Pablo Torre

I think that the sensation of New York City when this is happening is unparalleled.

In culture and entertainment, it's just unparalleled.

But the perspective of being at the center of it and feeling like you are riding this high.

Yeah.

At the time, you felt what?

That's why I ask.

No.

But also because, and this is where it sort of like speaks to your experience, also because there's an understanding that all of this is fragile.

That this is fleeting.

Like someone out there is going to be asking themselves, is this for real?

Yeah, yeah.

Is this guy someone I can trust or is this going to evaporate?

And we're going to all think that, man, what a weird dream we had.

You know, I need to remind people that you used to be a terrible quote.

thank you I appreciate that I love the honesty and you're so right I remember like covering you at Harvard was one thing and I was like okay he's a college senior whatever like I'll give grace but when you were going through this thing you know it was it was it was palpably uncomfortable I probably started to realize that maybe five days into it every site I'm going to it's like oh Lynn this Lynn that and it was just

Look, I was pretty annoying myself because I was the guy who was just like relentlessly badgering you.

what color was your brother's couch that you were sleeping on what neighborhood was it will you write this book with me and it's just like okay we were all we were all we were all very young back then but but the thing of what you were like i mean in those interviews i could hear you thinking which was the opposite from you on the floor yes and i want to explain to people

Like you growing up, right, from Palo Alto, you've told me stories about growing up and, of course, Asian American parents.

I got to know your parents when I was interviewing them when you were in college.

And the level of both trust and belief that they had that like, yo, our son might be a basketball player.