every moment I was there, even 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.960 when the Internet started and all of a sudden nobody 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.920 would buy regular papers anymore. I said, all right, let 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.799 me try something else. So I went to Wall Street. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:11.840 And when I was on Wall Street, I loved it. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.160 I was so proud to be at Morgan Stanley and 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.560 enjoyed the work I was doing. And then I moved 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.960 into baseball, and I loved it. I had a great 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.600 time running the Expos, and then I had a great 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.440 time for sixteen years with the Marlins Wonder World Series 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.960 and built the ballpark and helped the owners sell the 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.840 team to Jeter, who just got fired. And I love 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:35.480 doing that baseball. I was super excited to see what 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.800 the next chapter was, and I got an agent, and 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.239 then I got a job at CBS, and I have 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.680 my own show called Nothing Personal with David Sampson, where 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:47.200 I can talk about whatever I want. David, Um, this 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.480 is my show. Slow down like this just the icebreaker, 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:56.079 bro I don't I don't like we was done like 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.799 he don't let me at all. That's a record a 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:04.639 part as right now. We just everything right listen, I'm driving. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.880 Get your ass in the back seat. Okay, you ain't tall. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.200 I looked you up, so you were you gonna you 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.760 got a little little car seat. Just buckle up, all right, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.280 we got your crustable, Well, get your apple sauce. Just hey, 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.640 we'll get there. I'll tell you when we get there. Okay, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.639 all right, Paul's all right, here we go. What kind 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:35.640 of dog never bites a full one? No hot dog? Bro. See, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.720 we're just in an icebreaker section right there. We're just 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.560 trying to loosen you up. Okay, you're you're trying to 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:45.200 care cancer. Were just trying to we just I mean, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.000 I asked what you going a lot of He's like no, 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.080 And here's why, man, I just I was gonna say 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.560 I would still doing my job because I think I've 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.800 already hit the lotto. But you didn't even give me 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:00.600 a chance to because you went off way yonder. Yeah, 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.760 I mean it was I got I was like, damn, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.280 I can't ask him about about when he founded his 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:13.400 Companye Travels Fast, but he already went into it. We 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.640 was gonna use in London. Damn it can you can 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:21.680 you get on the plane first? All right? What have 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:29.279 you given up on something? When I stopped growing, I 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.640 gave up on being able to dunk on a regulation hoop. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.440 I'm right there with you. Hey, I'm right there with you. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.880 How tall are you? Actually? Five five? I'm five nine 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:49.320 three four? I'm five four and three quarters. Now there 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.360 the podcast perfect because you always got a round up. 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:58.400 You got around up. He did. He got convicted. He 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:04.800 was Actually it's one of the eight, he said. But 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.240 then when I said, he was like, damn, I'm convicted? 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.680 All right? Hey, where are you from in a place 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:19.160 you call your hometown? I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.920 and New York is my home? Do tail? What? Why 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.200 are you claiming New York? Well? I moved there when 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.080 I was five and I lived there really the entire 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.159 my entire life, except Florida for eighteen years when I 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:40.640 was running the Marlins. Well, I mean you kind of 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.719 stumped me on now because I was really gonna say, like, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.200 how was it in Wisconsin? I've been in Wisconsin a 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:49.520 few times. Yeah, how's your upbringing in Wisconsin? How that's 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:54.520 why they moved to New York? Hey, what you remember? Well? 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.559 My upbringing Wisconsin was fraught with parents who were fighting 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.400 so much they finally divorced. And then I moved to 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.359 New York with my mom. But I went back to 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.240 Wisconsin for summer camp. I went back for college. I'm 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.200 a badger, so I happened to love Wisconsin. Oh. You 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.720 you guys just got a new office coordinator who used 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.680 uh Bobby Ingram. He used to be my wife receiver's coach. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.920 He's a good dude. So in New York, how was 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:26.400 your upbringing? Lucky? I need some texture on that. Oh, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.680 I just I don't want to talk too much, So 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.960 I'm I'm going now to now you can Now you 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.880 can talk. Now you can go the ice breakers. You 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.520 you can't tell me your life story after the first question. