PTFO - Tearin' Up My Charts: How MTV's 'Total Request Live' (and Pop-Culture Democracy) Got Rigged

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.6 • 31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Prepare yourself for the warm glow of late-'90s nostalgia: In the era of boy-band supremacy (and a little Korn), the 'TRL' countdown was America's high-school cafeteria — a daily election of cool for youth culture. Until one fateful day in music history, twenty five years ago this week, when a chain letter set off a movement to hack the vote. Correspondent Yourgo Artsitas examines whether MTV's shadow government was protecting the the sanctity of our culture... with a lie. Learn more: https://trolldoc.com/ 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
0:05.0	this sound is. Today's show folks, brace yourselves. If there's a railing or a wall or
0:10.6	a post of some kind for you to hold on to, I urge you to do so.
0:13.4	Right after this ad.
0:14.7	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey! So we haven't done this before.
0:37.0	So we haven't done this before.
0:40.0	I feel like this is the first.
0:43.9	Ring the studio to the middle of Times Square.
0:48.7	Dragged me out of the studio to go in a pilgrimage,
0:51.4	that's right.
0:52.4	And what was the language you used to describe where we're headed?
0:56.0	A landmark of democracy.
0:59.0	And the reason why I wanted you, Bradley Campbell, noted,
1:02.0	PolypatoryFi, I wanted you, Bradley Campbell, noted Polypatory finds our correspondent.
1:03.8	Hello.
1:05.0	The reason I wanted you to be doing this episode
1:06.8	is because I wanted to do an episode about democracy
1:09.5	and sports democracy in specific,
1:11.2	because it's an election year, and the power of the vote in
1:15.2	sports is a story. Yeah yeah yeah and so I had this meeting those sorts of
1:20.9	meetings that I have about ideas.
1:23.1	You were there, Cortez was pitching something about Pat Riley.
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