PTFO - The Last Bromance: How Wrestling Corrupted the NBA Finals

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Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.6 • 31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Did Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone blow the 1998 NBA Finals by promoting their pro-wrestling match... on the court?! Should there be an asterisk?! Is it time for Michael Jordan to relinquish the throne?! Correspondent Neil Punsalan enters a sports marketing wormhole to present Pablo with a box full of evidence, grill eyewitnesses, and put to rest — once and for all — if The Mailman always rings twice. 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.
0:06.0	We can do a double team, triple team, but the NWO is the new team of the future.
0:12.0	Sweet.
0:14.0	Right after this ad.
0:21.6	Get ready for a game changer.
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0:57.1	We've had many strange people on this show.
0:57.4	Yes.
0:58.8	We've had an 86-year-old grandpa.
1:00.9	Recently, we had a NASA scientist.
1:08.0	We had a former federal prosecutor, a U.S. senator, Action Bronson, and well beyond, and for legal reasons, I can't even say so much how beyond we tend to go.
1:13.1	This, though, might be a new raising of the bar for what we're about to unveil here for people.
1:20.6	I'm really excited to make my case.
1:22.5	Thank you for doing this, Neil Punsalan. I'm an honor to have you on the show.
1:26.1	I'm super excited. I came in with the idea of if I could just get one of the people that listen to your show,
1:31.9	one of your devoted fan base, if I could get just one person to believe me, and I'm now at the
1:36.5	point, I'm so excited, there's an electricity coursing through my body.
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