The Billionaire, the Billboards and the Star of the Worst Ad in Sports History (PTFO Vault)
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The viral commercial has a mysteriously simple message: sportsmanship. The child actor has gotten dunked on by NBA Twitter for more than a decade. Correspondent Zach Schwartz untangles a web from Madison Avenue to the Supreme Court to Damian Lillard, in search of a boy named Alex — and the meaning of perseverance.
(This episode originally aired January 7, 2025.)
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| 1:02.6 | Okay, so hello, it is me, Pablo, entering, invading even your ears because I have done something I have not done before, which is take the advice of someone |
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| 1:28.4 | investigate. You should let them. And so I am. On Substack, my newsletter at www.pablo.com, we'll put a link in the |
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