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Pablo Torre Finds Out

The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

He has hosted the same television show nearly 5,000 times — every weekday, at 5 p.m. Eastern, for more than two decades. (More than Oprah or Letterman ever did.) But now, counting down to Friday's series finale, Tony Reali is feeling the love... and revving up with all the gas left in his tank. Pablo says thank you, with a celebration of an endlessly likeable, familial and deeply weird pipeline of sports journalism — plus a special look back at when Stat Boy first took control of the mute button. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.

0:01.9

I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

0:06.1

Do you say goodbye to something that is your heart outside of your body?

0:10.0

I'm about to be showing people that in real time.

0:16.0

Right after this ad.

0:18.6

You're listening to Draft King's Network.

0:22.1

You're listening to Draft King's Network.

0:38.9

You never encountered this, but your armrest hit this and turned your mic off.

0:45.8

You are not the first person to say, we've never encountered this before with something that I do. And yet, if there's anybody whose voice could overcome the lack of active microphone technology, it would be you.

0:55.0

So wait, hold on. Set this scene for me because you're, you just finished.

0:58.1

So we just finished and we've got Cadon, who I haven't seen in five years.

1:01.9

We got Jamel on, who I haven't seen in three years.

1:03.8

And I want them to be able to have the experience that they want on this show.

1:08.8

I want them to play, remember when I want them to, I want to play Remember When, I want

1:11.6

them to feel the love because a big part of what the last couple of months have been for me

1:18.5

is being able to say goodbye. You don't always get the chance to say goodbye. Life will not give

1:23.9

everybody the chance to say goodbye. That's a very sad part of people's lives. Certainly not on

1:28.0

air. That too. So a big thing I'm feeling right now is tell the people in your life what they mean to you,

1:34.1

right? And apply this to everybody across the world. Do this at home. These are homework assignments

1:38.2

I'm passing out in the middle of our little sports banter show, right? So we had all this stuff

1:43.2

going on and I've, you know, put in the work to make the show work for Kate and Jamel today.

1:50.4

And then they show me this video of a guy outside hanging up, you know, doing the sign thing,

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