Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What do Vladimir Putin, David Hasselhoff and a shadowy businessman named The Meat Baron have in common? The remains of a fan-owned German football club that sold its soul, got stuck in the middle of a war, then woke up from a $200 million nightmare... to the basement of the standings. Correspondent Bradley Campbell travels to Gelsenkirchen, a mining town where soccer never stopped — and salvation was always a piece of merch away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
0:01.8	I am Pablo Torre.
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0:08.4	And today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:11.6	I've been looking for freedom.
0:15.6	I've been looking so long.
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1:05.1	How's it going, ma'am?
1:07.0	Yeah, I'm all right, but you're finishing.
1:09.7	Is this lunch?
1:11.0	I'm going to hold of bar, which technically I guess is lunch right now.
1:14.5	Yeah, I've been tracking you across the office.
1:17.3	I am always rushing around from thing to thing.
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