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.840 I was born on third base, but knew I didn't 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.760 hit a triple, and I've spent my whole life trying 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:49.560 to make sure that I earned my way home. Wow, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:57.480 that was all that was, like the very poetic tupac 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.479 esc I's trying to figure out what was I born 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:09.200 on first or second? I was born in seven? N God, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.200 this is about to be hilarious. I like David. He 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:16.080 is spunky. You got so fire too. You've caused a 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:21.480 lot of trouble your life average, Yeah, but you know what, 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.520 I've never been punched and I've never thrown a punch 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.040 in my whole life because I've been able to talk 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.560 my way out of every pickle I've been in, and 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.040 there been a lot of them. Really, when's the last 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:42.120 time you've been in a pickle? The coast? Is the 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.440 last time you at the grocery store three days ago? 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.239 Know what what happened? Was it in the produce section 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:55.680 trying to get those melons? So listen, if you're gonna 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.640 feel every goddamn apocado, then you're gonna have to buy 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.840 them all. And I'm saying, is that pre COVID or 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.360 post covid? What is it? What is it? What is 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:11.760 this anchor? I love your heads at pre COVID. For me, 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.560 I've been the hand sanitizer guy. People are just catching 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.040 up to me now. So I've been a hand sandy guy. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.320 In my entire life, I'm not a big germ guy. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.120 And I was in a job where I had to 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.040 shake hands with people every day all day. So I 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.400 was doing Howie Mandel before he was, I was a 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.600 major fist guy. All right, let's go back to these avocados. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.280 Why so you I'm telling you this dude is a firecracker. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:42.880 Why are you with people in the produce? What happened? 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.360 Because I'm trying to get It's simple. I'm trying to 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:52.200 get produced. I'm trying to get avocados and onions, and 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.520 I'm trying to get in and out right. I don't 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.880 want to ditherer. I've got shipped to do right. And 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.680 so there's people touching every bit of produce. Hold on, 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:08.160 hold on, Davis, do you understand if you just grabbed 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.760 the first one avocado, you can have avocado that is 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:15.120 not usable all And if you plan on using that 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:20.240 tonight and it is not right, you're disappointed. I can 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.400 choose an avocado with my eye. You can tell which 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.679 ones are softer and which ones aren't. That is incorrect, 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.360 and I disagree. Being a guy who cooks, you cannot tell. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.360 Because I've I was like oh, I think that's a 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.320 good when I was like, wait a week till that 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.280 was ready. Or you get one that looks great and 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.840 you touching him and your damn hen and it almost 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.800 sinks into it. So how you know? I'm not lying? Though? 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.240 I know? But aren't you a courteous avocado picker? Do 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.520 you take up the entire section of the hassa avocados, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.280 sort of covering it like batman as you try to 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.839 find the one you want, or do you stand a 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.760 one side and let a little five ft five guy 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.640 just get in a little bit on the right and 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.560 choose his own avocados? Which guy are you? Actually? I'm 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.160 the guy who does not want any confrontation and I 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.800 don't want you to hover over me, so I tried 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.480 to I try to give you the same courtesy that 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.560 you're giving me, which is I don't want to talk 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.880 to you, and I don't really care what you want 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.120 to talk about. I'm just in here to get my 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.760 I'm just trying to make tableside go out. No, No, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.760 here's what I'm trying to do. I'm just I just 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.000 trying to do my hunty. I'm just trying to get 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.080 some honey. So I gotta do the honey dude list, right, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.600 I'm not interested in what you got going on. I'm 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.439 not trying to invade in your privacy. I don't want 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.440 your assistance. Don't ask me where something is because I 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.120 don't work there. I don't have the outfit that looks 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.240 like I worked there. I don't. I don't, So I'm 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.520 the guy that sits over to the side. I actually 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.840 sometimes will put my card over there and walk over 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.560 so I could just grab what I need to grabbing 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.400 them back because I got a list of stuff I 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:08.480 need to get in get out. So okay, So you know, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.360 you list on your phone or do you write it 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.960 on paper? If my wife texted, I'll have them on 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.079 my phone, but I prefer paper because I can check 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.600 it off, because you know, because you know, sometimes you 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.760 can't find everything at that one, you know, with with 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.280 food shortages and all that. You know, I don't understand. