But Make It Sports

EPISODE 63: Your Super Bowl mysteries, solved.

Before I get to today’s episode: I should mention that my friend David Epstein, who writes an excellent Substack called Range Widely, invited me to do a Q&A that gets deep into what PTFO is trying to do here — structurally, topically, and conceptually. I think Dave is as sharp a writer and thinker as there is, pretty much. And so it is an honor for his brain to write about ours.

But as for this last show of the week: every so often, our show dares to open its phone lines — 513-85-PABLO — and deploy the power of journalism to answer your increasingly unhinged voicemails.

This month, naturally, PTFO’s detective agency has been working on your most intriguing Super Bowl-themed questions. Which led us to investigate a list of topics which include:

• Why the best Super Bowl concert of all time was a press conference Prince held for 800 credentialed reporters who refused to clap

• Whether the human being (?) behind the brilliantly viral ArtButMakeItSports account can prove — in person! — that he does not use artificial intelligence

• How many commercial products Shaq has endorsed on television

• Why Taylor Swift’s cat is our first-ever PTFO Purrrson of the Year

And more.

As always, I apologize for Ryan Cortes.

DKN/YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERTS:

Sobbingly,

Pablo

P.S. Next Tuesday… something very different.