Pablo Torre Reacts To His Historic Pulitzer Prize Win | Hour 2

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4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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"It's my honor to address the galactic senate..." Pablo Torre tells us about the emotions he felt when he found out about his Pulitzer Prize and who he told first, explains to the crew what's next in his reporting on Aspiration, Steve Ballmer, and the Los Angeles Clippers, gives his opinion on Mortal Kombat II, and stuffs Jeremy in a locker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast.
0:07.6	Put it on the poll, Juju.
0:09.3	Is Timothy Shalame now the number one New York Knicks fan?
0:14.5	Valid question.
0:15.4	Let's bring aboard Pablo Torre, who is having a huge 24 hours.
0:20.5	That's right. Pulitzer Prize winning Pablo Torre.
0:24.8	Pablo. Pablo finds out. Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. Pablo, congratulations. Are you finding
0:34.3	yourself over the last 24 hours or however long it is that you've known now as emotional at times as Amin has been with this tremendous honor?
0:43.3	Getting to say Amin's name to the newsroom of the New York Times as they celebrated photography in Gaza and investigations in the Trump administration and us doing a Doc Rivers impression
0:56.3	about a salary cap-themed episode
0:59.0	is something that I don't think,
1:02.1	even the boldest Metal Arc Media founder
1:04.9	would have ever dreamed of.
1:07.0	Look, this was, I am inarticulate
1:10.8	about how much it means to everybody who made these episodes.
1:15.2	But for me, this is legitimately a celebration of how as well as what.
1:20.6	Like I was talking to everybody at the Times building where we are in this licensing deal with the athletic and they were kind enough to have us celebrate with them.
1:29.0	And we made it clear, like, this was our reporting.
1:31.7	This was our own weird style.
1:33.7	And what was so energizing was that people were bringing up the how.
1:39.4	Like, David Samson and Amin al-Hasson, opening folders, right?
1:43.5	Like, a lot of what journalism is about, it turns out, is not merely what you're saying,
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