Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

  • 53 minutes 45 seconds
    Nate Silver Is Still Gambling with His Reputation

    Trump won, Silicon Valley is Moneyballing everything, and the worldview of the most famous political nerd on Earth... is eating the world. But Nate Silver still wants to prove people wrong: on what the 2016 and 2024 elections really told us; his falling out with the Left; and how tech billionaires are more irrational than they like to admit. Also: Elon Musk totaling a car, Peter Thiel believing in destiny, and Neymar playing poker.

    Buy Nate Silver's new book:

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/529280/on-the-edge-by-nate-silver/

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    https://www.natesilver.net/

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    21 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 42 minutes 36 seconds
    It's Time to Remember One of the Worst Athletes Ever

    We are entrapped by an algorithm preying on our most terrifying human vulnerabilities. But inside us exists a cabinet of curiosities, and few are better at finding poetry in our past than Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace, an award-winning podcast and new book. Pablo's kindred spirit conjures a time before Jason Giambi and the golden thong, when the least qualified Major Leaguer of all time was also, somehow, the luckiest. Plus: a new video about pigeons; swimming “lesser channels”; and, yes, raccoons failing to eat cotton candy.

    Buy the book:

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-memory-palace-true-short-stories-of-the-past-nate-dimeo/21177599

    Subscribe to The Memory Palace:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-memory-palace/id299436963

    And listen to the Prince episode of "Pablo Torre Finds Out": https://podcasts.apple.com/jm/podcast/when-docs-cry-inside-the-secret-netflix-masterpiece/id1685093486?i=1000672194989

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    19 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 53 minutes 42 seconds
    The Sporting Class: Caitlin Clark's Next Big Payday

    She may be the most polarizing athlete on the planet, but whatever Caitlin Clark touches still turns to gold. Meadowlark Media CEO John Skipper is a lead investor in Unrivaled — a groundbreaking new 3-on-3 women's basketball league — and they're hot on the recruiting trail. Will Clark take the money and run? Plus: How might a second Trump administration affect the billionaires of the sports world? And can David Samson get the future Secretary of State to pick up the phone?

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    15 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 53 minutes 56 seconds
    Watching the Dallas Cowboys on Death Row: Our Visit to a Supermax Prison

    A staggering number of death-row inmates have used their last words to do the same thing: pay tribute to their favorite sports teams. So we sent correspondent Dave Fleming to a supermax prison in Texas to find out why. Charles Flores — Inmate No. 999299 at the notorious Polunsky Unit in Livingston — has maintained his innocence for over 25 years and counting… while living in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. And Flores agreed to take us inside his hidden world of game-day enchiladas, trash talk, and fantasy football. Where there isn’t always next year.=

    To learn more about the case of Charles Flores: https://www.freecharlesflores.com/

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    14 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 44 minutes 34 seconds
    Our Election-Free Share & Tell with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne

    The national vibes are... fraught. So, Pablo asks: What do you watch to make yourself feel better? Plus: athshletes, Uncrustables, the world's largest kaleidoscope, thicc televisions, and Understanding It Now.

    Further soothing content:

    Björk talking about her TV

    Zombie Kid Likes Turtles

    The CEO of Corn

    Grape Lady falls

    Eve of Saint Crispin's Day

    SHOOTING GUMMIE BEARS INTO A WATER BOTTLE

    We Couldn't Be Derailed in Brooklyn

    LeBron James Rides the New York City Subway

    Wait, NFL players eat how many Uncrustables? (Jayson Jenks)

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    12 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 53 minutes 57 seconds
    "America's Biggest Failure": Share & Election & Tell with Wyatt Cenac and Tim Miller

    After lint-rolling through post-election coverage, Pablo tries to makes peace with Trump 2.0, with a little help from the future president of Grenada and the host of The Bulwark Podcast: Have Joe Rogan and the manosphere become the new fourth estate? How did a Suicide Squad of psychopaths become Washington's starting lineup? And how much is Elon Musk’s science fiction really fictional anymore? Plus: Grumpcoin, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Stephen A. Smith 2028, and Canon Curry 2052. 

    Further reading:

    About That Press Conference (Tim Miller)

    Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket (Jill Lepore)

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    8 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 49 minutes 56 seconds
    The News Anchor America Needed

    Turning on the news right now feels utterly surreal. But it didn’t always have to be this way. Because Connie Chung — tenacious TV broadcaster and author of a new memoir — set a gold standard in the pre-internet era. For being unafraid of powerful men. For getting scoops at the bar. For trash-talking. For calling out Donald Trump’s childishness to his face. For withstanding the boorish behavior of Bobby Knight and unearthing the inner pain of Michael Jordan. And, yes, for shutting down the richest man on Earth... even after he jumped over a chair.

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    7 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 45 minutes 49 seconds
    How 'Veep' Predicted the Election, with the Real-Life Jonah Ryan

    It's Election Day. And if there is anyone who saw this entire mess coming, it's the prophets behind the HBO series Veep — a 17-time Emmy-award-winning satire that feels, with each passing day, like a political documentary. So, today, we invite none other than actor Timothy Simons to join us, in studio, to relive what it was like to play Jonah Ryan: the Jolly Green Jizz Face, himself. Also: Draft Day.

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    5 November 2024, 10:00 am
  • 45 minutes 2 seconds
    The Secret Life of the Greatest Mascot in Sports

    For 33 years, he was paid by the Denver Nuggets not to speak but to entertain — with unparalleled vitality and virality — as Rocky the Mountain Lion. Now, Kenn Solomon breaks his silence, on the bloody, back-breaking work of a very private profession. Plus: Rocky's flu game, his beef with Russell Westbrook... and what it feels like to get knocked unconscious by Charles Barkley.

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    1 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 50 minutes 26 seconds
    We Stayed at the NBA's "Haunted" Hotel — and Discovered Something New

    It is a century-old legend wrapped in a basketball conspiracy: The Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City was the visiting team's resting place of choice. Except the 10th floor was also (allegedly) home to a housekeeper who's been spooking all-stars for more than a decade. In a crossover Halloween spook-tacular, Pablo sends Oddball hosts Amin Elhassan and Charlotte Wilder on a ghost-hunting sleepover to investigate the foremost paranormal story in sports. They returned with data from the hardcourt to the toilet seat, plus a feisty Paul Pierce... and one gigantic inflatable horse costume.

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    31 October 2024, 9:00 am
  • 53 minutes 57 seconds
    Our Weekend with the Most “Extra” Player in the NFL

    Pablo travels to Minneapolis to spend a weekend with the player responsible for the best celebrations in the NFL: Vikings safety Cam Bynum, a rising star — and proud Filipino-American — whose story is about love at first sight, the value of patience and connecting two countries on opposite sides of our planet. Also: lumpia.

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    29 October 2024, 9:00 am
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