Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Fax and the Furious: How One Screeching Machine Upended Sports — and Society as We Knew It
27 Mar 2025
Thirty years ago this month, Michael Jordan shocked the world with a two-word transmission: "I'm back." But the rise and fall of this especially nostalgic technology is inextricably hard-wired to the sports world, from frantic prodigies to foul-mouthed coaches and fans glued to FaxCam. Pablo communes with a relic between himself and J.A. Adande — the Hall-of-Fame sportswriter and long-suffering fax-sender — for a jam session on innovation and increasingly epic fails that plunges PTFO into the literal depths of modern communication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out.
I am Pablo Torre. And today we're going to find out what this sound is. It came in a two-word statement, which is now just begging to have a Nike campaign built around it. Quote, unquote, I'm back.
Right after this ad. You're listening to DraftKings Network.
Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.
Wie kann man nur so... Ausgeruht sein? Ganz einfach. Trainiere deinen Schlaf und werde auch du zum Morgenmenschen. Mit der Galaxy Watch 7 oder dem Galaxy Ring und der Samsung Health App.
This studio is a time machine today. We are traveling back in time. Do you remember the relic on our desk here?
I do. I still technically own a fax machine. Now, is this a plain paper fax or is it the thermal paper fax? This is a plain paper fax.
This is, she is, well, I guess he is, the brother and telefax 1570 MC. I believe it's a mid-90s vintage fax. Das klingelt. Das klingelt. Das klingelt.
Das klingelt. Das klingelt. Das klingelt. Das klingelt. That's so satisfying. It is. First of all, just the tactile nature of it, touching it.
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