Share & Pardon & Tell with Michael Wilbon and Dan Le Batard
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 53 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)
• "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
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| 0:44.7 | Please drink responsibly, |
| 0:46.5 | because today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:51.5 | S-de-them. |
| 0:56.5 | Right after this ad. |
| 1:05.2 | I wanted this to be a surprise. |
| 1:09.1 | Instead, I got levittard on one side. |
| 1:29.6 | I got Mike Wilbon on the other, and Dan has some tiny fans in front of him. And I don't understand what's happening. 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. In the middle of PTI negotiations they're heating up. No. Don't be bashful, big boy. Don't be bashful. Oh boy. No middle of anything |
| 1:36.4 | that I know of. What do you mean there's no middle of anything that you know of? That contract |
| 1:40.5 | expires next month and they lose in Wilbonne and Coronizer that. 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, Bar d'Ingingo. Wow. Thank you, Dan. Wait a minute. I think you changed that word. Padrino is what I called you. I don't know. I thought you said Padrino. I thought you said Padringo. I was like, oh, you came very close to saying like, in Spanish, they're very dangerous. More or less racist, actually. That might have been both at the same time. |
| 2:18.0 | Good to see you guys both. |
| 2:19.9 | Likewise. |
| 2:20.8 | This is something that I am doing for a number of reasons, one of which is that as part of the PTI cinematic universe, I saw you growing up, |
| 2:31.3 | co-hosting PTI together when Tony Kornheiser was out. |
| 2:35.5 | And now I'm the guy who only fills in when Wilbon is out. |
| 2:39.4 | And I want to get a sense of what your actual dynamic is, because you guys, Padrino aside, |
| 2:44.8 | it's weird. |
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