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Pablo Torre Finds Out
Follow Pablo down the rabbit hole, beyond the game — every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday — on his Pulitzer-winning video podcast, part of The Athletic Podcast Network.
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…
Episodes
Pablo Torre Finds OutUFC at the White House: How Dana White and Donald Trump Cashed In
The president's birthday-party fight card is straight out of central casting — and chock-full of political favor-trading. Who stands to gain the most? Luke…
Pablo Torre Finds OutAmerica Signed Up for the World Cup. FIFA Stuck You with the Tab.
The biggest party in global sport is underway, and soccer's governing body stands to profit nearly $9 billion. How did FIFA squeeze U.S. taxpayers with so many…
Pablo Torre Finds OutLinsanity Is Dead. Long Live Linsanity: Jeremy Lin on the Finals, the Garden and the Healing Power of These Knicks
Madison Square Garden hasn't felt this alive since a little-known point guard from Harvard became the most popular person in New York City. On the occasion of…
Pablo Torre Finds OutBallmer's Secret I.O.U., Aspiration's "Web of Lies" and the Zenith of Fraud: Kawhi-Gate, Part XI
As Adam Silver calls for the NBA's Kawhi Leonard probe to wrap up and Aspiration's co-founder gets 14 years behind bars, Pablo investigates how Steve Ballmer…
Pablo Torre Finds OutDo Not Mess with the Reporter Who Took Down Jeffrey Epstein
Julie K. Brown went from working in a bell factory to ringing the alarm on masters of the universe and (finally) winning a Pulitzer. The Miami Herald reporter…
Pablo Torre Finds OutExclusive: Inside Zohran Mamdani's NYC Sports Equinox (feat. Adam Friedland)
Pablo visits the mayor of New York in his backyard, on the eve of the NBA Finals — and the cusp of heartbreak for his Arsenal F.C. — to discuss Knicks joy…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Eat the Rich & Tell with Tim Miller and Stephanie Ruhle
Can Trump ruin these Knicks vibes? Why are billionaires so sensitive? Just how much of the White House is for sale? And is the pope radical? Or can decency…
Pablo Torre Finds OutExclusive: The Harambe Tapes, Revealed
Ten years ago today, one gorilla's death broke the internet, from sports and politics to million-dollar memes. But Harambe's life was a tragic battle over…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"Celebrity Jeopardy!" Film Study (Championship Edition) with Mina Kimes and Domonique Foxworth
How is preparing for a game show like playing in the NFL? What's the first rule of "Jeopardy!" Fight Club? And why would you bet zero dollars with a million on…
Pablo Torre Finds OutUnlocking the State Secrets of College Football, with FOIAball's "King of the Bros"
He dug up Dianna Russini's playlist for Mike Vrabel. And Osama bin Laden's p*rn stash from the CIA. He even got a DM from Bill Belichick's girlfriend on the…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Walk Alone & Tell with Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski
Have billionaire owners left us in the twilight of American fandom? Are crying Liverpool fans actually the cure for male loneliness? And is the NFL offseason…
Pablo Torre Finds OutCheap Trick: Debunking the "Magic" of Mentalist Oz Pearlman
He's wowed presidents, pro athletes and podcasters. But magicians tell us Oz Pearlman's viral act has crossed an ethical line. Stevie Baskin, after obsessively…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Sporting Class: Is the NFL Killing the Golden Goose?
What do the tech titans of Silicon Valley and the old heads of traditional broadcast television have in common? Answer: they all need to kiss the ring of Roger…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"Be Like Satoshi": We Unmask Scottie Pippen's A.I. Crypto Slop
Why is the Bulls legend hawking "the Mona Lisa of sports" as a talking Web3 meme-coin NFT? And who are the secret weapons turning the 60-year-old Hall-of-Famer…
Pablo Torre Finds OutIt's the End of LIV Golf as We Knew It (and Trump Feels Fine)
The president may have ended his favorite sport's civil war — by waging a war of his own. But what did we really learn from Saudi Arabia's multibillion-dollar…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"Did You Hear That, James?" We Survived MSG Surveillance... with Edward Snowden's Lawyer
The Knicks are surging. But politicians are condemning owner James Dolan and his tax breaks, after our investigation with WIRED. So Pablo tests the limits of…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Anti-Pulitzer & Tell with Michael Cruz Kayne and Sam Reich
What does Mark Cuban think of Pablo's big Pulitzer Prize win? Did A.I. write that JPMorgan threesome lawsuit? And are the steroid Olympics in fact the Apollo…
Pablo Torre Finds OutSteve Ballmer's Victim Impact, the Man Who Prosecuted Aspiration and the Abacus of Incarceration: Kawhi-Gate, Part X
