Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends
Follow Pablo down the rabbit hole, well beyond the game — every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday — on his award-winning podcast/TV show.You’ll get a deep-dive "talkumentary" episode, reported by Pablo and Curiosity Correspondents like Emmy-winning comedian Wyatt Cenac and Oscar-winning director Ezra Edelman, answering urgent questions such as: Are you smarter than an NFL quarterback? Does Giannis intentionally miss free throws to win free chicken for fans? And why does the FBI director play so much hockey? This storytelling has been honored by the Edward R. Murrow Awards and Peabody Awards. (Journalism!)Plus: Pablo hangs out with handpicked figures from sports, culture and politics like Sue Bird, Action Bronson and a U.S. Senator… plays Share & Tell with friends like Domonique Foxworth, Mina Kimes, Katie Nolan and Dan Le Batard (aka his boss)… and unveils the secrets of capitalism with David Samson and John Skipper on The Sporting Class.Follow PTFO…https://www.youtube.com/@PabloTorreFindsOuthttps://www.instagram.com/pablotorrefindsouthttps://x.com/pablofindsout…and subscribe to Pablo's newsletter:https://pablo.show
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Dec 12, 2023 • 44min
Bring Hersh Home: Why a Soccer Super-Fan Taken Hostage by Hamas Is Still a 'Ray of Hope' in Israel
Hersh Goldberg-Polin was devoted to an Israeli football club fighting for peace. Supporters of its rival include far-right Israeli politicians like a national-security minister hellbent on war — and a racist mob. If you want help understanding the Israel-Hamas conflict, Hersh's abduction by terrorists is a window to the world. Correspondent Amos Barshad interviews his loved ones and finds a silver lining.(Read the companion article at The Lever)Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R0IoouIfXNc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 8, 2023 • 53min
Share & Tell with George Santos, Mina 'The Meanie' Kimes, Danny Downer, and Pablo
Why are we allowing the most flagrant liar in American politics to shamelessly Cameo-wash himself with direct-to-consumer content? Is it so unreasonable that Shohei Ohtani isn't handling his free agency like the American sports media wants him to? And about that sports media: Are the olds — and words — about to get left behind? (Plus: farts in a jar and the ballad of the teacup Maltese.)PTFO-approved reading:Shohei Ohtani's Secretive Free Agency Is a Missed Opportunity for Him and MLB (Buster Olney)How Gen Z Is Killing Sports Media as We Know It (Alex Reimer)Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/puOmElQS7R8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 7, 2023 • 53min
Ronny Chieng Channels the Buddhism of Bill Belichick
The comic, actor, and Daily Show correspondent/president shovels out content with the best of 'em. But he also believes in bombing onstage to learn the optimum level of failure. He believes in using anger to win over an audience — or to find a new favorite team, or to find love. Ronny Chieng believes. Also: watching thousands of hours of Patriots documentaries, torrenting "Around the Horn," dialing up NBA Live, getting Covid based on your fandom... and the best foul-mouthed Bill Belichick impersonation you've ever heard.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fX5AnWhP65s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 5, 2023 • 54min
Are You Smarter Than an NFL Quarterback?
A fierce debate — about no less than the meaning of intelligence itself — has broken out in the world of football scouting, as star quarterback C.J. Stroud puts together one of the best rookie QB seasons ever... after bombing the new Wonderlic test. But can this S2 Cognition exam actually predict how your brain impacts athletic performance? Pablo puts himself to the ultimate test of mental agility, with a little help from Alex Smith — and with a LOT of expletives.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/inuwR73XKw0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 1, 2023 • 42min
The Secret Formula of the College Football Playoff Committee
No conference-championship weekend in the history of the College Football Playoff has higher stakes than the one upon us right now. And so we turn to John Urschel — newly liberated CFP selection committee member; ex-NFL lineman; and current MIT mathematician — to shed the cloak and drop the dagger. And we learn what actually happens, behind closed doors, as hordes of furious fans demand the favor of a cabal that might be more Office Space than Eyes Wide Shut.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EjkxEv7nIBY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 30, 2023 • 54min
An Ominously Utopian Share & Tell with Katie Nolan, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo
Is the Sports Illustrated A.I. scandal dystopian, funny, or just plain sad? Depends whether you think art has a soul. Are champion athletes predisposed to addictive tendencies? Depends if you think you've gotta be a workaholic a$$hole to create great art. And what's with that commercial for a futuristic hostel on the NFL games? Depends if you're willing to live in a fake utopia. Plus: powdered wigs, Piña coladas, chum buckets, bone saws, flying cars, Faulkner, DiMaggio, the Michael Jordan of being present, and a parliament of owls.Further PTFO-approved content:Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (Futurism)An Addictive Personality Can Facilitate Sporting Greatness — but What Are the Consequences? (The Athletic)This Is NEOM (YouTube)Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8FFp_wqjs5o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Nov 28, 2023 • 54min
The Truth About Magic Johnson's Tweets, and More of the Internet's Most Important Mysteries
Who runs Magic's extraordinarily earnest Twitter account? Is Wu-Tang really that good at chess? Just how racist is the Oklahoma Sooner mascot? Is Victor Wembanyama the end of human evolution? Also: cotton balls, buttholes, and trolls. You asked, we investigated — with a little help from Rob Lowe, Method Man, Masta Killa, and Killers of the Flower Moon author David Grann.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zAJhIrX1vBs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 24, 2023 • 55min
The Teenage Athlete at the Heart of America's Culture War... Isn't Very Good at Sports
Politicians don't want transgender people dominating girls' sports. But Ember Zelch just wanted to play softball, and nobody else seemed to mind. She was, after all, the ONLY trans girl officially even PLAYING girls' varsity sports in her ENTIRE state. Pablo travels to Ohio to learn why Ember fought for her right to love sports anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 23, 2023 • 54min
I Think I Solved the Mystery of the NFL's Secret Scammer and a $5 Billion Check
Pablo investigates a story including, but not limited to, a Duke basketball champion, a World War II treasure hunt, an alleged con man, Bob Marley, Dan Snyder, and an attempt to make history by purchasing the Washington Commanders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Nov 21, 2023 • 54min
How Sam Bankman-Fried Sportswashed an $8 Billion Crypto Fraud, Starring Tom Brady and Steph Curry
The FTX founder was a "martian" to the sports world. Why did he spend so much on arena naming rights and superstar endorsements? And how the hell did SBF become friends with TB12? Authors Michael Lewis (Going Infinite) and Zeke Faux (Number Go Up) witnessed the rise and fall of a crypto king. Now we can do the postmortem: “Moneyball, on steroids, gone wrong.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
