PTFO - Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It is the greatest individual performance in basketball history: Sixty-three years ago this weekend, a larger-than-life superhero conjured the supernatural. Why do so many people — including a player on the court — now think it was fake news? Our quest for irrefutable proof (and poetry) unpacks boxes that you won't find in the Hall of Fame: The recordings from author Gary Pomerantz, who spoke to 56 people in attendance and on the court. The tapes, which we unearthed from a rare-book library, a basement closet and a vault in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Plus: the last Warrior left standing to check the facts — and shake a fist at the naysayers. 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. Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.
0:05.7	Graph Kings, the crown is yours. And today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:11.5	I used to hate the fact that there was no video of it, but as time goes on, I think it kind of adds to the mystique of the game.
0:18.9	Right after this ad.
0:21.4	You're listening to Draft King's Network.
0:36.5	When you heard from us, Gary, Pomerantz, that we wanted to do this topic because of what people had been saying on the internet, were you excited?
0:47.8	My intuitive reaction was, here we go again.
0:51.6	My second reaction was something approximating an eye roll.
0:56.5	You know, it's a conspiratorial time.
1:01.0	Here is a bulletin from CBS News.
1:04.5	In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.
1:10.9	You go back to the 1960s, and there were still a lot of questions about the Kennedy assassination.
1:18.2	That's one small step for man.
1:23.4	One giant leap for manned guy.
1:28.2	Did Neil Armstrong really touch the moon, or was he in a studio somewhere in the United States?
1:35.6	So it was that kind of a time, and now, you know, we're unfortunately a bit of a historically illiterate country.
1:42.7	If there's no video, then it didn't happen.
1:45.8	Well, we know the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, but there's no video of that.
1:50.6	We know about Lincoln at Gettysburg. There's no video of that.
1:55.0	Do we, though? Are we sure? Are we sure about that?
1:58.3	We're pretty sure Lincoln was at Gettysburg. Yeah.
2:00.9	And so, you know, for sports fans, you got to lock in on how different the NBA was then
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