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Pablo Torre Finds Out

Maury Povich and Connie Chung Love Each Other to Death

04 Dec 2025

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Chapter 1: What are the dynamics of Maury Povich and Connie Chung's relationship?

0.74 - 6.373 Pablo Torre

Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.

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7.336 - 13.149 Maury Povich

Why are you being so nice? You haven't been nice all week. Well, neither have you.

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13.189 - 39.373 Pablo Torre

Right after this ad. Is it possible that Connie gets here late but then leaves later? Absolutely. So I do want to clarify for the audience what's happening here is that we're going to get one period of just you Maury Povich talking shit about Connie Chung.

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39.774 - 40.415 Maury Povich

No problem.

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41.177 - 46.469 Pablo Torre

And then at some point, you're going to get out of here. Right. Because I have my podcast to do.

46.649 - 64.281 Maury Povich

I know. On par with Maury Povich. Because you're a media magnate. I mean, I'm going to do the same thing you do when you substitute on PTI, you know? I got the sign right here. On par with Maury Poach on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, all of your social media platforms.

64.301 - 72.339 Pablo Torre

How dare you? How dare you throw shade at my unrepentant promotion of this show on every possible platform? Wow.

72.82 - 85.827 Maury Povich

In fact, I was shocked the other day. When Will Bond wasn't there, and so you're always Tony's partner. That's right. And then you didn't show up.

85.908 - 86.57 Pablo Torre

I was not there.

Chapter 2: How do Maury and Connie balance their careers and personal lives?

114.967 - 135.536 Pablo Torre

But this thing, by the way, this thing, you have to help me explain to the audience how long I've been trying to put this summit together. Starting in the spring, maybe. Last year. Yeah. I mean, literally the first time you came on the show, I was like, what if we get... Wait a second. We've never appeared together on your show? No, no, no. You, me, and your better half. Yeah.

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136.057 - 138.981 Pablo Torre

The three of us have not done this. No. And you came on the show.

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139.161 - 165.099 Maury Povich

Connie's been on your show. I've been on your show. It's the fact that you would want us together. Very brave. Wow. I've been warned against it. It's not. I mean, she's going to show up here and I will be clueless as to what's going to come out of her mouth. And quite frankly, I mean, I'll tell you, I'll even tell her when she, we are in the we don't like each other stage right now.

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165.359 - 188.871 Maury Povich

So far that checks out based on? Something's going on. I don't know. Maybe it's in the water. But, you know, we've been married for over 40 years. We love each other to death. But quite frankly, there are times we do not like each other. And I think this is one of those times. This podcast is one of those times. And when she comes on, you'll understand it.

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188.971 - 194.98 Maury Povich

She pays me much, just grief, a lot of grief.

195 - 200.167 Pablo Torre

I feel like that general observation is most substantiated by the fact that this chair is empty right now.

200.187 - 227.094 Maury Povich

I know. I mean, I'm looking at the empty chair, and quite frankly, it looks good. I'll tell her when she comes in that we've been discussing how we don't like each other these days.

227.274 - 231.284 Pablo Torre

And I'm going to immediately turn on you and take her side as you're aware of the dynamic that's going to happen here.

231.545 - 232.487 Maury Povich

I mean, yeah.

Chapter 3: What insights do they share about the challenges of being in the media industry?

283.005 - 285.449 Unknown

Because y'all beat the draws off us. Oh, my God.

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285.469 - 289.054 Maury Povich

Oh, my Lord. Look at that. Congratulations, Pablo.

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289.154 - 290.476 Unknown

They got to sign the draw.

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292.078 - 297.106 Pablo Torre

I would say that the two of us together made history. Yes, we did. We made podcast history. Yeah.

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297.767 - 299.048 Maury Povich

But he was a gracious loser.

299.149 - 305.549 Pablo Torre

A gracious loser. And I would beat him again. I would happily go back and defend our title.

305.809 - 309.675 Maury Povich

You know, I knew about Nick a little bit. He's some entrepreneur.

310.096 - 314.563 Pablo Torre

You're talking about him just in terms of like his sperm or you're talking about in terms of his actual business?

314.583 - 317.388 Maury Povich

That too, but I mean, all of his business ventures.

Chapter 4: How does Maury feel about his legacy in television?

423.424 - 425.029 Unknown

Let's hear it!

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425.049 - 453.907 Maury Povich

When it comes to four-month-old Donye, Andrew, you are not the father. Guess what? Shaquille O'Neal and his buddies watch my show all the time, bet lots of money with each other to find out whether they were the father or not. He was a great lover of the show, and he and his buddies would all watch and bet.

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453.927 - 460.637 Pablo Torre

Maury, you could have been leaking inside information to one of Shaq's entourage members and just totally cleaned him out.

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461.979 - 469.726 Maury Povich

You know, it's very interesting about the show. I've talked to many, many... Professional athletes, even football players.

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469.866 - 472.188 Pablo Torre

Hold on. Your wife's calling you. Oh, boy.

474.131 - 481.178 Maury Povich

Okay, I'm starting the show without you. You're three minutes away.

482.54 - 487.665 Connie Chung

Send somebody to the lobby.

487.966 - 488.787 Maury Povich

Okay, we'll do that.

489.708 - 491.89 Unknown

Right.

Chapter 5: What humorous anecdotes do they share about their time in the spotlight?

594.365 - 601.593 Maury Povich

I said, this is what I've been told. And Warren said, absolutely. We wouldn't go out there until we found out who the father was.

