Tearin' Up My Charts: How MTV's "Total Request Live" Got Rigged (PTFO Vault)

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The "TRL" countdown was America's high-school cafeteria — a daily election of cool. Until one fateful day, when a chain letter set off a movement to hack the vote. Correspondent Yourgo Artsitas helps us investigate whether MTV's shadow government was protecting the sanctity of our culture... with a lie. (This episode originally aired on March 12, 2024.) • TR(ol)L: New Kids on the Block, Total Request Live and The Chain Letter That Changed the Internet https://trolldoc.com/ • Pablo Torre Finds Out Substack www.pablo.show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, so hello, it is me, Pablo, entering, invading even your ears because I have done something I have not done before, which is take the advice of someone who once told me that if people wish to support you financially, if they wish to support your journalism, your very strange future of journalism, meaning your newsroom,
0:22.5	your ambitions, your desire to investigate things, people don't want you to investigate.
0:27.0	You should let them.
0:28.6	And so I am.
0:30.7	On substack, my newsletter at www.pablo.com.
0:35.3	We'll put a link in the show notes of this episode.
0:37.8	I have turned on paid subscriptions.
0:39.7	And if you didn't know I have a substack, guess what?
0:42.3	It's free.
0:43.1	And that's still there for you, and it's worth it.
0:45.2	But the paid subscribers who support this show and us will get legitimately cool,
0:52.0	personalized benefits to come.
0:54.6	We will make it worth your while.
0:56.3	We are figuring out here at PTFO our post-Draft King's future.
1:01.2	And, you know, more good news on that front, I hope to come.
1:05.0	But in the meantime, Pablo.com is where you sign up.
1:08.5	Click the link in the show notes.
1:10.0	Help support us.
1:11.1	Please, thank you, thank you, thank you, on that front.
1:14.1	And this, this episode today is a handpicked episode from deep inside the PtFO Vault
1:20.8	that we sincerely hope you enjoy.
1:25.9	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
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