Mr. President’s Mind: How Shane Battier Learned to Lead (and Shut the F*** Up)
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 5 June 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.
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| 0:32.1 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.3 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. Right after this ad. |
| 1:03.3 | I love when a guest has a notebook. |
| 1:05.1 | I do. |
| 1:07.0 | I feel like such a boomer. |
| 1:08.9 | I mean, I'm getting old. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm 46 years old. |
| 1:10.6 | I forget things. |
| 1:11.5 | But if I write it down, |
| 1:10.5 | I have notebooks upon notebooks of just 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 thin. Oh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, veteran savvy. The finer things in life. But I wonder if you've used that Mugi pen to write down at any point. |
| 1:30.6 | The quote I wanted to actually start with, which is, of course, from Mike Shostoevsky, Coach K, head coach of your Duke Blue Doubles, who said this, quote, Shane was an alien. |
| 1:42.0 | I wanted at the end of his career to crack his head open and see if he was really human. |
| 1:48.3 | End quote. |
| 1:49.5 | I think that's a compliment. |
| 1:51.9 | Pablo, I was psycho. |
| 1:53.5 | I was a psycho, a psychotic, neurotic person in my time at Duke. |
| 2:01.9 | And great steel by Forte. |
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