Share & Anti-Pulitzer & Tell with Michael Cruz Kayne and Sam Reich
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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.
Soccer doesn't make anyone wet.
Right after this ad.
The Pulitzer's going to get taken away. Oh, God. They're going to listen to this audio quality.
I'm realizing what a nightmare it is to follow up winning a Pulitzer Prize with this episode. Yeah.
You've made a huge mistake. You've made a huge mistake.
It's tough. Yeah. It's real tough. Sam Reich, thank you for being here. I have been looking forward to meeting you, only to cast you aside for a second to talk about myself.
Good. Wonderful. Thank God. I loathe being the center of attention.
So we're going to get back to doing Share & Tell with Michael Cruz-Cain and our new friend Sam Reich, the CEO of Dropout, which is this truly amazing comedy company that I want you guys to know about. That'll be all happening just a second here. But something I feel obligated to formally tell you, you being the listeners and viewers who stick with us here three times a week, is that on Sunday at 12.04 p.m. Eastern, I got a call from our licensing partners at The Athletic and The New York Times Company, and they told me something unforgettable.
We're actually awarding you the first ever anti-Pulitzer.
What does Mark Cuban think about the Pulitzer Prize win?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
That felt more logical than what actually happened, which is that the staff of Pablo Torre finds out, it turns out, had won the Pulitzer Prize. And look, if you're wondering if this is the most surreal thing that has ever happened in my life, personally,
The answer is yes. Congratulations. I mean, what a startling achievement. Have you, like, you had to do this at some point, I'm guessing. You had to go through your own stuff and go, what here do I feel like might be worthy of a Pulitzer?
Also, I would say I've been on, if I had to guess, 7,000 episodes of this program, and not one of them is remotely close to Pulitzer-worthy.
You do not know that you weren't submitted.
Do you, Michael? I guess I don't know for a fact. Maybe the 12th episode investigating Bill Belichick's girlfriend could have been the one, but I'm not sure.
And so smash cut to Monday afternoon when I find myself as an independent journalist here at Meadowlark Media whose show joined the Athletic Podcast Network last September. atop this iconic red staircase in the middle of the New York Times building. And if you're a true journalism nerd like me, you may have seen this scene before in photos or movies. It's this annual gathering of all of these reporters and editors and dignitaries arrayed across multiple floors of this enormous open floor plan newsroom, the largest newsroom in America, hear speeches from the winners of this genuinely overwhelming award. There was the unbelievable investigation that the Times reported into the Trump administration's self-enrichment.
There was their astonishing news photography in Gaza, these trenchant columns about authoritarianism. And also, a multi-part series about circumventing the NBA salary cap, involving a company that called Aspiration.
It is a surreal honor to address the Galactic Senate. I'm part of the algorithm planet in your network. And I'm thrilled to be invited to celebrate a day full of recognition that is vital. I knew you guys were good. But today is really one of those days where I feel a little lucid again. Part of this is, frankly, because I'm from New York City, born and raised here, first-generation American, parents from the Philippines. I grew up reading and subscribing to the Times. And I've seen documentaries in which you guys do this thing. And it's even better when you get to do this thing as a part of it. It's a great job.
But just one quick bit of context here, apparently, is that it is very rare, I have been told, for sports journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize. And our category, audio reporting, which is, of course, not a sports category, it had never before been won by a talk show as a genre, either. Certainly not one that has also taste-tested the greatest strains of athlete-branded weed.
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