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.840 But so you gotta go here and then go there, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.240 and um, but I get a lot of a D 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:36.120 D in them in the grocery store, like I'm a ooh, 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.760 and I got like what's that? Oh that looks good. Yeah, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.760 I definitely can't go there when you're hungry. That's man, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.920 I didn't shot. Is there any worse feeling than getting 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.640 home thinking that you really did something good, that you 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.280 took care of the entire honeydoo list, and you missed 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.559 the most important thing you got you got the wrong thing, Like, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.720 don't get that you're supposed to get the ten minute quick. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:04.079 Oh it's not the thirty guy I've got, So I'll 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.839 just FaceTime listen. Is this the one that you want? 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.960 Or you know it's not making sure? Here's the worst. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.800 It's like when there's like one little word that's off 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.880 but they say a particular brand, You're like, they don't 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.480 have that brand, and now you gotta pivot and you 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.880 gotta figure. You gotta make an executive decision. But then 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.840 you know the executive decision you mess up, then they 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.120 then you're gonna get mad. Then they you get mad 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:31.880 at them, Like I don't had to go. I got 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.080 the number one. I came home one day thinking I 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.760 was doing something so nice, buying some Starbucks Pikes Place 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.840 coffee from the grocery store, and so I see it 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.800 and there's not a lot of supply, so I buy 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.120 like the remaining four packages that are about the eight 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.600 inches high packages come back and show them. And then 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.680 I'm totally summarily dismissed, not like a huge thank you 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.960 and like, hey, do you want to go upstairs or something? 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.800 You realize that that's the caffeinated you got the decaf 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.720 And I said, where does it say that? See that? 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.040 And she's like, it's right there, you idiot. Well maybe 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.280 I went to Goodwill. Maybe you didn't clap nothing at 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:23.720 night at the time, My man, what do you say? 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.000 I said, yes I did. I was just alone at 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.800 the time. I didn't catch that last Here's why he 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.960 missed the decaf because it was probably on the top 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:39.360 shelf and he just grabbed it. Cut to it, un Blue, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.920 what'd you stay up all night thinking of short chokes? 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.400 H I'm short too, so I communal space. I'm speaking 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.040 from experience. How do we get here? Hey? That's a 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.200 few Hey, that's a few times. I look around, like, yeah, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.640 ain't boy catching me trying to jump up for this ship? 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:06.640 I saw Steve trying to get on. It's a boomerang, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:12.120 bo you ain't catching me slipping. I'll be like favre 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.760 three words in the grocery store are excuse me? I 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.880 try to ask them to reach for something that I 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:25.080 can't reach this. Hey, I've been right there. Hey, my man, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.480 your help. He's like, what do you need? I said, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.440 man up there? A few times it's kind of like, 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.000 you know, a few times you think they think they're 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.880 gonna say something, and then they know it's me and 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.760 they're like, yeah, I'm not rolling this dice. But I 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.880 know I'm short. I'm okay with it, doesn't bother me. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.760 But you gonna catch me trying to jump up there 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.560 for that ship. I got time for that shot. But 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.160 in your own home, do you do that? Oh? Absolutely, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:57.680 so I actually had something. I actually do have a 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.880 step stool in my closet because I my shoes up top. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.680 But sometimes when I'm feeling good, I'll spring up there. