We Got Inside Knicks Surveillance — and MSG's Deep State Is Stranger Than You Think
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tracking players. Monitoring kids. Allegedly watching a fan enter the bathroom. The panopticon of notorious owner James Dolan has been caught in glimpses. But a WIRED investigation — revealed in collaboration with PTFO — lifts the veil on the Orwellian scope (and occasional clown show) of MSG security, from The Garden and The Sphere to the streets of New York and out across America. Correspondent Noah Shachtman and Pablo hear from spooked insiders, read snooping group chats, scour a second-by-second confidential report, plus view the facial-recognition database itself — only to discover that paranoid billionaires... are all around us.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:02.0 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:06.5 | When I walked into the studio, right, did you recognize my face? |
| 0:10.2 | I did. |
| 0:10.8 | Facial recognition. |
| 0:12.4 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:20.1 | So what are we doing? We're talking about the playoffs? |
| 0:23.1 | You're talking about how every time I walk around our city, both of us are from Manhattan, born and raised. |
| 0:29.6 | People yell at me, don't go after Jalen Bronson. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, absolutely not. |
| 0:36.3 | Leave the Knicks alone is the number one bit of feedback that I get while doing my |
| 0:42.3 | power walks around the city, which is how I exercise as the Knicks are entering the playoffs. |
| 0:48.3 | It's very clear that people are afraid that a show like this that cares about investigating |
| 0:54.0 | stuff might partner |
| 0:54.9 | with someone like Noah Shackman to do an episode about the New York next. |
| 0:59.4 | And so this is a collaboration that we've done with you in Wired Magazine. |
| 1:03.1 | It's a big new feature you have. |
| 1:04.8 | Double byline, you and Bobby Silverman. |
| 1:06.8 | And we got documents, Noah. |
| 1:08.8 | We sure do. |
| 1:10.0 | I want to introduce you to the proceedings here |
| 1:12.3 | with a line from your article, if that's okay. |
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