Episodes

  • Share & Rage & Tell with Mina Kimes and Dan Le Batard

    Share & Rage & Tell with Mina Kimes and Dan Le Batard
    Nov 22 2024
    LeBron is taking a break from social media. Should you? Are you ready to stop being performatively fascinating and get authentically dull? And is Bluesky the XFL of Twitter — or a refreshingly Musk-free community worth joining? Plus: "Re-Potting with Pablo," making lentil, fighting in Temecula, road rage, Mastodon, two ejaculating giraffes, a charging wildebeest and the actually hungry hippo (with suspenders and a pocket watch). Relevant reading: How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth (Mike Isaac) The Age of Social Media Is Ending (Ian Bogost) The Bluesky Bubble (Ian Bogost) "With so much hate and negativity in the world today..." (Rich Kleiman) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • Nate Silver Is Still Gambling with His Reputation

    Nate Silver Is Still Gambling with His Reputation
    Nov 21 2024
    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/ Subscribe to Silver Bulletin: https://www.natesilver.net/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • It's Time to Remember One of the Worst Athletes Ever

    It's Time to Remember One of the Worst Athletes Ever
    Nov 19 2024
    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": Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • The Sporting Class: Caitlin Clark's Next Big Payday

    The Sporting Class: Caitlin Clark's Next Big Payday
    Nov 15 2024
    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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Watching the Dallas Cowboys on Death Row: Our Visit to a Supermax Prison

    Watching the Dallas Cowboys on Death Row: Our Visit to a Supermax Prison
    Nov 14 2024
    As depressing as the American system of capital punishment remains, a staggering number of prisoners use their last words... to root on their favorite sports team. Correspondent David Fleming travels to see Charles Flores, who has maintained his innocence while living in solitary confinement — 23 hours a day, for 25 years and counting, as Inmate No. 999299 at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. Turns out, you can still play fantasy football and cook enchiladas on game day. Even while fighting his case and awaiting his fate, Flores finds beauty in the mundane — and a mental escape in shouting out, "How 'bout them Cowboys?!" Learn more: https://www.freecharlesflores.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Our Election-Free Share & Tell with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne

    Our Election-Free Share & Tell with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne
    Nov 12 2024
    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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • "America's Biggest Failure": Share & Election & Tell with Wyatt Cenac and Tim Miller

    "America's Biggest Failure": Share & Election & Tell with Wyatt Cenac and Tim Miller
    Nov 8 2024
    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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • The News Anchor America Needed

    The News Anchor America Needed
    Nov 7 2024
    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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    50 mins