The News Anchor America Needed

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Turning on the news right now feels utterly surreal. But it didn’t always have to be this way. Because Connie Chung — tenacious TV broadcaster and author of a new memoir — set a gold standard in the pre-internet era. For being unafraid of powerful men. For getting scoops at the bar. For trash-talking. For calling out Donald Trump’s childishness to his face. For withstanding the boorish behavior of Bobby Knight and unearthing the inner pain of Michael Jordan. And, yes, for shutting down the richest man on Earth... even after he jumped over a chair. 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, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.9	Do you really feel like a philanthropic person?
0:09.3	I feel very philanthropic. I really do. And I'm a young guy.
0:12.2	You know, people don't believe that.
0:15.6	Right after this ad.
0:18.3	You're listening to Draft King's Network.
0:21.5	To DrapKings Network.
0:35.3	To be on the internet with you, having truly, like, grown up watching you.
0:39.3	Really?
0:39.9	Yes, of course.
0:40.4	What do you mean really?
0:41.3	No.
0:42.1	Seriously.
0:42.6	I am one of the millions upon millions of Americans who trusted Connie Chung with telling us what the fuck is happening in our world.
0:53.4	Wow, sir.
0:54.7	You were the person inside my television.
0:57.2	Oh, my gosh.
0:58.5	I can't believe it.
1:00.0	It's something that I'm meaning to talk to you about specifically
1:03.1	because what this book did was reveal things about you that I could not get by watching
1:09.8	you on television.
1:10.7	Right. Like what you actually
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