The Fax and the Furious: How One Screeching Machine Upended Sports — and Society as We Knew It
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Thirty years ago this month, Michael Jordan shocked the world with a two-word transmission: "I'm back." But the rise and fall of this especially nostalgic technology is inextricably hard-wired to the sports world, from frantic prodigies to foul-mouthed coaches and fans glued to FaxCam. Pablo communes with a relic between himself and J.A. Adande — the Hall-of-Fame sportswriter and long-suffering fax-sender — for a jam session on innovation and increasingly epic fails that plunges PTFO into the literal depths of modern communication.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:39.2 | It came in a two-word statement, which is now just begging to have a Nike campaign built around it. |
| 0:43.9 | Quote unquote, I'm back. |
| 0:46.8 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:49.4 | You're listening to Draft King's Network. |
| 1:06.7 | This studio is a time machine today. |
| 1:09.9 | We are traveling back in time. |
| 1:12.8 | Do you remember the relic on our desk here? |
| 1:13.9 | I do. |
| 1:16.8 | I still technically own a fax machine. |
| 1:20.4 | Now, is this a plain paper fax or is it the thermal paper fax? This is a plain paper fax. |
| 1:21.9 | This is, she is, well, I guess he is, brother in Telegax 1570 MC |
| 1:29.5 | from |
| 1:31.0 | I believe it's a mid-90s |
| 1:33.2 | vintage. |
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