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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 Out
The Hard Truth About Orgasms in Sports, with Domonique Foxworth
Is sex a performance-enhancing drug? Pablo and Domonique insert themselves into the debate over "post-nut clarity" with exhaustive research, from a pre-game…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Inflategate: Unmasking the Scorekeeper Who Faked NBA History
Do you trust the sanctity of data and proof of objectivity? What if we told you that a guru at the forefront of the analytics revolution... had cooked the…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Found the Voice That America’s Gun Debate Needs
We’ve found a dose of optimism amid America’s exhausting gun debate. And it’s located in the incredible life story of Jason Kander: a former Army intelligence…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
This Is Share & Tell… Now: Katie Nolan, Charlotte Wilder, Pablo, and Our Respective Enemies
Why did Jennifer Lopez self-fund an allegorical $20 million “movie” about her life? (And why did all three of us watch it?) How good are we at the Dutch art of…
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What the World's Greatest (Two-Handed) Bowler Can Teach You About Daring to Look Stupid
It's easy to shot-shame a player at the free-throw line and athletes who throw funny. From the depths of that bullying and loneliness, though, a revolution is…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Both Sides Old: Share & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan "Truffle Pig" Le Batard, and Pablo
Is Tom Brady just going to be a cranky bastard in the broadcast booth? Is Jon Stewart just SUPPOSED to be a cranky bastard on The Daily Show? Will Joe Biden…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Last Dance of Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan
It was either everything that's right or wrong with America, but the very public relationship between Scottie Pippen's ex-wife and Michael Jordan's son is very…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Sex, Love, and One Sick Joke: A Special Sit-Down with Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe
America's stratospheric sports power couple joins our Valentine's Day episode — part unnecessary couples therapy, part post-retirement exit interview — with…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
An Invite-Only Halftime Show, the King of Commercials, and Taylor Swift's Secret Weapon: Your Super Bowl Mysteries, Solved
Pablo's detective agency is back, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday, with the face-melting concert that puts Usher to shame, the flag-football fantasy draft…
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Stretch & Share & Tell: The Keys to Happiness with Amin Elhassan, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo
We're all desperately seeking self-improvement, so Pablo puts aside the spiritual mumbo-jumbo, puts his friends to the test, and emerges with something like…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Super Bowl Tape That the NFL Doesn't Want You to See
Jet packs! Double kickoffs! Protest! The helmet-less, hungover superstar with a dynasty at stake! A killer game clock! Unconsciousness! The first Super Bowl…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
PsyOp & Share & Tell with Mina Kimes, Dan, Pablo, and Elmo
Is the right wing ganging up on two huge things — Taylor Swift and sports itself — precisely because they're huge? Can you go with the flow and still be…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
How Muhammad Ali’s Grammy-Nominated Comedy Album Changed Everything
Float like a butterfly, sting like... a standup comic? Sixty years ago, long before the current golden age of smack talk, a 21-year-old Cassius Clay was…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
What 'Freedom of Speech' Really Means to Dana White and the UFC
At a time when so many are struggling with the regulation of expression, from Elon Musk's X to college campuses to the workplace, why did mixed-martial arts…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Doctor Is In: Katie Nolan and Dan Soder’s Final “Jeopardy!” Share & Tell
The third installment in the historic trilogy that is Katie Nolan vs. Celebrity Jeopardy! is a real journey. A journey through word games, organic chemistry…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Ayahuasca Era: How Neal Brennan Finally Found Joy (and God)
For all of the Aaron Rodgers-ization of psychedelics, they remain revolutionary, and the co-creator of Chapelle's Show turned standup comic has the ultimate…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Why Everyone Says "Let's Gooooooo!": The Lost History of a Phrase, from Shakespeare to Taylor Swift
Quarterbacks yell it. Gamers revel in it. Bros text memes and hashtags of it. And as displayed on live TV in the NFL regular season AND playoffs, even Travis…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
PTFO x Cooligans - Pablo Torre chose chicken fingers over watching Messi’s first Inter Miami goal!
Pablo Torre is known for finding out about things, but in this episode, The Cooligans find out about him! We're hyped to have fellow Meadowlarker and host of…
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Roy Wood Jr.’s Guide to Hosting Awards Shows (and Roasting Joe Biden)
He is one of the most talented stand-ups in America. But Roy Wood Jr. is also of the most deliberate thinkers about his craft. Roasting Joe Biden?…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Pop-Tarts Mascot, Unmasked: Share & Tell with Sarah Spain, Charlotte Wilder, and Pablo
Who was the human inside the viral bowl-game mascot, and is said mascot still alive? We investigate VERY seriously. Plus: Why are so many women drinking out of…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The 'Alpha' Myth, Debunked
From LeBron to Deion and Wall Street to Washington, one pervasive term has come to encapsulate a human desire for domination. Correspondent Bradley Campbell…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Inside the "Jeopardy!" Gauntlet: Share & Tell with Katie Nolan, Dan Soder, and Pablo
How does Katie keep dominating at trivia on national television? Is it vase or vahhze? And what in the Nick Saban was that young man doing stuck in an urn?…
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Why JJ Redick Rejected the NBA to Coach 9-Year-Olds Instead
He could be drawing up plays for superstars, after interviewing with the Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors, and more. But the ESPN commentator and "Old Man & the…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The 'Baseball Bomb' Falling on a School Near You
A battle over academic freedom is boiling over, beyond Harvard, and Florida governor Ron DeSantis and his cronies have already taken over one college in their…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Tell (and Teeth) with Mina Kimes, Dan, and Pablo
Why is Travis Kelce the most famous player in the NFL? How much should you miss booze during Dry January? Where can you get away from everything? Should you…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
On the Witness Stand at the FIFA Bribery Trial with John Skipper
Underground in a Bond-esque bunker. Inside a private club with a league commissioner. Across the table from an executive with a parrot on his shoulder. And…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Heavy Secrets of NFL Weight Loss
They were raised to chug whipping cream and turn every meal into an all-you-can-eat buffet. But somehow, America’s most popular New Year’s resolution is most…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Is Russell Wilson an Undercover Alien Running for President of the United States?
