Three Yards and a Cloud of Grandpa: We Helped Scatter the Ashes of a Die-Hard Fan

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 44 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. 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.
0:06.7	In January, this year, I took Ron's ashes up skydiving. Right after this ad.
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1:03.1	So this is going to be a local news story at first.
1:06.9	And I promise that as with every store, we have Dave Fleming do for us.
1:08.0	Thank you for being here, by the way.
1:08.7	My pleasure.
1:14.7	It gets big and grandiose and cosmic and profound and stupid and smart and all of that. But this is in the tradition of your study of fandom that began arguably on death row in Texas,
1:23.6	our episode last year, which was singular in the genre.
1:27.3	But this is ridiculous in its own right.
1:30.8	This is part of my goff period, I think. Yes. It's Denver. It's a couple years ago. And it's a new
1:39.2	story that starts like this. Interesting story here. Denver 7's Christian Lopez spoke to a man who spread his friend's ashes on the Ave's home ice just as the Zamboni was driving by.
1:58.1	I'm going to laugh at ways that I think we'll be redeemed at some point. But who is this guy? I'm going to laugh at ways that I think we'll be redeemed at some point,
2:02.0	but who is this guy?
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