How Microtransactions (Almost) Ruined Gaming, with Dan Soder | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2026-09-23 | How Microtransactions (Almost) Ruined Gaming, with Dan Soder | PTFO
Im Team Ballmer! Mark Cuban vs. Pablo Torre Got HEATED on the Kawhi Leonard Scandal | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-09-05 | As the NBA announced an investigation in response to Pablo Torre's reporting on the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard, he turned a Twitter war into a revealing Mark Cuban interview. About Steve Ballmer and Aspiration. About the secret world of billionaires and sports ownership. About oversight and due diligence and responsibility. About scams and sharks and toilets and, yes, Uncle Dennis.• Previously on PTFO: Kawhi Leonard Signed a Secret $28M Deal. Steve Ballmer Funded a Fraud. We Followed the Money.youtube.com/watch?v=1OwzYk6OCFM• Subscribe to Pablo Torre Finds Out on YouTube:youtube.com/@PabloTorreFindsOut• Subscribe to Pablo Torre Finds Out on Apple Podcasts:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pablo-torre-finds-out/id1685093486• Subscribe to Pablo Torre Finds Out on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/4SnPenz2D55YPQi0m5Q27k• Subscribe to Pablo's newsletter for exclusive access, documents and invites:https://www.pablo.show/
The timeline on Kawhi Leonards team-friendly deal, the Clippers new stadium and KL2 Aspire LLC PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-09-04 | Just months after the Clippers broke ground on Intuit Dome and re-signed Kawhi Leonard to a team-friendly deal, Leonard's "KL2 Aspire LLC" was registered in the state of California.
In this agreement, its a termination for cause if hes not an employee of the team. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-09-04 | Kawhi Leonard’s $28M endorsement deal for a tree-planting company included an out... in case he didn't play for the Clippers anymore.
Kawhi Leonard Signed a Secret $28M Deal. Steve Ballmer Funded a Fraud. We Followed the Money. | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-09-03 | Did the richest owner in sports sweeten the pot for the most private star in the NBA? Pablo Torre investigates a tree-planting green bank called Aspiration... unearths more than 3,000 pages of exclusive documents... and speaks to high-level sources, ultimately linking Kawhi Leonard's "no-show" endorsement deal to his contracts with the Clippers; to his Uncle Dennis; and to owner Steve Ballmer's personal $50M investment in a company that's now being probed by the U.S. government. Former front-office executives Amin Elhassan and David Samson react to the reporting and wonder how Adam Silver will look into these new allegations of salary-cap circumvention — and whether Ballmer's money took "a round trip."• Subscribe to Pablo Torre Finds Out on YouTube:youtube.com/@PabloTorreFindsOut• Subscribe to Pablo Torre Finds Out on Apple Podcasts:podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pablo-torre-finds-out/id1685093486• Subscribe to Pablo Torre Finds Out on Spotify:open.spotify.com/show/4SnPenz2D55YPQi0m5Q27k• Subscribe to Pablo's newsletter for exclusive access, documents and invites:https://www.pablo.show/
Are Tom Brady and Tony Romo Any Good at Broadcasting? PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-09-02 | THROWBACK CLIPYou might think that calling a game is easy. That Tom Brady can do this in his sleep. Jon "Boog" Sciambi, announcer for the Chicago Cubs and "MLB: The Show," teaches Pablo why the human voice is an instrument that requires restraint and distinction to record the first draft of sports history, then pass it down like an heirloom.
How Adam Friedland Went from Podcaster to The Millennial Jon Stewart PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-29 | THROWBACK CLIP:The host of “The Adam Friedland Show” is here to come out of the closet as the secret inspiration for one of PTFO’s most controversial episodes. Also: Pablo and Adam’s (real) LSAT scores; loving Kobe; telling Kobe how your ass tastes; @perfectbooties; if LeBron is the Millennial Michael Jordan; the secrets of good interviewing; calling Tony Kornheiser; photo shoots; campus protests; dunking on Chris Cuomo; Jonathan Livingston Seagull; cucking Richard Nixon; and value premises.
“She Ran His Life”: How Jordon Hudson Placed Herself into Every Aspect of Bill Belichick’s Existence PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-28 | Throwback Clip!Pablo Torre spoke to 11 sources who've dealt with Bill Belichick's girlfriend directly — and the Jordon Hudson story is even weirder than it seemed on the viral CBS interview. There is deep concern that she is destroying the legacy and reputation of the greatest coach ever, even if she's been banned from the UNC football facility. Plus: Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne reveal our reporting from a sex-toy shop in Hudson's hometown and from her ex-boyfriend's wine reviews. That... and the story of the yellow polka-dot bikini commercial.
Andrew Luck, you know, saw who he needed to be as a quarterback and didnt like that guy. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-25 | ...
