Pablo Torre

It's just hard not to just put it in when available.

It's fair.

The plan is U.S.

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is going to play golf with Phil Mickelson.

And this, of course, raises the follow-up journalistic question, which is what did Howard Lutnick have to say about that?

Hearing it all spelled out like this in these calls, in that quote, it does kind of feel a bit insulting to the Trump administration that the way everyone's trying to charm them is very predictable and very, like, almost infantilizing to the people they're trying to, like, charm here.

By the way, whatever happened to the group chat?

What happened to the room full of bros that you got to know in the course of your investigations?

Which is to say that Phil Mickelson has more time to play golf on the beautiful coast of Ocean America.

Or, you know, just keep writing.

Keep writing, Phil.

I'm not sure I would deploy it on the platform known as X. But I do think he should deploy it in a genre that might be described as XXX.

Pablo Torre Finds Out is produced by Walter Averoma, Maxwell Carney, Ryan Cortez, Juan Galindo, Patrick Kim, Neely Lohman, Rob McRae, Matt Sullivan, Claire Taylor, and Chris Tuminello.

Our studio engineering by RG Systems, sound design by Andrew Bersik and NGW Post, theme song, as always, by John Bravo, and we will talk to you next time.

I remember when Juju Gachi told me to lock in the greatest Thursday Thunder ever.

It was 2,125.

I was but 12 years old.

Juju, a lot happening in the NBA over the last 24 hours, but you have breaking news for us.

Zazz, does he make them better or worse?

Juju, I saw last night that Russell Westbrook called himself the best rebounding guard of all time.