Hippie, Hooper, Swimmer, Spy: The Basketball Coach Who Secretly Worked for the CIA

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

No, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are not a government psy-op. But Shaun Raviv from "Sports Explains the World" joins us to tell the story of a sports figure who actually was: The CIA sent Jay Mullen to Uganda, undercover, in the 1970s. His job was to spy on the Soviet Union. But when one of the most notorious dictators in world history made Mullen the head coach of the Ugandan national basketball team, a different mission presented itself. So did The Russian Hulk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:05.6	His comment to me was, well, I think I'd rather make history than teach it.
0:11.7	Right after this ad.
0:13.0	You're listening to talk with the bottom of your diaphragm now.
0:35.0	I'm trying to talk from my stomach.
0:36.0	He told me just the channel and talk like if I...
0:39.0	Like Boog.
0:40.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:41.0	Why, you sounded like Boog just now.
0:42.0	Yeah. Well, you sound like Boog just now. Yeah.
0:43.0	Well, you, you figured it out.
0:45.0	Hey.
0:46.0	Teach me.
0:47.0	You got it from the, from inside, from deep inside.
0:50.0	It's good to see you, Pablo.
0:52.0	You sound like you're straining. What are you doing? inside. It's good to see you, Pablo.
0:54.0	You sound like you're straining.
0:54.8	What are you doing?
0:56.2	I'm trying to start the episode. Okay, great.
0:56.9	Very good.
0:57.9	We have a voicemail.
0:59.1	Great.
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