Paul Hembekides - ESPN's "Hembo" shares his journey of sports, faith, broadcasting and writing books
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Paul Hembekides is a content producer for ESPN’s Get Up, and he partners with Mike Greenberg on ESPN Radio’s #Greeny. He has become best known for his daily trivia question, which earned him the nickname “Sneaky Hembo.” Paul began his career on Mike and Mike and is recognized as one of the premier sports media researchers in the industry.
He contributes weekly to the Baseball Tonight podcast, and his research is regularly featured on ESPN.com.
Today on the podcast, Jason Romano and Paul Hembekides share memories of working together at ESPN, discuss how to live out their faith in the workplace, Hembo’s new book ‘Got Your Answers: The 100 Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time’, and the lessons they have learned as fathers. Hembekides shares how becoming a father has helped him understand God’s love and patience.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up on today's show, a little reunion of sorts, if you will, with a colleague |
| 0:05.4 | of mine that I worked with and admired and became good friends with during my last year at ESPN. |
| 0:11.9 | Paul Hembuketes, otherwise known as Hembo, who many of you know if you watch Get Up or if you |
| 0:17.6 | listen to ESPN Radio and Greenie Mike Greenberg's radio show, Hembo is |
| 0:21.8 | prominently featured on those shows. He's a content producer and really the stats |
| 0:27.4 | guru, if you will, on the shows. He used to be on Mike and Mike, which I was on as well. |
| 0:32.7 | We worked together there that last year in 2016 into 2017. Hembo has since gone on to co-author two books with Mike |
| 0:40.6 | Greenberg and one of them reached the New York Times bestseller list in 2023 called Got Your |
| 0:46.3 | Number, the greatest sports legends and the numbers that they own. And now they got a new book |
| 0:51.3 | coming out together, Greenie and Hembo, releasing September 24th called |
| 0:55.3 | Got Your Answers, the 100 Greatest Sports Arguments. Yes, if you're a sports fan, this is the book to get, |
| 1:03.5 | but if you're looking to learn a little bit more about the guy Hembo, who's now married with three |
| 1:09.4 | kids, this is a conversation that I'm fascinated |
| 1:13.0 | by and really excited for you to hear. It's two friends, two guys, kind of meeting up, |
| 1:17.8 | if you will, haven't talked in depth in a long time, and hopefully you enjoy the stories. |
| 1:23.4 | Hopefully you enjoy Hembo's candid discussion, if you will, about his faith, which I really |
| 1:29.9 | liked kind of diving deep into. |
| 1:32.1 | And also just how much he's seen God's hand on the journey that he's been on. |
| 1:36.5 | And of course, yes, we talk a lot of sports as well. |
| 1:39.7 | And certainly I ask him about the sports argument that he loves the most that's featured in the new |
| 1:45.9 | book, Got Your Answers. |
| 1:47.0 | So Paul Hembikides, otherwise known as Hembo, coming up in just a moment here on Sports Spectrum. |
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