We've Been Nominated for Three Emmys

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Screenshots from March 2023 only get more embarrassing from here.

Back in 2023, when our staff was still imagining what PTFO could even be, we kept returning to the idea of a podcast that is also a magazine that is also an independent newsroom that is also a YouTube channel that is also a TV show.

The problem: that show had never existed. (And definitely not three times a week.)

But here in 2026, I could not be prouder of what our team has become.

Last month, the Podcast Academy awarded us Podcaster of the Year and Best Sports Podcast. We are thrilled to be a finalist for a National Magazine Award in May (alongside institutions like NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and Spotify). And the latest update, from the world of television, is especially gratifying:

I did not know that it was possible to be two of the four finalists in the Outstanding Sports Journalism category.

It’s a surreal honor.

And it is really cool to see an independent startup competing — as intended — with shows produced by ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery, Fox, and Amazon:

There is an alternate timeline, somewhere, in which we made a show with a safer concept. I can imagine that show not requiring a whole team of people who are constantly working their asses off to push the boundaries of what we can get away with in this business.

I am extremely lucky that we imagined this one, instead, together.

Thanks for joining us,

Pablo