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Le Batard & Friends Network

PTFO - Share & Pardon & Tell with Michael Wilbon and Dan Le Batard

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Can rockstar sportswriters be friends with superstar athletes? How do you measure a good episode of sports TV? And what's so great about being an old dad? Plus: playing the human jukebox, brokering the Jordan-Barkley peace, writing about Holyfield's ear on deadline... and the word "podcast" as a racial slur. Further content: • "Ear Today, Gone Tomorrow" (1997) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1997/06/29/ear-today-gone-tomorrow/3f93d30d-2606-4adc-aeb4-1bf26c9b9bb9/ • "Mission Impossible: African-Americans & Analytics" (2016) https://andscape.com/features/mission-impossible-african-americans-analytics/ • South Beach Sessions: Michael Wilbon (2023)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUV2FxatwQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.7

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0:14.5

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0:19.2

S-b-them!

0:22.9

Right after this ad.

0:25.5

Oh, that's my prime delivery.

0:27.2

Huh, already.

0:28.2

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0:31.8

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0:34.5

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0:35.2

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1:00.9

I wanted this to be a surprise. And instead, I got Levittard on one side. I got Mike Wilbon

1:08.7

on the other. And Dan has some tiny fans in front of him, and I don't understand what's happening.

1:13.8

Why do you guys have headphones? I don't have headphones. I can't have better equipment than you either because you're sitting in a trillion-dollar studio because I've been to that studio. I'm sitting in my fucking house in Scottsdale.

1:25.2

In the middle of PTI negotiations that are heating up. No. Don't be bashful, big boy. Don't be bashful. Oh, boy. There's no middle of anything that I know of. What do you mean? There's no middle of anything that you know of. That contract expires next month. And they lose in Wilbonne and Coronizer. Maybe. Maybe. I might just go to Chicago and do something wildcard. I don't know. Well, our air conditioning was down, and you have not prepared me for this, but I am delighted to see our old friend, Mike Wilbon, El Padino, the godfather. It is nice to see him. Oh, Padringo. Wow. Thank you, Dan. Wait a minute. I think you changed that word.

2:02.6

Padrino is what I called you. I don't know. I thought you said Padringo. I was like,

2:06.5

you came very close to saying like, fucking Spanish. They're very dangerous. More or less racist,

2:13.3

actually. That might have been both at the same time. Good to see you guys both.

2:18.3

Likewise. This is something that I am doing for a number of reasons, one of which is that as part of the PTI Cinematic Universe,

2:26.3

I saw you growing up co-hosting PTI together when Tony Cornheiseriser was out and now I'm the guy who only fills in

2:35.6

when Wilbon is out and I want to get a sense of what your actual dynamic is because you guys

2:41.1

Padrino aside um it's weird it's I don't quite know if Wilbon actually totally likes you Dan

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