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

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4.6 • 31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 51 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.
0:17.2	You're listening to Draft King's Network. This studio is a time machine today.
0:35.8	We are traveling back in time.
0:37.9	Do you remember the relic on our desk here?
0:41.1	I do.
0:41.7	I still technically own a fax machine.
0:44.7	Now, is this a plain paper fax or is it the thermal paper fax?
0:48.0	This is a plain paper fax.
0:49.3	This is, she is, well, I guess he is, the brother in
0:54.2	Telegax, 1570 MC.
0:58.4	From, I believe it's a mid-90s vintage.
1:02.2	Ooh, those sounds.
1:05.4	It sounds like the wheel on prices, right, when it's spinning around.
1:13.8	Yes.
1:14.3	You make this sound somewhere?
1:19.1	That's so satisfying.
1:20.7	First of all, it's just the tactile nature of it touching it.
1:23.9	The haptic sensation of pressing a keypad on a, and again, this is, yeah,
1:30.7	reach over there, yep, it feels good. We don't do that enough. No, we don't dial. Like,
1:36.2	when's the last time you pressed a button? When was the last time you beheld a 15 by 15, 8.5 inch
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