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602.754 - 614.407 Pablo Torre

So you're responsible. You yourself, your show has been responsible for the underperformance of various athletes throughout time. You are a one-man gambling scandal. Yeah, right.

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615.108 - 628.103 Maury Povich

Oh, boy. Nice to see you. Good to see you. Hi, Pablo. Wow. Hello. I'm excited I got a kiss. Hi, Pablo. How are you? Thank you for being here.

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628.483 - 629.485 Connie Chung

It's cold outside.

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629.565 - 631.167 Maury Povich

I know, honey. I don't need it right now.

631.387 - 633.33 Connie Chung

I know. I know.

633.35 - 639.498 Maury Povich

Okay. Why are you being so nice? You haven't been nice all week. Well, neither have you.

642.523 - 646.328 Pablo Torre

Hi, Pablo. I'm here to take your side in all arguments.

646.348 - 646.448

Okay.

Chapter 6: How do they view the current state of journalism?

694.015 - 695.997 Connie Chung

This mark here. Oh, sorry.

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696.097 - 697.679 Pablo Torre

That's okay.

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698.139 - 699.801 Maury Povich

There's always a mark, Connie. Come on.

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700.021 - 700.482 Connie Chung

Yeah.

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701.491 - 715.172 Pablo Torre

Let us explain to you how television works, the two of you. It's a medium in which people need to cover edits when one of you curses horrifically. No, we'll leave it all in. We're going to leave it all in.

715.192 - 716.674 Maury Povich

Is the not like period over?

717.195 - 717.656 Unknown

Oh, yeah.

717.996 - 719.939 Maury Povich

Yeah. Not on this end.

720.44 - 725.107 Unknown

Oh, geez. Oh, thank you.

Chapter 7: What are their thoughts on the impact of technology on media?

826.079 - 829.624 Connie Chung

And then I said, I see a little bit of ethnicity there.

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829.925 - 832.929 Pablo Torre

I did a genetic test. Oh, you did?

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833.269 - 839.038 Maury Povich

Yeah. And what happened? What'd you find out? I'm like 11% Chinese. Now she's ready to move in.

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840.3 - 843.645 Connie Chung

I mean, 11% better. It's even better.

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843.685 - 846.629 Pablo Torre

So there's some little, there's like trace amounts of Spanish.

846.649 - 852.798 Maury Povich

But, you know, but the Philippines suffered the way China suffered at the hands of the Japanese. So, you know.

853.218 - 859.374 Pablo Torre

Accurate. Very, very true. I didn't bring you guys here to talk about geopolitical history, though.

859.634 - 869.225 Connie Chung

But did you know that Maury is such a history buff and political expert? Seriously. Stop it. He's very, very into all things political and historical.

869.245 - 892.376 Maury Povich

I'll tell you what I'm reading now. I'm reading this book by Andrew Ross Sorkin called 1929. Yeah. And I'm reading it because is it going to happen again? And, you know, is this bubble, whatever, whatever, everybody, everybody. You know, Bernard Baruch used to say, when the elevator operator is telling you what stock to buy, watch out.

Chapter 8: What future plans do Maury and Connie have for their careers?

992.774 - 999.54 Connie Chung

And you remember why Maury decided that he just couldn't continue in sports.

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999.706 - 1028.363 Maury Povich

I started out in TV as the 10 o'clock news sportscaster in Washington on Channel 5, where my hometown. And I used to cover the then Washington Redskins, and George Allen was the coach. He was kind of a... He was kind of a Belichick before Belichick kind of a guy. Mm-hmm. You know, never liked reporters and everything. Got yoga very late in life. Right. So...

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1028.596 - 1050.792 Maury Povich

One day I'm in the locker room and I see, and this is the 70s, okay? And so in the 70s, there are a lot of stories about drugs that players were using, these illicit drugs in order to pump up and other stuff, have cocaine outside the game and all that. And so there's this bottle of pills and it could have been salt pills. I mean, I didn't know. I mean, who knows?

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1051.353 - 1076.248 Maury Povich

So I said, coach, can you tell me what's in that bottle? And he says, Mari, this is 1973. He says, Mari, are you with us or against us? And I said to myself, I got to get out of sports. I just got to. How did my father do it for 75 years? I got to get out of sports. If you have to have a loyalty test, I'm in big trouble. And that's when I went to news.

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1076.869 - 1081.637 Pablo Torre

I dare say that a lot of people have decided to be with sports

1081.617 - 1103.929 Maury Povich

them yes yes i asked jeff perlman okay who i had on my show another great sports writer and stuff sports illustrated yes and writes great books yes so i said to jeff i said does this still happen he said absolutely oh yeah i would say more than ever and by the way you see that of course in in news actually

1104.348 - 1108.955 Pablo Torre

By the way, what's it like to watch CBS right now?

1108.975 - 1144.242 Connie Chung

We don't. I mean, I can't. The paradigm has completely changed in news, and we have so much opinion that the truth doesn't hold value anymore. And what we end up doing is trying to, we as consumers, trying to find the truth. We can't find good old-fashioned facts. And it distresses me so terribly. CBS is a whole different organization that I had worked for.

1145.344 - 1184.346 Connie Chung

CBS has now been taken over thanks to greedy owners, Sherry Redstone, partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison's son. And their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles. And then they've hired this, I don't know what to call Barry Weiss. I don't either. You know, I just don't know. Yeah, but she's... You know, we'll see.

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