Episodes

  • On Control: A Rare Conversation with Sue Bird and Ezra Edelman

    On Control: A Rare Conversation with Sue Bird and Ezra Edelman
    Dec 17 2024
    This year has seen a boom in the worlds of women's sports and documentary films (and podcasting). So we invited the best point guard in the history of women's basketball (Sue Bird) and the best documentarian in the country (O.J.: Made in America's Ezra Edelman) for an in-person summit to discuss all of it. Plus: one-word answers from multi-hyphenates, the good-faith mind games of talking to refs, the bad-faith ickiness of extracting controversial stories, The Geno Auriemma Butthole Story, the Billie Jean King of it all... and why the hard's not as hard, when you're doing the thing you were meant to be doing — even when it's hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • The 2nd Annual Ronny Chieng Content-Prostitution Hour

    The 2nd Annual Ronny Chieng Content-Prostitution Hour
    Dec 13 2024
    The Daily Show senior correspondent, Interior Chinatown star and NBA nerd is here to make your three-level nihilist host feel a rare sense of insecurity, while comparing: humility and arrogance; the bipartisan popularity and cognitive logic of jiu jitsu; the ageless wonder of Tom Brady and Daniel Dae Kim; the love lives of Jeremy Lin and Hideki Matsui; Pablo's career and his cameo in Ronny's spiked pilot about the Brooklyn Nets' front office; and the hierarchy of Most Fun Asians. Plus: uncensored Russell Westbrook slander, unabashed Free Darko nostalgia, last-minute Dennis Leary antagonism, scarring David Lynch surrealism... and a revisiting of Ronnie's awkward encounter with (and hollow apology from) Dan Le Batard — all in the chase for instant aggregation by Buttcrack Sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • Share & Gift & Tell with Domonique Foxworth and David Samson

    Share & Gift & Tell with Domonique Foxworth and David Samson
    Dec 12 2024
    How does star treatment really work, behind clubhouse doors? (And what do you do when a player demands tickets for both his wife and his mistress?) Can you just microdose Ozempic like it’s shrooms? And what’s the worst gift you’ve ever received? Plus: Barry Bonds, “posse,” body dysmorphia, and a picture of a bicycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    47 mins
  • Naming Neverland: Michael Jackson, Peter Pan and the Lawsuit That Never Was

    Naming Neverland: Michael Jackson, Peter Pan and the Lawsuit That Never Was
    Dec 10 2024
    What do a notorious $28 million home, a $450,000 oversized check presented to Princess Diana, and a $150,000 wire transfer for a witch doctor to curse Steven Spielberg... have in common? Correspondent Yourgo Artsitas wondered if Michael Jackson — rejected by Hollywood in his prime — made a deal with the palace, for the perpetual rights to re-brand himself as Peter Pan. The answer involves a Spider-Man tombstone, sacrificial cows, Rufio, the Bible, the very idea of innocence, and lots and lots of lawsuits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • The Sporting Class: The Trade That Kept Inside the NBA Alive

    The Sporting Class: The Trade That Kept Inside the NBA Alive
    Dec 6 2024
    Welcome to The Sporting Class! Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper and Nothing Personal's David Samson are back with another episode with host of Pablo Torre Finds Out ... Pablo Torre! We’ve been on a year-long climb up the mountain top of the NBA broadcast rights deal journey and we’ve reached the peak. Inside the NBA is not going anywhere… except it will now be on ESPN starting next year. How did we get here? Why did Disney make this deal with Warner Bros. Discovery? Is this the end of the drama? This brings us back to a little trade that John Skipper had done back in 2005 and it’s all about a cartoon rabbit! Negotiations, talent, agents, contracts: It's not fun, but a necessary part of the business. Stephen A. Smith is currently in talks for a new mega contract with ESPN. How is this getting worked out? The College Football Playoff is almost set and it’s come with drama. The four-team playoff was a mess and it’s out. The 12-team was supposed to be the best and of course it finds itself in more drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Share & Litigate & Tell with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne

    Share & Litigate & Tell with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne
    Dec 5 2024
    Influencers are finally suing each other for making seemingly identical content. Should we be laughing or crying (hint: we’re doing both)? Ben Affleck thinks that AI will never replace movies. Is he hot and wrong, or just hot? And how is everybody not depressed? Also: if Ray Romano and Dan Le Batard became one person, cryptic births, Clean Girls, Ding Dong Primple Pants, and Michael’s finest career credit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • From Ronaldo to D-Wade: Athlete Statues, Reviewed by Pulitzer-Winning Art Critic Jerry Saltz

    From Ronaldo to D-Wade: Athlete Statues, Reviewed by Pulitzer-Winning Art Critic Jerry Saltz
    Dec 3 2024
    Not since the Greco-Roman period has sculpture mattered this much in sports. And Jerry Saltz — the Pulitzer Prize-winning senior art critic for New York magazine — has zero idea who Dwyane Wade is. Which is precisely why we asked the erstwhile Jewish Cowboy (we'll explain) to evaluate our athletic Bronze Age, from Michael Jordan to Cristiano Ronaldo. And that's before we get to "I Can't Believe It's Not Pablo (Butter on Gasbag, 2024)." Plus: the conscious uncoupling of art and money, sex workers in Jacksonville, how to make an enemy of envy, and why you can't be a vampire alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • The Pick Who Became Tom Brady: An NFL Secret, Finally Revealed

    The Pick Who Became Tom Brady: An NFL Secret, Finally Revealed
    Nov 29 2024
    You may think you know how the Patriots drafted the greatest quarterback of all time: with the 199th pick in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. But the real story — the story of exactly how the Patriots got to make that pick, in the first place — has never been made public… until now. Today, Pablo dives into the secret world of the NFL’s compensatory formula. And we unmask the identity of the free agent who flapped his wings, changing sports history forever. This episode originally aired September 12, 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    49 mins