Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

Punching down does not adequately summarize what is happening to a class of people that from a purely American principle, we should seek to protect because they are vulnerable.

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It's my pleasure now to welcome Pablo Tori to the stage for our opening keynote conversation.

So please join me in welcoming Poppo.

Thank you.

So if you're already wondering where I am, what's going on, what the hell is happening with this episode, these are fair questions I'd like to explain.

Last month, I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the University of Connecticut's Dodd Center for Human Rights,

which is a truly remarkable organization, at least because not every university has a center for human rights.

And the Dodd Center's focus for their biennial conference this time around was going to be sports.

And Professor James Waller, who's the guy interviewing me on stage,

this wildly accomplished author and international scholar who invited me,

had apparently also been listening to our show,

which frequently touches on issues relating to human rights,

as you may have noticed.

But also, we almost never articulate what I consider to be this through line across our many, many episodes, at least not in one single place.

So I figured it might be cool if today's episode was that through line.

If it was that keynote that I gave in Stores, Connecticut, which is, of course, a hotbed of college sports

that I, embarrassingly, had never visited before,

which means I'd never visited this auditorium,

which I was now truly honored to address.

We're very fortunate that Pablo can be with us here as our opening keynote for the morning.

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