Share & Call the President & Tell with Brace Belden and Liz Franczak
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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.
You guys have some of the nastiest strip clubs that have ever existed.
Right after this.
Do you have Donald Trump's number?
Yeah. Yeah, I got his number.
There was a news cycle where it was like, some people have Donald Trump's number. And then I realized Brace is one of those people.
Yeah, I called him. He picked up. I didn't record it for the show. And I really, I actually let a friend do it because it was his birthday. And he picked up. It was like 11 o'clock at night. We actually weren't that far from here. And my friend sort of panicked. He was like, hello. And it was Trump.
How did Brace get Donald Trump’s personal phone number and what happened when he called?
And he's like, and it was kind of like, It was a little bit sexy the way he answered. Like, he answered and there was like a beat and then he was like, hello? And he was like, who is this? After another beat. And my friend, in a panic, did... She said he was Netanyahu and he was on ketamine in Bushwick and he needed a ride home. I would have played it a little bit differently. No, you got to play it as the British reporter.
Play it straight. And then see if you can get him to answer some questions.
Yeah, that is true.
Can we call... The president?
Yeah, we can try calling him. Let's see if he picks up.
Wait, can we just strategize really quickly? So if he picks up, we're going to go... I think you should take it. Oh, no. That's a lot of pressure.
What the f***? You're a real reporter. Because I feel like you can do, like, you can do, like, serious voice really well, whereas, like, listen to his voice.
You can't really... I sound... This is the problem. Point proven. No, because I try to... I frequently try to fib to people in unfamiliar environments, and I have to talk to people. I do try to present myself a little more professionally, and that doesn't work because I feel like I look unprofessional, like, genetically. And my voice is quite unprofessional, and my cadence, I feel like, is. And so... I feel like Trump would note that too quickly.
Plus, and I sound like a Muppet, so it's just not going to— No one's going to take us seriously.
We could ask him to comment on— So, I'm just going to interrupt both of my honored guests today, Grace Belden and Liz Franczak, because they both deserve to be taken quite seriously. especially since we are welcoming them both back on a very special day for their podcast, which they co-host and which I love, called Truanon.
It actually is our exact, to this day, seven-year anniversary. That's why I said that.
It is.
Yeah, seven-year itch starting now.
I'm thinking of maybe starting a sports podcast. No, we're a sports show.
We deal with sports and topics. But it's investigative sports. It's a little different. We do things a little different.
Yeah. The only difference, as we like to say, is that we're white. And so we do it a little bit differently. Okay.
Race and Liz do not call themselves journalists, as they alluded to before as we figure out today what to ask the president. What they are instead are the people I count on to both research and explain America's insanely online era of foreign and domestic policy. an era shaped fundamentally by strange festivals, as you'll see, as well as this endlessly revolving door of arcane figures who seem too ridiculous to go mainstream, but then inevitably do. You are curious, it turns out, about things that I am also curious about and things that people are going to have to realize might directly affect them. And Jeffrey Epstein was, of course, the thing we first talked about when you were here the last time.
The email release was like, it was such a big story for like a month. And then it got superseded by so many other insane things that happened that it feels like it happened like three or four years ago. You know what I mean? There's been like four versions of the Iran war since then.
Which brings us to last Friday night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, because as LeBron James was busy becoming a Philadelphia 76er, the man in charge of all of these wars recalled how his aides at one point simply stopped telling him when reporters were calling, possibly in an effort to just get him to stop talking to them.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:51
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How did Brace get Donald Trump’s personal phone number and what happened when he called?
0:51–4:50
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What should we ask the president if he picks up — how do hosts plan their strategy?
4:50–27:07
4
What went wrong at the America 250 fair — why did guests call it disappointing?
27:07–31:22
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Which state pavilions at America 250 were notable and why did many booths underdeliver?
31:22–39:23
Speakers
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