The Sporting Class: Inside Google's $200 Million War on ESPN
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As The Great Football Blackout of 2025 reaches the cliff's edge, John Skipper and David Samson take Pablo inside Disney's call before the earnings call: Does Silicon Valley have a higher tolerance for pain than Mickey Mouse? Does the Worldwide Leader have more power than Fox News? And will mollifying Donald Trump get you anywhere? Plus: MFN status, the "I Don't Wanna Get Screwed" clause, debating Romance languages... and John Mamdani.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:02.1 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:06.6 | I would challenge you to find anybody who would suggest I was ever ogre-like in a discussion. |
| 0:12.2 | I would challenge you to find anyone within my industry who doesn't view you that way. |
| 0:18.5 | Right after this ad David Samson |
| 0:27.4 | looks better than he's ever looked in my view |
| 0:29.8 | Wow |
| 0:30.9 | I feel worse than I've ever felt in my view |
| 0:34.5 | But thank you |
| 0:35.5 | Not my target demographic |
| 0:37.2 | But I appreciate the |
| 0:38.7 | compliment it's not a bad look many people can't pull off a clean shaven head |
| 0:44.0 | and a full beard David looks like he's in a new era of content creation as a |
| 0:51.1 | result and I want to thank you David for making time to be here the story of why you've shaved your hair is explained on your own show, nothing personal with David Sampson. It is in tribute to your daughter, who we have talked about before on this show. And elsewhere, I don't want to dwell on it beyond the fact that there is a convenient metaphor. Because we are here to talk about who gets to take a haircut in the world. |
| 1:12.3 | Look at, I'm so good at this guys. |
| 1:14.2 | That's amazing. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm so good at hosting the sporting class. |
| 1:17.0 | He is a professional. |
| 1:20.8 | Folks, this is not rehearsed. |
| 1:22.1 | Does that mean he gets paid to do this? |
| 1:24.2 | A lot. |
| 1:24.8 | I get paid for Segway, actually. |
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