Jun 12, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 10 segments
John welcomes back Pablo Torre, the Pulitzer Prize-winning host of Pablo Torre Finds Out to discuss the collision between the New York Knicks and Donald Trump—and why the team's electrifying Game 4…
John HeilemannHost
Pablo TorreGuest
So, like, I got to say, my first reaction, you know, in addition to... astonishment and tears and everything else was just that moment where I kind of sat back and I just went, sports.
It's the purest distillation I've had in a while of, well, in truth, being at the Otani three home run NLCS game was like this also.
You know, it was like, it's just a different kind of thing, but also just a feeling that you get that sports gives you that nothing else gives you.
There are lots of high-minded arguments about sports and this show traffics in them often.
That's all this fucking show does is traffic in high-minded and often really abstruse.
Isn't it the best when you don't know the ending and people are shitting their pants and other people are not? Right.
And the humiliation of who gets to, I mean, who gets literal, in the case of Victor Ebonyama, literal egg on them by the end of the night.
And who doesn't? Literal egg? He got an egg thrown at him, which I don't co-sign, by the way.
So, like, I got to say, my first reaction, you know, in addition to... astonishment and tears and everything else was just that moment where I kind of sat back and I just went, sports.
It's the purest distillation I've had in a while of, well, in truth, being at the Otani three home run NLCS game was like this also.
You know, it was like, it's just a different kind of thing, but also just a feeling that you get that sports gives you that nothing else gives you.
There are lots of high-minded arguments about sports and this show traffics in them often.
That's all this fucking show does is traffic in high-minded and often really abstruse.
Isn't it the best when you don't know the ending and people are shitting their pants and other people are not? Right.
And the humiliation of who gets to, I mean, who gets literal, in the case of Victor Ebonyama, literal egg on them by the end of the night.
And who doesn't? Literal egg? He got an egg thrown at him, which I don't co-sign, by the way.
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