PTFO - The Fax and the Furious: How One Screeching Machine Upended Sports — and Society as We Knew It

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Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Thirty years ago this month, Michael Jordan shocked the world with a two-word transmission: "I'm back." But the rise and fall of this especially nostalgic technology is inextricably hard-wired to the sports world, from frantic prodigies to foul-mouthed coaches and fans glued to FaxCam. Pablo communes with a relic between himself and J.A. Adande — the Hall-of-Fame sportswriter and long-suffering fax-sender — for a jam session on innovation and increasingly epic fails that plunges PTFO into the literal depths of modern communication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.8	It came in a two-word statement, which is now just begging to have a Nike campaign built around it.
0:11.6	Quote unquote, I'm back. Right after this ad.
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1:02.5	This studio is a time machine today.
1:05.9	We are traveling back in time. Do you remember the relic on our desk here?
1:11.2	I do. I still
1:12.3	technically own a fax machine.
1:14.9	Now, is this a plain paper fax
1:16.5	or is it the thermal paper fax?
1:18.1	This is a plain paper fax. This is,
1:20.2	she is, well, I guess
1:22.4	he is, the brother and
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