Episodes

  • Share & Cool & Tell with David Dennis Jr. and Mina Kimes

    Share & Cool & Tell with David Dennis Jr. and Mina Kimes
    May 30 2025
    In another episode of Share & Tell, Mina Kimes (who peaked in college) and David Dennis Jr. (who was Steph Curry’s original Splash Brother) join Pablo Torre to define what “cool” even means, for present-day athletes and fans. Are athletes like Tyrese Haliburton and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander trying too hard to generate “aura”? Is Aaron Judge too big to be cool? Is a decidedly unc wardrobe an asset or liability for Jalen Hurts? We conduct the inaugural PTFO Coolest Athlete Draft to find out. Further content: • Toward a Unified Theory of Uncool (Ock Sportello) https://www.neverhungover.club/p/toward-a-unified-theory-of-uncool • Subscribe to the Mina Kimes YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@minakimes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    51 mins
  • Dangerous Minds: How Stephen Glover Baffled Hollywood

    Dangerous Minds: How Stephen Glover Baffled Hollywood
    May 29 2025
    We're starving for things that make us think and make us laugh. And so we welcome back the multi-hyphenate co-creator of Atlanta, Stephen Glover, who takes Pablo on a behind-the-scenes Hollywood tour in which we encounter Liam Neeson, Goofy, Coolio and Dan Le Batard. Not to mention the bizarre Atlanta cameos that worked out (from Black Justin Bieber to the time Stephen's older brother, Donald Glover, raced Michael Vick) and the ones that almost did (from Steve Harvey to Stephen A. Smith). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    46 mins
  • One Yard at a Time: A Mystery

    One Yard at a Time: A Mystery
    May 27 2025
    Under-recruited running back from a collapsed American city — with a single mom and a dream — wins the Super Bowl. Sounds familiar, right? But NFL coach Deland McCullough’s story, as told through his new book with Sarah Spain, has a twist all its own. (Thanks to a little help from Sir Mix-a-Lot.) P.S. One correction, at the 17:50 mark: Deland McCullough’s senior year of college was 1995, not 2005. • Read "Runs in the Family": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Runs-in-the-Family/Sarah-Spain/9781668036280 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    50 mins
  • The Belichick Ring Mystery, Solved: How Pablo's Investigation Just Got Weirder

    The Belichick Ring Mystery, Solved: How Pablo's Investigation Just Got Weirder
    May 23 2025
    After his reporting about 24-year-old Jordon Hudson went viral, Pablo re-opens the door on Bill Belichick's personal and professional scandals, presenting Michael Cruz Kayne and Katie Nolan with more clues to unbox — including, but not limited to: the Avengers of geo-guessing, multiple (exclusive) Ring camera videos, two worried homeowners, a smoking gun, a sheer curtain, a man bag... and a five-star review. • Subscribe to "Casuals with Katie Nolan" https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-casuals-with-katie-nolan-255227604/ • Listen to "Sorry for Your Loss" by Michael Cruz Kayne https://www.audible.com/pd/Sorry-for-Your-Loss-Audiobook/B0CGJSXSPF • Previously on PTFO: The Jordon Rules https://www.pablo.show/p/how-we-investigated-jordon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • The Show, the Voice and Grandpa: A PTFO Surprise

    The Show, the Voice and Grandpa: A PTFO Surprise
    May 22 2025
    He became the internet's favorite sports grandfather for playing at least 162 games a year as the Yankees on MLB The Show, for two decades — and keeping score, by hand. What 86-year-old Kim Soriano didn't know, when he sat down to play with Pablo in our studio, is that Jon "Boog" Sciambi — the video game's announcer and the best voice in baseball — was doing the play-by-play, live. And what happened next will make you fall in love with the game all over again... into the great beyond. • Previously on PTFO: The Best Voice in Sports Goes Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMdaTnTrXco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”

    The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
    May 20 2025
    He has hosted the same television show nearly 5,000 times — every weekday, at 5 p.m. Eastern, for more than two decades. (More than Oprah or Letterman ever did.) But now, counting down to Friday's series finale, Tony Reali is feeling the love... and revving up with all the gas left in his tank. Pablo says thank you, with a celebration of an endlessly likeable, familial and deeply weird pipeline of sports journalism — plus a special look back at when Stat Boy first took control of the mute button. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    51 mins
  • The Sporting Class: Worldwide Leaders, Killer Apps, and Michael Jordan's Special Contribution

    The Sporting Class: Worldwide Leaders, Killer Apps, and Michael Jordan's Special Contribution
    May 16 2025
    Can ESPN launch a streaming app built to last? Is Trump already sports-washing his shiny new Air Force One? And what the hell is the GOAT gonna do for the NBA on NBC? Pablo travels back inside the C-suite of sports business with John Skipper and David Samson. • Subscribe to "Nothing Personal with David Samson"https://www.youtube.com/@npds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil

    Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil
    May 15 2025
    What do Vladimir Putin, David Hasselhoff and a shadowy businessman named The Meat Baron have in common? The remains of a fan-owned German football club that sold its soul, got stuck in the middle of a war, then woke up from a $200 million nightmare... to the basement of the standings. Correspondent Bradley Campbell travels to Gelsenkirchen, a mining town where soccer never stopped — and salvation was always a piece of merch away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
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