How to Be a World-Famous Child Prodigy, with Golfer Michelle Wie West
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Michelle Wie was hyped as nothing short of the next Tiger Woods. As a kid, she was a global sensation: competing against not just adult women but the men, at PGA Tour events — signing seven-figure sponsorship deals in the process. But now, two decades later, Michelle tells Pablo what child stardom was really like, behind the scenes. And she appraises a career unlike any other.
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| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:38.6 | I loved it. Yeah, I loved hitting it further than the guys and then seeing the faces that they would make. |
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| 1:07.3 | Michelle, it's good to have you here. You are making history on this show. You are the first pregnant guest. Woo! To my knowledge, at least. Do your knowledge. No one else has disclosed it? You have. And I appreciate you being here under the circumstances. Thank you. Thank you. I'm very happy to be here. How many months? Six or seven? I don't know. I lost track. And you are feeling clearly good. Good enough to podcast today. Yeah. I'm feeling large and not in charge. Mostly, you know, being pregnant in the summer is like a beached whale. But you're a pro. You're a pro with this. This is number two. This is number two. Yeah. The last time I was pregnant, I was pregnant during COVID, so it was completely different. Life |
| 1:44.2 | stopped for me and everyone else. So we were just inside, chilling, you know, grateful that I had that |
| 1:50.5 | experience, but also, you know, it's fun being outside in the world. I am curious if you are already, |
| 1:57.3 | if you are clearly in the mode of like, I'm a mom, I'm a full-grown person, |
| 2:03.9 | or whether you also see yourself in some way like the rest of the world, I think, |
| 2:08.6 | continues to demand that you acknowledge, which is as the kid that you used to be. |
| 2:13.9 | Oh, no, I feel like a kid, raising a kid. |
| 2:42.7 | Yeah. to be. Oh, no. I feel like a kid, raising a kid. So the first thing I need you to know about Michelle Wee, who is now known as Michelle Wee West, |
| 2:47.8 | is that I first found out about her back when she was the most famous kid in all the sports. |
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