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.560 But here's the one time I did. I did. I 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.080 did it the other day. I springing up there and 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.360 got one the top box and otherwise came hit me 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.920 in the face. I said, that's what I need to 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.480 use the damn stool. I've had That exact thing happened 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.840 to me. Or what's worse is you jump up, one 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.320 of them comes down, but by accident you push one 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.800 of them further back. You have that I have step 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.160 stools in every closet and upstairs, downstairs, everywhere. But sometimes 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.040 it's just a game because I'm too lazy to get 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.520 the steps stool, so I jump up to get something 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.280 and then I end up getting the steps stool. See, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.240 these are the intangibles that I'm sure you had running 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.560 an MLB franchise. Right here, this is where it came 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.400 into play. You should have seen me talking to Gean 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.720 Carlos Stanton. We had some fun times the two of us. Man. Listen, 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.800 I just let's just go right into your crazy career. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.120 Like you know you said, first Company delivered an New 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:04.680 York Times Berry and also Wall Street Journal um to 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:09.080 Europe on the same day. Basis what why is what 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.200 is so unique about that? Because of people today, you know, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.800 kids today, people today, technologists. It's just it's there. So 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.480 that doesn't sound like anything unique. Can have those three 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:25.160 tabs open seconds, I mean, you get you you can 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.920 have it on. You know, you can get Wall Street 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.360 Journal for free, you know, for for for a week 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.760 or thirty days and cancel it before they charge you. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:39.200 So you know that I've done that several times. Man, 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.600 you are the target market. Are a million other people 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.320 who cancel stuff like the old Columbia House when you 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.840 get a few c ds and then cancel it ten 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.880 for one ninety nine. Yeah yeah, I remember. And then 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.640 if you try to steal get me. I canceled my 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.560 debit card and get a new one, so I know 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:01.320 all the tricks of the trade. Lost that one. You 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.680 can charge that new credit, can charge that old crack 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.560 to getting a new one. I'm talking. I want a 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:11.040 whole new number number moth yea. I will no cross over. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.640 Remember when Netflix first started, and it was you got 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.520 you put movies in your queue and they would send 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.920 you DVDs. I get a new one, right, but you 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.360 could get a new one only when you returned one 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.040 that you watched. And sometimes you'd move stuff up the 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.080 queue because you really wanted to see that he had 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.600 to return something. People, it's just far and so thirty 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.080 years ago. I hate to say it to the audience, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:35.840 but I do this on nothing personal all the time. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.800 It's thirty years ago. The only way to get sports 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.640 scores in Europe with something called the International Herald Tribune, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.439 which was a newspaper that was owned by both the 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.360 Washington Post in the New York Times, and the sports 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.320 part of that paper gave you scores of games that 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.000 were a day old. And so if you wanted scores 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.320 of your favorite team, who were only getting them a 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.480 day late, a day late from the state, or a 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:04.120 day late from Europe, because technically that would be two 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.639 days late. Oh I love for your heads at so 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.800 Sunday night scores would be in the Tuesday Herald Tribune 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.880 correct two days late. So in nineties seven, you you 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.240 did Morgan Stanley. However, in that four year spend, what 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.800 what did you learn and how did the business go? 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.720 And why you know? Did you sell? It? Just disappear? 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:26.960 Like tell me, tell me about it, like you start 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:31.680 sell company like that? And what I did is I 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.919 I went to a different city, just say Paris or 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.080 London or Geneva or Brussels, and I would go and 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.040 try to find Americans who are living there, like go 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:42.760 to chambers of commerce, and I would go to all 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.360 the hotels and I would deliver papers and have them 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.720 sold to their customers. And I even did home delivery 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.640 to ex pats who are living overseas. But think about 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.399 the business. All my inventory was either sold or thrown 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.480 away every week because when you're doing the Sunday Times, 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.200 once the papers are delivered, you're onto the next newspaper. 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.280 And when I started doing daily deliveries, I never had 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.840 excess inventory because you buy the papers that you know 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.040 you're gonna sell and then you're done. And what happened 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.080 is in that period, the Internet really got going, and 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.600 I summarily dismissed it because I made so much money 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.200 from people who loved getting the New York Times inc 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.679 on their fingers when they were reading the paper. And 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.520 I said, no one's gonna read the newspaper on a screen. