Three Yards and a Cloud of Grandpa: We Helped Scatter the Ashes of a Die-Hard Fan
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We are living in the era of Peak Cremation, and fans have turned to our true American cathedral as a final resting place: the sports arena. PTFO death correspondent David Fleming reports on a cottage industry for die-hards in the afterlife — from team-branded urns and exploding golf balls to franchises that want the on-field ceremonies gone (and forgotten). And then, of course, we help a woman named Edna spread her husband's ashes... while riding a convertible, on a racetrack, flooring it into eternity.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.5 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:39.0 | In January, this year, I took Ron's ashes up skydiving. |
| 0:44.7 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:47.2 | You're listening to Giraff Kings Network. |
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| 1:05.3 | So this is going to be a local news story at first. |
| 1:09.2 | And I promise that as with every story, we have Dave Fleming do for us. |
| 1:10.3 | Thank you for being here, by the way. |
| 1:16.9 | My pleasure. It gets big and grandiose and cosmic and profound and stupid and smart and all of that. |
| 1:25.0 | But this is in the tradition of your study of fandom that began arguably on death row in Texas, |
| 1:29.1 | our episode last year, which was singular in the genre. |
| 1:32.2 | But this is ridiculous in its own right. |
| 1:35.6 | This is part of my goff period, I think. |
| 1:36.6 | Yes. |
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