The Sporting Class: A Hostile Takeover, FIFA Bribes & the 2025 Gold Rush
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Did Warner Bros. start a war so that its CEO could cash in for courtside seats? Would Mickey Mouse give a fast pass to FIFA? And what did our white-hat hackers learn this year on Rich Guys OnlyFans? John Skipper and David Samson butt heads about sports business — plus invent a new cocktail.
• Previously on The Sporting Class: On The Witness Stand at the FIFA Bribery Trial with John Skipper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:02.5 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:07.2 | You speak much truth there, but you ignore one thing. |
| 0:11.7 | I worked for the Walt Disney Company, and no matter what you may cynically think, |
| 0:16.5 | as executives we were told, you must behave ethically. |
| 0:20.6 | Right after this ad |
| 0:21.8 | that is a very welcome david it makes me feel almost like you're here we're gonna cleaning |
| 0:35.7 | the table off. |
| 0:41.3 | We're gonna begin where the first sound is going to be John laughing in response to what David said. |
| 0:41.8 | We will now, on the record, say that David thinks we're too gross to hang out with right now. |
| 0:47.6 | Well, I've fought back for a long time. |
| 0:50.0 | He has, but there's been no real reason he didn't have to put up with it. |
| 0:55.3 | He now has a reason that he shouldn't put up with it. |
| 0:58.3 | He has the help of his family to think about, and we have nothing but support for that. |
| 1:04.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:05.0 | Though I do long for the day when you can come back and admonish my personal lack of repulsion to germs and other |
| 1:15.9 | grotty things. |
| 1:17.4 | Hygiene, yeah. |
| 1:18.4 | So I must say, gentlemen, that I spoke to the lead doctor on this very issue about coming |
| 1:24.6 | into the studio because I knew he had this show to do. |
| 1:27.3 | And she asked me what the state of the studio was, whether or not there were different areas I could be. |
| 1:32.4 | What is the general, basically environment? |
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