This Was Goth Tennis: Confessions of a Teenage Champion (PTFO Vault)
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
For 27 years, filmmaker Mickey Duzyj carried a prideful secret history: He'd been the Dracula version of Ben Shelton in late-'90s Detroit, with his very own bleacher crows, a very special coach… and a deal with the devil.
(This episode originally aired October 24, 2024.)
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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. |
| 0:28.7 | And so I am. |
| 0:30.8 | On Substack, my newsletter at www.pablo.show. |
| 0:35.2 | We'll put a link in the show notes of this episode. I have turned on paid |
| 0:38.9 | subscriptions. And if you didn't know I have a substack, guess what? It's free. And that's still |
| 0:43.8 | there for you, and it's worth it. But the paid subscribers who support this show and us will get |
| 0:50.6 | legitimately cool, personalized benefits to come. |
| 0:54.6 | We will make it worth your while. |
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| 0:58.6 | Click the link in the show notes, help support us. |
| 1:01.2 | Please, thank you, thank you, thank you, on that front. |
| 1:04.3 | And this, this episode today is a hand-picked episode from deep inside the PTFO vault |
| 1:11.0 | that we sincerely hope you enjoy. |
| 1:14.8 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 1:16.7 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 1:20.9 | I wanted my opponents to be so demoralized by my playing style |
| 1:24.0 | that they'd utterly unravel in front of me. |
| 1:27.2 | Right after this ad. |
| 1:34.0 | At an event, at the beginning of something, you do kind of like the bro clap. |
| 1:38.7 | Oh, yeah. |
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