As the Denver Broncos crumble all around Russell Wilson, the superstar quarterback has never been more fascinating. Or more unknowable. But Nate Tice was…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
American Fictions: Why Oscar Contender Cord Jefferson (Still) Gives a F*ck
This year, Emmy-winning screenwriter Cord Jefferson (Watchmen, Succession, The Good Place, Master of None) has become a major Oscar contender for his…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Sex, Lies, and Longevity with TV Legend Maury Povich
You may remember him as the paternity-test king of fever-pitch daytime television. But this renaissance man has seen it all — the JFK assassination, Waco, a…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
A Content Carol with Miserable Pablo Torre
Pablo only understands the true meaning of making this show, not the holiday season. So the ghosts of Christmas break pay him a visit, to pay it forward with…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Multiversal Share & Tell with Wyatt Cenac, Domonique Foxworth, and Pablo/Yoda
"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is the PTFO Movie of the Year™ but how does all this comic-book content feel so new, when constraint is supposed to be…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Whistleblower: Smush Parker Tells His Truth
You may remember Smush Parker from his very public, lopsided beef with the late Kobe Bryant, but there is so much more to the arc of Smush's life story — from…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Tell with Dan Soder, Katie Nolan, Randy Savage, Andre the Giant, Don King, and Pablo
What if the afterlife sounded like a pro wrestler? Does Vivek Ramaswamy have the nuts for a pay-per-view debate with Pablo? And how the hell do you get out of…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
How To Invent a Fake Superstar
As a teenage prankster crashing the football transfer window, Kieran Morris juiced the Wikipedia page for an obscure player across the globe, and word spread…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
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…
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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…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Tell (OnlyDans Edition) with Mina Kimes, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo
Is Bill Belichick now the grandfather you need to take the car keys away from? Is OnlyFans just selling loneliness? Is OnlyDans a thing? And how close did Dan…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
This Is Life Without Your Sense of Taste and Smell
What happens when restaurants become gas stations and farts disappear? You don't take food or fragrance for granted, especially around Thanksgiving. David…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Allow Desus Nice to Re-Introduce Himself
The former co-host of Desus & Mero is also a former strip-club manager, crackhouse re-builder, domain-name seller, dead-rat picker-upper, and, by his own…
Pablo Torre Finds OutWhy Listening to Action Bronson Makes Us Happy
Action Bronson raps, cooks, paints, hosts, and acts (for Martin Scorsese, at least). He also has philosophical explanations for why A) he never wears pants, B)…
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A Heady, Heavy, Heavenly Share & Tell with Wyatt Cenac and Domonique Foxworth
Can magic mushrooms help you see God? Are parents more of a danger to their kids than the world? Are we creating a garbage patch in space? Plus: Courtside…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Donald Trump's Secret Weapon Is a Quarterback
Johnny McEntee went viral before virality, as a trick-shot QB at UConn. He foresaw the rise of Donald Trump, while ordering him KFC on the campaign trail. He…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Tell (Dark Triad Edition) with Katie Nolan, Dan Le Batard, and Pablo Torre(s)
Would you clone your dying dog? Why are burner accounts still a thing? And how much do you REALLY care about what other people think about you? Also: Stephen…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
American Fictions: Why Oscar Contender Cord Jefferson (Still) Gives a F*ck
This fall, Emmy-winning screenwriter Cord Jefferson (Watchmen, Succession, The Good Place, Master of None) has become a major Oscar contender for his…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Inside the Forbidden Love of Michael Jordan's Son and Scottie Pippen's Ex-Wife
It's Shakespearean. It's Freudian. It's a Greek myth with a Real Housewife. Yes, sports fans: Marcus Jordan and Larsa Pippen are getting married. But are they…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Tell with John Skipper and David Samson (or: Rich Guys OnlyFans)
Is the NBA's TV bubble about to burst? Is how we consume sports about to change forever? Hear from the man who reshaped the business itself. Plus: Who’s to…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
What You Should Know About Artificial Intelligence (and Why Centaurs Are Our Future)
Next week, the White House is releasing the first executive order on A.I. in U.S. history. So we asked David Epstein, bestselling author of Range and the best…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Why So Many Athletes Have Tattoos of the Joker: A Special Halloween Investigation
The most important Joker on the court isn't Nikola Jokic or Novak Djokovic. Indeed, the most popular tattoo among our sports heroes is a villain, and PTFO…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
Share & Tell with Katie Nolan & Dwayne Johnson's Friend Ariel Helwani
Why did Ariel Helwani, our planet’s leading combat sports reporter, use ring girls as human shields at a televised Logan Paul melee? What video game is Katie…
- Pablo Torre Finds Out
A Reasonable Solution to the Transgender Athlete Debate
The author of the definitive new book on gender in sports, Katie Barnes, explores how The Right ran up the score on progressives in a political messaging war —…
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The "Field of Dreams" That Hollywood Forgot
Michael Schur is a legendary comedy writer who calls his TV reboot of the classic baseball film "the best thing I've ever written." (He's written for SNL, The…