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Pablo Torre Finds Out

Does Nikola Jokić Love Horses More Than Basketball?

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The MVP is obsessed with the ancient sport of harness racing — because it may be hiding in plain sight as more exciting than the NBA playoffs. Acclaimed documentarian Mickey Duzyj talks to a GOAT and plays stable boy, then heads to the track to root on the official stallion of the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.0

Brushing Dingellberries out of a tail. That's the clinical term?

0:09.0

Yeah, it made me feel a closeness that I'd never felt for a horse before.

0:16.1

Right after this ad.

0:18.8

You're listening to Draft Kings Network. So I was, you know, when I was cleaning the stall I was stepping in like a lot of

0:40.0

fecal matter. Yeah. I just like got right into my car and drove like the two hours.

0:45.0

Oh God.

0:46.5

And about like five minutes in I was like, Jesus what?

0:50.0

Crawled in the car and died.

0:52.0

And it only dawned on me an hour in that, oh, there was like,

0:56.4

shit all over my boots.

0:58.1

Okay, so we're gonna explain that,'re going to explain how it is that Mickey

1:04.7

Duje, my friend, who also happens to be my favorite illustrator slash

1:08.2

documentary and slash animator hybrid in sports, ended up soiling his Volvo. Mickey by the way is an Emmy nominated

1:15.6

creator of the Netflix series losers and lots of other cool stuff but today he has

1:20.0

just come back from an assignment for me, a reporting assignment for

1:24.0

PTFO, and it might be the most absurd assignment we've given to a correspondent to

1:28.6

date, which is saying a lot. But before we get into all of that, I do need you to become familiar with the viral

1:36.3

video clip that kind of inspired all of this, a clip that we here cannot stop thinking

1:41.3

about. Because this video is of Nugget Superstar

1:46.0

Nikola Yolkich, one of the most walled-off press averse and seemingly self-loathing celebrities on the planet

1:56.0

insofar as the guy is the best player in the NBA

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