ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and politics

Channels with Peter Kafka

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Host of ESPN Daily, Pablo Torre, sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss the odd sports + politics + pandemic moment we’re in; he also talks about why he’s a sports journalist and not lawyer, and what it’s like to be a rare sight on TV. Morning Brew, the business newsletter publisher for millennials, is in talks to sell itself to Business Insider Featuring: Pablo Torre (@PabloTorre) TV Personality and host of ESPN Daily Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:42.6	Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. How are you? I hope you're well. I'm fine. I'm COVID fine. It's a phrase I I have stolen from someone. I'm now going to try to make my own. So don't tell anyone. I think this is a very good show. It's an interview with Pablo Torre from ESPN. We talked about sports, obviously, and the pandemic, obviously, and politics, obviously, because that's what you do. We also talk about why he's not a lawyer and what it means for him to be a first-generation
2:01.8	Filipino-American who's on TV. But first, I want to travel back in time to last month when I interviewed
2:07.5	Alex Lieberman. He's the CEO of Morning Brew. Also a very good chat, I think. We talked about how he
2:13.1	built this newsletter business five years ago, starting at college, how it's boomed since then
2:17.8	and his plans for the future.
2:19.7	And then at one point, I got to this part of the discussion.
2:23.4	Are you going to tell me that you've raised a pile of money in the next six months?
2:26.0	No.
2:27.0	Because?
2:28.0	No, we luckily don't have to.
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