As the Clippers await punishment, their owner is big mad at Pablo — and appears worried about what Aspiration's founder might have told the NBA. So Pablo and…
Pablo Torre Finds OutFailure to Report: How Harvard Whitewashed Jeffrey Epstein's Millions (Part 2)
Epstein wasn't just funding women's sports or creeping around campus. Our new files — and Harvard's own audit — show how a billionaire pedophile used the…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"The Jeffrey E. Epstein Fund for Women's Athletics": We Investigate Harvard's Hidden Epstein Files (Part 1)
How did an unforgettable donation from the most notorious pedophile in America get past the most prestigious university's self-investigation? And why did…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Man Who (Relentlessly) Sued the NFL Has Receipts: A Sitdown with DeMaurice Smith
Secret salary caps. Accidental email attachments. Truth-serum texts from owners. Slide decks for ESPN. If anyone knows how to dork-out on billionaires taking…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Sporting Class: Affairs, Private Eyes and the All-Seeing Eye
What are the business ethics of sh*tting where you eat? Can you be a journalist and an "insider" at the same time? And what happened after the Knicks' owner…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"Celebrity Jeopardy!" Film Study: Share & Buzz & Tell with Mina Kimes and Timothy Simons
How does the game-show game clock move so fast? Why do you become 30% dumber when the cameras roll? And is Mina part of a sociopathic conspiracy with Ken…
Pablo Torre Finds OutExclusive: How The Onion Finally Shut Up Alex Jones for Good
The notorious conspiracy theorist profited from his vile Sandy Hook conspiracy. Then America's finest (fake) news source decided to troll the world's greatest…
Pablo Torre Finds OutWe Got Inside Knicks Surveillance — and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think
Tracking players. Monitoring kids. Allegedly watching a fan enter the bathroom. The panopticon of notorious owner James Dolan has been caught in glimpses. But…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Right-Wing Takeover of Combat Sports Is Upon Us
Donald Trump's comfort zone. Coercive deals. Saudi funding. In the era of American favor-trading, a company called TKO Group Holdings is dominating the fight…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Fandom of the Opera: A Linebacker, a White Whale... and a Secret
We get it: As Timothée Chalamet said, "no one cares" about opera. But you should listen, instead, to former college linebacker Brandon Jovanovich — whose…
Pablo Torre Finds OutBobbleheads on Spikes: The (Selfish) Case for Rules, with David Epstein
Whether it's A.I. companies pirating millions of books or NBA owners violating the salary cap, the most powerful entities in America are trying to circumvent…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman Speaks (PTFO Vault)
America's best documentary filmmaker spent nearly five years making a nine-hour masterpiece for Netflix. Which you'll never see. Edelman sits down with Pablo…
Pablo Torre Finds OutPerhaps Our Last Hour on Earth, with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne
Civilization had a pretty good run. Will the astronauts be the last ones living? Will Jordon Hudson sue Pablo and/or beat him in a foot race? Could Sam Altman…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Squirrel & Tell with Elle Duncan and Desus Nice
Do we need robot umpires more than we thought? Is Netflix the Yankees of media? What's the best kind of catfishing? And have we finally evolved beyond pizza…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas
When the body of a Vegas power broker showed up in the back of a Rolls Royce in 1979, the new sports capital of America was born. Why the hell did superstar…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"The Meanest, Most Arrogant, Obnoxious Little Brat I Have Ever Met in My Life"
What is a documentary now? Would you turn against your alma mater? Why did a fan throw a beer bottle at Dan Le Batard's head? And is America just Miami? Child…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Sporting Class: Are NFL Players Ready to Strike?
Domonique Foxworth ran and — Mamma Mia! — lost in last week's secretive election by the NFL Players' Association. As he explains to Pablo and David Samson…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"That's Just Corruption": Sen. Chris Murphy on the Prediction Market Crackdown and Profiteering in Youth Sports
Kalshi and Polymarket have created a Wild West for sports, war and politics in a shamelessly unregulated era. But the U.S. Senator from Connecticut (and…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe State of the (NFL) Union, with Mike Florio
Maximum scandal, maximum secrecy. Now that the NFLPA's game of thrones has sent football back to the future, and new executive director J.C. Tretter back to…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"Who Is Going to Pull a Pablo Torre on Pablo Torre?"
