How Shane Battier Learned to Lead, and Shut the F*** Up (PTFO Vault)
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
LeBron called him the smartest hooper alive. Coach K called him an alien. Obama called him for a Hall-of-Fame pickup game (and a historic BBQ). But two-time NBA champion Shane Battier has been measuring the immeasurable inflection points of his career all along — from growing up "mixed, tall and poor"; to puking at Duke, guarding Kobe and witnessing LeBron's GOAT-defining game; to failing at ESPN and building a cabinet of relationships… including his therapist. Pablo cracks open the brain of the legend known as Lego, to find out if he really is human after all. Plus: Patrennessy, Laptop magazine and karaoke. Lots of karaoke.
(This episode originally aired June 5, 2025.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's me, Pablo. |
| 0:02.8 | So we've done, doing the math, 327 episodes of Pablo Torre finds out since we launched in September, 2023. |
| 0:12.1 | And it is the end of 2025. |
| 0:14.8 | And I could not be prouder of our tiny little and extremely overworked newsroom that has created this |
| 0:24.1 | bizarre sports news magazine show that is television but also obviously an audio first podcast |
| 0:31.7 | because we've punched above our weight i think especially this year but the stuff that we did before, the previous, you know, hundreds of episodes, |
| 0:41.4 | we have some favorites that we are now concerned that you maybe have not heard yet, |
| 0:46.5 | or maybe don't realize, or even better, when you listen to it a second time. |
| 0:50.7 | And so during the holiday break, we're bringing you our favorites from the PTFO Vault. |
| 0:55.5 | And we also have a newsletter, by the way, www.pablo.com, where I'll be doing some stuff over the |
| 1:00.6 | holiday break, especially. Please subscribe and support our approach to independent sports |
| 1:04.7 | journalism. But most of all, thank you. Thank you for making this show, not just a weird |
| 1:10.3 | experiment, but a community of people who support the kind of mission that we're on to hold to account extraordinarily rich and powerful people while also taste testing, you know, athlete branded weed. We contain multitudes, as does our vault. Please enjoy. |
| 1:27.7 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 1:29.8 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 1:48.4 | Right after the sad. right after this ad right after this ad |
| 1:52.5 | i love when a guest has a notebook |
| 1:58.7 | i do |
| 2:00.6 | i feel like such a boomer i mean i i'm getting old i'm |
| 2:04.5 | 46 years old i forget things but if i write it down i have notebooks upon notebooks of of just |
| 2:09.6 | maxims and quotes if i put it in my phone it's gone you have the good kind of pen too by the way that |
| 2:14.9 | thin oh the the uh the the uh the muji pen not a mojee pen that's right that's veteran savvy the finer thing that too, by the way, that thin. Oh, the, the, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, |
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