Bobbleheads on Spikes: The (Selfish) Case for Rules, with David Epstein
10/04/2026 | 40 min
Whether it's A.I. companies pirating millions of books or NBA owners violating the salary cap, the most powerful entities in America are trying to circumvent laws created to restrain them. Bestselling author and investigative journalist David Epstein (no relation!) makes the case for why rules are not obstacles to progress, but the opposite: the very things that make a society — and a market — free.
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The Banned Prince Documentary: Director Ezra Edelman Speaks (PTFO Vault)
09/04/2026 | 43 min
America's best documentary filmmaker spent nearly five years making a nine-hour masterpiece for Netflix. Which you'll never see. Edelman sits down with Pablo in search of catharsis — if not closure — in the battle for truth and control over the life story of one of the biggest control freaks ever.
(This episode originally aired March 4, 2025.)
• Previously on PTFO: When Docs Cry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qi6x3QF-v8
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Perhaps Our Last Hour on Earth, with Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kayne
08/04/2026 | 58 min
Civilization had a pretty good run. Will the astronauts be the last ones living? Will Jordon Hudson sue Pablo and/or beat him in a foot race? Could Sam Altman be bigger than Madoff and/or complete our curse on A.I.? And is your fiancé in the Epstein files? WHO KNOWS? But we f'd around and took your questions, live. So, come with us if you want to live. So mote it be.
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Share & Squirrel & Tell with Elle Duncan and Desus Nice
03/04/2026 | 40 min
Do we need robot umpires more than we thought? Is Netflix the Yankees of media? What's the best kind of catfishing? And have we finally evolved beyond pizza rat? Plus: Aaron Judge choking, Teanna Trump choking, an old man smoking with a crowd... and the price of free p*rn.
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"Don't Go to the Lakers": We Unraveled the Case of the Mob Hit That Saved Vegas
02/04/2026 | 45 min
When the body of a Vegas power broker showed up in the back of a Rolls Royce in 1979, the new sports capital of America was born. Why the hell did superstar UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian's guy really get whacked? Correspondent Sean Carey unearths police reports, a thrown fight against Sugar Ray Leonard... and a bag man on the skim who re-legitimized Sin City — and proves HBO's hit show wrong.
(Additional reporting by Kris Belman)
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