Were Not Taking Any Offers: The Story Behind Arch Mannings Ruthless Recruitment PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-25 | Peyton Manning sends voice memos. Eli Manning kept his therapy confidential. Now here comes the next generation in Arch Manning's 2025 season at Texas. Seth Wickersham joins Pablo Torre for a case study in the evolution of under-center royalty.• Buy Seth Wickersham's new book, "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback"penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789617/american-kings-by-seth-wickersham
Why is it that one family has figured out how to do the hardest job in all of sports? PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-24 | ...
The star quarterback has reached presidential status in American culture PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-23 | ...
Joe Burrow mentally has to go where he not only doesnt feel doubt, he feels nothing at all. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-22 | ...
The night before Super Bowl 53, Tom Brady was writing affirmations in his playbook. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-22 | ...
Arch Mannings recruitment was INTENSE. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-22 | "Daddy's on me."Arch Manning's recruitment got so intense that, per Seth Wickersham, an Alabama assistant said he "hoped [Steve Sarkisian] can stay sober" on a Zoom call with Arch, Cooper, and Arch's high-school coach.With "Daddy" being Nick Saban.
How can the Manning family can be SO good at the most glamorous — and criticized — job in sports? PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-22 | "When Arch asks his uncles for help, he tends to ask Peyton the football questions. And then Peyton leaves him like a seven-minute voice message. Peyton loves the voice message... And then when he calls Eli, it tends do be about, 'How do you handle fame? How do you handle scrutiny?’"
Arch Mannings Family Secrets, from Peyton, Eli... and Tom Brady | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-22 | Peyton Manning sends voice memos. Eli Manning kept his therapy confidential. Then there was the secret footage of Tom Brady. Now here comes the next generation in Arch Manning's 2025 season at Texas. Seth Wickersham joins Pablo Torre for a case study in the evolution of under-center royalty, from Bob Waterfield and Jane Russell to Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift. And we learn how the most glamorous job in America is misunderstood — even by the stars who mastered it.• Buy Seth Wickersham's new book, "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback"penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789617/american-kings-by-seth-wickersham
If Bill James says youre good at sports analytics, youre probably pretty good at it. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-21 | Martin Manley was once hailed as the "Bill James of Basketball" on national television. Soon after, the basketball world would never hear from him again.
Let’s raise a glass to the life, and occasional brilliance, of Martin Manley. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-21 | And listen to "Chasing Basketball Heaven" from ESPN's 30 for 30 podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chasing-basketball-heaven/id1825899725
The NBA Forgot Martin Manley. You Shouldnt. | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-21 | He was the Bill James of hoops. A forefather of sports analytics who saw numbers as colors. Whose book, "Basketball Heaven," helped usher in the Steph Curry era. And who failed. But Martin Manley also left behind a map. Reporters Nick Altschuller and Rich Levine adapt their new "30 for 30" podcast — produced by our parent company Meadowlark Media and Adam McKay's Hyperobject Industries, in partnership with ESPN.(If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.)• Listen to all six episodes of "Chasing Basketball Heaven":30for30podcasts.com
Darren Aronofsky on why he chose conquistador sci-fi over the franchise that became Batman Begins PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-20 | ...
“You get everything you want when you no longer want it that much” PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-19 | ...
Darren Aronofsky on being moved by Austin Butlers performance in his new film, Caught Stealing PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-19 | "I think that is like a super-important thing that people are doing less and less of when they're scrolling: You're not really separating yourself. You're usually jealous or, you know, all different types of thoughts are going through your head. But in a movie, you’re going on a long, emotional journey with someone else. And that's a deeply human act."
Darren Aronofsky on Caught Stealing, Requiem for a Dream, and the Batman He Never Made | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-19 | In our dystopian times, director Darren Aronofsky's new movie — Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler as a former MLB prospect — is a departure: a dose of optimism, unlike anything he's ever made. Aronofsky talks to Pablo Torre about those Requiem for a Dream scenes (R.I.P. A$$ TO A$$), Batman Year One, the "peak humanity" of 1990s New York City, and why you get everything you want when you no longer want it that much.
Football Manager is BACK?! Meet the Mastermind Behind Football’s Most Addicting Game PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-18 | Football Manager got so good at simulating soccer that it converted a worldwide army of real-life players, coaches, and executives into genuine obsessives — changing the multi-billion dollar soccer industry itself. PTFO’s London correspondent, Kieran Morris, embarks on a global quest to explain the Football Manager revolution.
Adam Friedland on Cum Town and the birth of The Adam Friedland Show PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-15 | "I never listened to it at the time... We thought it was terrible."
Adam Friedland watched Joe Rogan to learn how to conduct interviews for The Adam Friedland Show PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-15 | "I went on Wikipedia for journalism because I didn't know how to do interviews... I was like, 'Who's good at interviews?"
