PTFO - The Great Once

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Dan Le Batard

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4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As history was made this month, The Great One sat in a luxury box with the NHL commissioner and... the conspiracy-theorist director of the FBI. Has Wayne Gretzky become a political Mr. Magoo? Or legitimate friends with an American president who's trying to make the GOAT’s homeland his 51st state? Bruce Arthur, the Toronto Star columnist and conscience of Canada, says our neighbors are "incandescently angry.” And we investigate the world of Kash Patel and the Congressional Hockey Caucus. Further reading: Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky's unbreakable record, but his greatness is only part of the story https://www.thestar.com/sports/nhl/alex-ovechkin-breaks-wayne-gretzkys-unbreakable-record-but-his-greatness-is-only-part-of-the/article_aadfb162-f387-4289-b144-ebe18e4c3002.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
0:01.9	I am Pablo Torre.
0:03.2	Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.
0:05.7	Draft Kings, the crown is yours.
0:08.5	And today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:11.8	I have no political power with the prime minister or the president.
0:15.3	That's between those two guys and that's why you hold elections.
0:18.6	And that's why people get to do what they want to do
0:20.9	and say what they want to say.
0:22.6	Right after this ad.
0:25.5	You're listening to Draft Kings Network.
0:46.2	I have a buddy in politics who wants me to become a conscience of Canada podcast, and I'm like, I don't know, man.
0:51.9	Your brand as the conscience of Canada, though, is why you're here talking to me.
0:54.8	Because you are. That's why, Bruce, stop fighting it.
0:57.6	Stop fighting it. You are the conscience of Canada.
0:58.8	It's a great tagline.
1:00.7	I don't know if I should be. Should I be?
1:03.7	I don't, that's a weighty one. That's a heavy one.
1:07.6	It has never been more urgently required as I. Oh my God, yeah. Dude, I ask myself, who do I want to talk to as I have imminent questions and fascinations
1:15.0	about what the fuck is happening as it regards the American-Canadian relationship?
1:22.0	And immediately, I was like, I just got to get Bruce on a call.
1:29.5	One of the most dramatic stories in sports turned into one of the strangest mysteries
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