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.240 It's just not gonna happen. And I was in Asia 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.360 starting to deliver papers there, and I flew on a plane. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.439 Talk about being gregarious. I flew on a plane and 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.520 started talking with the guy who worked at Morgan Stanley 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.639 and I told him what I was doing, and I was, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.359 you know, twenty eight years old, and he said, listen, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.679 if you ever want to come to Wall Street, just 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.560 call me. So when I saw that this business was 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.280 gonna end, literally gonna disappear, I gave him a call 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:56.280 and he hired me. So I was the only non 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.800 NBA to work on that side of Morgan Stanley and 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:06.520 had a great, great time. 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What led you to hop on an 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:49.680 airplane to go to Asia when you were doing so 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.200 well in in Brussels and London, all those all those 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:58.000 different places that were transient through um they do the 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.760 year old um train and through through the different avenues. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.080 It's kind of like living in the South where you 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.200 know live. We live here in Charlotte and you go, 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.320 you know, growing up in l A, I go five hours, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.760 I've been twenty miles outside, you know, with traffic, I've 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.400 been twenty miles outside of my house. But here in Charlotte. 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:19.080 You go, you know, you go two or three hours. 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:21.679 You're depending on which route you go to South Carolina. 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.840 You can hit Virginia, you can hit Tennessee, you can 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:28.400 hit Atlanta, I mean Georgia. So there's so many different places. 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:30.760 What what led you to jump on a plane to 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.639 go to Asia when you have so many different people? 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:38.040 You still have Italy, um, all these different places. What 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:42.520 why Asia? Because someone approached me and said, can you 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.040 help with home delivery of newspapers in Asia? You seem 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.000 to know how to get this done, and so I 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.000 was hired to go there and build up a company 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.480 in Asia. So did you eventually sell your company or 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.399 just it went away? It just disappears. So when you 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.359 stop think about it, I was I was. I was 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.199 by myself, and I had newspapers that I would buy 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.440 from the New York Times and then have them delivered 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.280 to Kennedy, put on a cargo plane and fly to 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:08.720 Europe and then from Paris they fly all over the 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.480 country in the world. And one day I stopped putting 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:16.160 the papers on the plane. So it's crazy. The way 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:20.280 that technology is advanced. You were physically delivering, so you 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:25.040 were so you were in London. Okay, I'm a visual guy. 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:29.480 So you were in London, you had a contact in 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:36.160 New York. Yes, it's a it's a great story which 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:38.000 we may or may not have time for. But yes, 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.320 I had a contact with the New York Times circulation 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:44.320 department that got the papers delivered from on Saturday nights 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:47.800 from the printing press right to Kennedy Airport and then 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:50.800 Kenny Airport. I mean there are pieces of paper they 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.560 how did they get on the plane. They were putting 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.960 palettes and they were put on Air France flight double 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:00.400 O nine which left at nine p m. S Saturday 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:03.919 night and landed at eight thirty a m. Sunday morning. 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:06.800 And then they get picked up by a newspaper delivery 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:12.280 truck and delivered to hotels and houses and apartments in Parish. 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.440 And some of the papers would connect to other cities 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:19.640 because Air France would fly from Paris as their hub 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:22.840 like FedEx Uses Memphis to all the other different places 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:28.560 in Europe. And so obviously were with pairs. You you 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:31.720 had some people in Um and some of the some 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.359 of the French colonies as well. Um one of that 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:40.760 paper as well. So on what was that so Um logos, 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:45.240 you know, different different African nations. Now we're uh French 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:50.200 colonies as well. So I never expanded to Africa, but 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:53.520 I did. I did Europe and Asia. Only what I 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:56.320 did I expanded into I went from the Sunday Times, 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:58.760