What the Hell Happened to Phil Mickelson?
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Why did one of the greatest golfers ever turn on his own legacy to become a culture warrior with a T-rex skull? His definitive chronicler, Alan Shipnuck, re-visits the many scandals of "a master manipulator" — and uncovers a pattern among Trump-era men who just want the juice.
• Previously on PTFO: Phil Mickelson, the Pipeline and Trump's (Alleged) 14-Inch Pipe
• Order Alan Shipnuck's bestselling book "Phil"
• Pre-order Alan Shipnuck's new book "Rory"
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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. |
| 0:06.3 | I shouldn't do this. I know this is dangerous. I know this is a bad move. |
| 0:10.0 | Everyone told me not to call this guy. I'm dialing the number. Right after this ad. |
| 0:23.6 | How many jokes can we make in one podcast? |
| 0:26.3 | You and Coppulman set the bar pretty high. |
| 0:27.8 | It's a lot. |
| 0:29.0 | It's too much. |
| 0:31.0 | My mom has informed me. |
| 0:32.6 | It is too much for the record here. |
| 0:34.8 | But I do need to explain Alan Shepnuck. |
| 0:36.2 | Thank you for joining us again, by the way. |
| 0:37.3 | Delighted to be here. I got to explain why you're the guy I've been thinking about as I've been |
| 0:41.1 | dealing with the one and only Phil Mickelson on X, the everything app, in which I have been feeling a bit |
| 0:49.0 | like you, just a glimmer of what your life might have been like as the foremost expert. |
| 0:55.3 | Certainly the author of the book on Phil Mickelson entitled Phil, which you published in 2022. |
| 1:02.1 | But you've become the guy. |
| 1:03.7 | You're the guy I come to because do you remember what he called you, by the way, the quote that I'm about to say? |
| 1:09.2 | Phil's called me many things through the years. |
| 1:11.3 | But with Phil, it's all projection. |
| 1:14.8 | You know, every accusation is a confession. |
| 1:17.8 | It's a little Trumpian in that regard. |
| 1:20.8 | The quote from Phil Mickelson on Twitter, November 22nd, 2023, 5.23 p.m. Eastern was, |
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