How did a firing at ESPN birth this show? Can you be anti-establishment within the establishment? And will the principles of journalism survive, when…
Pablo Torre Finds OutEyes Wide Open: The Consequences of Finding Out, with Tom Junod
From 9/11 and Ali to sharing a bed with Nicole Kidman and outing Kevin Spacey, he was already one of the greatest — and most confrontational — magazine writers…
Pablo Torre Finds OutExclusive: The NFL Players' Union, the Silenced Top Cop and the Cabal of "Strip-Club Dreams"
As the NFLPA plots to restore its scandal-plagued leader to power, the labor group's outgoing lead security officer sits down with Pablo. And Craig Jones — the…
Pablo Torre Finds OutMeet the Edge Lord: Secrets of a Gambler Winning America's Money
He's a hedge-fund exec by day... and a blacklisted sports-betting savant by night. On the eve of your March Madness pool, Galen Hall breaks down his Oceans…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & MMAmerica & Tell with Wyatt Cenac and Tim Miller
Is an (alleged) MMA fighter-in-chief less bad than Evil Barbie on her love plane? Is Washington just performative sadism now? And are you still Stephen…
Pablo Torre Finds OutHow Billionaires Call the Shots in the NBA (and America), with TrueHoop's Henry Abbott
In an era devoid of accountability for the Epstein class and sports owners (and in-between), Pablo finds a kindred spirit in the OG blogger turned ESPN insider…
Pablo Torre Finds OutBallmer's Tree-Money, the Whistle-Blowers and the Document You've Been Waiting For: Kawhi-Gate, Part IX
How did millions travel from the Clippers to Aspiration to Kawhi Leonard? Amin Elhassan and David Samson join Pablo — live onstage at the MIT Sloan Sports…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Bubble & Tell with Mina Kimes and Derek Thompson
Is A.I. gonna boom, bust or just become Excel? And how screwed are we either way? Plus: Peyton Manning, Lamar Jackson, Geraldo Rivera's vault, a young Tim…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Big Gay Myth of Masculinity in Sports, with Mississippi's Own Jay Jurden
Sports and comedy are America's prisms for progress, allegedly. But this queer comedian from SEC football country can smell the lies. In the locker rooms of…
Pablo Torre Finds OutRoy Wood Jr. Will Not Let This Interview Go Viral
America's podcast guest is a little burned-out. And yet the do-it-all comedian turned method unc is also a bard of modern content creation. So Roy Wood Jr…
Pablo Torre Finds OutCo-Conspirator 1: We Investigated the NBA Betting Scandal's "Original Sin"
As Terry Rozier and Co. return to court, Pablo spans the globe — and the nether regions of the basketball internet — to reveal the unnamed player who turned a…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Free Skate & Tell with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne
Did the Olympics just restore our faith in humanity? Even though America is still the bad guy? Even though penis injections? And even if we think A.I. might…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Sporting Class: Corrupt Union Bosses, the Dark Arts of Ownership & NBA Draft Abolition
Is the MLBPA screwed because its (outgoing) leader allegedly had an affair with his sister-in-law? Is a salary cap a red herring? How much does winning a Super…
Pablo Torre Finds OutOne-on-One: The Untold Story of the Game That Made Magic
It was a pickup game for the ages. Finally, former Miami Heat center — and current DJ — Rony Seikaly opens up to correspondent Foster Kamer about his shocking…
Pablo Torre Finds OutHe Finds Music Stars. Now He's Helping Us Save the Life of a Wrongfully Convicted Man
He used his instinctual superpower to sign an all-star roster of everyone from Stone Temple Pilots and Katy Perry to, yes, Kid Rock. Now, record executive…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Bezos & Tell with Ezra Edelman and David Remnick
What does the death of The Washington Post sports section mean for the future of sports, journalism and propaganda? Was "Melania" a movie — or crypto? And how…
Pablo Torre Finds Out"You're Gonna Get Me In Huge Trouble": Adam Friedland Is a League Source Now
The alleged Jon Stewart of his generation steps down from his YouTube throne and into our studio to discuss what LeBron's agent taught him; why the hell Pablo…
Pablo Torre Finds OutUncle Dennis, Ballmer's $50 Million Sprint and the Side Deal That Wouldn't Die: Kawhi-Gate, Part VIII
As the Clippers host NBA All-Star Weekend, Pablo's "thorough due diligence" leads down a trail of LLCs and lawsuits that Kawhi Leonard and the richest owner in…
Pablo Torre Finds OutSir Mix-a-Lot Finds Out
He is a Seattle sports legend. Also: butts. At 62 years young, the rapper reveals how a Super Bowl ad inspired "Baby Got Back," why he was live-tweeting a…
Pablo Torre Finds OutWe Visited Death Row for the Super Bowl. You Can Help Save This Fan's Life.
A wrongfully convicted football fan is running out of time. So Pablo travels from the free world to Texas, to sit with Charles Flores for the one hour a day…
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From "Reveal": Bad Bunny, Billionaires and the Business of Sports
On the award-winning podcast by our friends at The Center for Investigative Journalism, Pablo sits down with host Al Letson to discuss what it’s like…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Prop-Betification of Everything, with the Forefather of Prediction Markets
He is the accidental creator of a phenomenon eating our world and wallets alive. So how does James Surowiecki feel about Kalshi, Polymarket and the wisdom of…
Pablo Torre Finds OutShare & Tell-ichick (Super Bowl Edition) with Mina Kimes and Dan Le Batard
Who gets to take pride in football, even (and especially) if Sam Darnold is your quarterback? Who gets to lock the gates on excellence, even if you're snubbing…
Pablo Torre Finds OutThe Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men
What does being Robert Pera's "co-owner" even mean? Why can't a sports executive wear his team's uniform? And what do the layoffs at The Washington Post and…