Mike Florio on David Whites elevation to interim NFLPA executive director PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-15 | "So even though Lloyd Howell didn't pan out, instead of swinging the pendulum back the other way, they just, as we previously established, elevated his first runner up from a process that was hopelessly inept"
Adam Friedland Derailed the Lakers Playoff Run | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-15 | The host of “The Adam Friedland Show” is here to come out of the closet as the secret inspiration for one of PTFO’s most controversial episodes. Also: Pablo and Adam’s (real) LSAT scores; loving Kobe; telling Kobe how your ass tastes; @perfectbooties; if LeBron is the Millennial Michael Jordan; the secrets of good interviewing; calling Tony Kornheiser; photo shoots; campus protests; dunking on Chris Cuomo; Jonathan Livingston Seagull; cucking Richard Nixon; and value premises.
That letter is sent threatening legal action, and then theres a cover-up of the cover-up. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-14 | To this day, new NFLPA executive director David White denies trying to initiate a lawsuit against a filmmaker who tried to expose child abuse in Hollywood. But, we have the receipts.
It was all about how a leader reacts to a crisis situation. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-14 | We investigated how new NFLPA executive director David White reacted when a documentarian was exposing pedophilia in Hollywood.
The NFLPA Elected a New Leader — and Ignored an “Open Secret” | Part 4 | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-14 | If you’ve been asking Pablo to discuss Jeffrey Epstein… this episode is for you. The NFLPA’s election of a new executive director, David White, has brought a new level of spin, and denial, about a major scandal — and cover-up — during his tenure atop SAG-AFTRA. So PTFO summons Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio back for a fourth (!) installment of their endless NFL investigation. And with the help of a brave new character, we attempt to do what this union only says they did: tell the truth about the leadership they chose.
Pablo, Katie and Michael go on the hunt for a very specific image of Britney Spears from 2003... PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-13 | "Does this resemble the top of your wife's head?"
How was your day?... I honestly wish I hadnt asked PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-13 | Michael Cruz Kayne shares how he and his wife live very different lives with Pablo and Katie Nolan.
Pablo was jaw-maxxing directly into the camera at a taping of Michael Cruz Kaynes special PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-12 | Katie Nolan caught Pablo Torre mewing at the camera throughout the show once they realized they were being filmed.
Michael Cruz Kayne can handle the chaos of a live show PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-12 | Michael Cruz Kayne tells Pablo Torre and Katie Nolan about a scary incident during one of his live shows.
Her most challenging role was all the children in a Japanese train wreck PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-12 | Michael Cruz Kayne came across Joan Gerber, who had a particularly challenging role...
“You won’t believe it. He just says Hamburger all the time” PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-12 | The latest Share & Tell with Pablo Torre, Michael Cruz Kayne and Katie Nolan is live now. WE’RE BACK!
A Britney Spears Mystery, the Best Catchphrase in Comedy, & How to Tape a Standup Special | PTFO PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-12 | In another edition of Share & Tell, Pablo, Katie Nolan, and Michael Cruz Kayne dissect an evening they spent together; how to react to a fart from onstage; vasectomies; peak Britney Spears; and the legend of Alonzo “Hamburger” Jones. Plus: mewing, boofing, rooves, Wendy Wetface, Japanese Student No. 9 and Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.• Previously: “How Science Ruined Grief,” with Michael Cruz Kayne https://www.pablo.show/p/how-science-ruined-grief• Subscribe to "Casuals with Katie Nolan"youtube.com/katienolan
Wilts 100-point game may be questioned... but not for the reasons youre thinking. PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-06 | ...
We Have PROOF Wilt Chamberlain Actually Scored 100 Points PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-06 | THROWBACK CLIPOn March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain conjured the supernatural. Why do so many people now think it was fake news, instead of real sports history? Our quest for irrefutable proof (and poetry) unpacks boxes that you won't find in the Hall of Fame: The tapes from an author who interviewed 56 people in attendance. The radio highlights, which we unearthed from a basement closet and a vault in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Plus: the last witness left standing to check the facts — and shake a fist at the naysayers.
Why so Many NBA Players Smoke Weed BEFORE Games, with Matt Barnes | PTFO Throwback PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-04 | From April 2024.If you want to trace the normalization of weed in sports and America, there is no better ambassador than NBA champion and "All The Smoke" host Matt Barnes. Taking gravity-bong rips to go full "Teen Wolf" in high school? Check. Beating drug tests in college and, uh, having a narc watch him pee — and poop! — during a test in the NBA? Yeah. Smoking with Woody Harrelson on his head coach's balcony, during the playoffs? Really. But the NBA came late to the cannabis party, as "more than half the league… from the superstars to the rookies" got caught in pro basketball's race-baiting, steroid-fearing war on drugs. In a new era of acceptance, marijuana might just help hoopers stop the next Kobe.• From Pablo's Substack: We're One of the 100 Best Podcasts of All Time (Allegedly)https://www.pablo.show/p/were-one-of-the-100-best-podcasts
Things got a bit heated as David Samson and John Skipper broke down the great WNBA salary debate PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT 2025-08-03 | “I don’t have any concern for the billionaires who own teams and are losing pocket change on a WNBA team” - John Skipper
