Mr. President’s Mind: How Shane Battier Learned To Lead (and Shut the F*** Up)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 45 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. • Subscribe to "Glue Guys" with Shane Battier & Alex Smith https://www.youtube.com/@GlueGuysPodcast • The No-Stats All-Star (Michael Lewis) https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
0:02.0	I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.2	It is time to try to be gravity.
0:16.0	Right after this ad I love when a guest has a book I do
0:32.8	I feel like such a boomer I mean I'm getting old I'm 46 years'm 46 years old. I forget things. But if I write it down, 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 finer things in life. But I wonder if you've used that muji pen to write down at any point.
0:58.0	The quote I wanted to actually start with, which is of course from Mike Shostoevsky, Coach K,
1:04.0	head coach of your Duke Blue Doubles, who said this, quote,
1:07.0	Shane was an alien.
1:09.0	I wanted at the end of his career to crack his head open and see if he was really human.
1:15.9	End quote.
1:17.2	I think that's a compliment.
1:19.6	Pablo, I was psycho.
1:21.2	I was a psycho, a psychotic, neurotic person in my time at Duke.
1:29.3	And great steel by Forte.
1:32.1	He'll go for two.
1:33.7	No.
1:35.0	Oh, what a play.
1:38.3	That's one of the great defensive plays you'll have a scene right there, Davey.
1:42.4	When Coach K recruited me, I was part of a very talented recruiting class,
1:46.4	number one class in the country, Elton Brand, William Avery, right?
1:50.7	Chris Burgess.
1:51.6	I grew up watching you guys.
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