Share & Bezos & Tell with Ezra Edelman and David Remnick
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What does the death of The Washington Post sports section mean for the future of sports, journalism and propaganda? Was "Melania" a movie — or crypto? And how does LeBron guarantee his story now? Plus: Tony Kornheiser, Paul Thomas Anderson, Nuke LaLoosh, New Yorker clickbait, Carmelite nuns, the glue of commonality... and the uselessness of despair.
Further content:
• "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight" (David Remnick)
• "The Crackin', Shakin', Breakin' Sounds" (Nat Hentoff, 1964)
• "A Day with the Duke" (Whitney Balliett, 1970)
• Subscribe to "The New Yorker Radio Hour"
• Watch "O.J.: Made in America"
Previously on PTFO:
• The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman (Finally) Speaks
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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. |
| 0:06.5 | By the way, Pablo, you're going to be fucking getting me in trouble with the entire universe because I can't fucking help myself. |
| 0:13.0 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:20.0 | This is quite zippy. |
| 0:21.6 | I've got such a shit studio because we only first started, you know, having this good sense to do it on YouTube recently, and it's really primitive. |
| 0:30.6 | I don't think the New Yorker would approve of the color scheme here. |
| 0:34.6 | I love it. |
| 0:35.6 | By the way, the other thing, David, like, you asked why, what we're doing, you already |
| 0:40.0 | know what we're doing, but I basically said yes, if there were someone that I would be |
| 0:45.9 | interested in doing this with and would give me necessary cover because he's a pain in the |
| 0:50.6 | fucking ass. And so I'm like, if there's a real journalist who still, like, does things, and I'm like, okay. The journalist and conscience of my show has arrived to degrade me and to approve of David Remnick. Well, I think that's called being off to a good start. Yeah. Could you introduce David for those who are not familiar with David as right? I'll have you, David, do the same and take the burden off of me as the host. |
| 1:13.0 | David Remnick, |
| 1:14.4 | his eminence, is the |
| 1:16.4 | editor-in-chief of |
| 1:18.2 | the New Yorker magazine, one of |
| 1:20.6 | the crown jewels of American |
| 1:22.4 | media, who |
| 1:23.7 | I will also say is one of the |
| 1:26.4 | clearest writers of prose we have in American letters. |
| 1:30.2 | Thank you. Tony Cornheiser says something about you, by the way, that I want to share. This I got to hear. He says, we don't do Ezra? Well, we'll do Ezra in a second. Oh, I'm fine with that. We'll do Ezra in a second. Cornheiser says about you, David, that you're the only person he knows who has gotten smarter |
| 1:46.6 | as he got older. |
| 1:48.4 | Tony's gotten dumber? |
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