The Rage in the Cage
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What is the premise of the episode and who is the guest?
Hello, search engine listeners. Before we start the show, a quick reminder. This Friday, October 17th, which is today, if you're listening to this the morning it comes out, at noon Eastern, we're doing a live event where I take your stumpers. Those are unanswerable questions, and I will intellectually humiliate myself trying to answer them. I'll be joined by a friend of the show, Kelefasane, who will also go down fighting. If you're an incognito mode subscriber who subscribed through searchengine.show, there will be a link to this live event in your inbox. And if you miss it, we'll have a live recording of this for our incognito mode listeners up next week. If you're hearing this in the morning, there's still time to send me questions.
Please do. PJ vote eighty five at gmail dot com. Okay, some quick ads and then this week's story.
Before we get into the story or the question, can you just introduce yourself?
Yeah. My name is Pablo Torre. I am a journalist and the host of a show that is a video. Do we call 'em video podcasts?
I at this point I don't know if it's like if podcasts are audio podcasts or video like I don't know what we're doing exactly.
I think that's a fair summation. Uh I also don't really know what I'm doing exactly. But I do it a lot.
You do it a lot. You do it a lot. You answer questions and sometimes do investigations, but the world that you like to cover is sports. And for me, it's interesting because like you and I know each other a little bit. You launched your show, Pubatoria Finds Out, around the same time as Search Engine. I feel like we have similar sensibilities, but it's just your sensibility is being applied to a world that I know very little about.
Yeah, I see sports as a liberal arts education. A sentiment that makes me ostracized in the world of sports. What
do you mean when you say you see sports as a liberal arts education?
It's a way to get to everything. I've been a sports journalist for my entire professional life, and I've never lacked for a reason to connect it to politics, culture, business, religion, race. I am a recovering sociologist. That's what I studied in college. And sports is this giant tent in American life in which you'll sit next to somebody who does not vote. The same way as you or think the same way as you, but you are engaged in the same blood feud against another tribe as them. And so in that, you get to this position, I think, where we are right now, where sports ends up being useful to study as a way of understanding, I don't know, what the fuck America is anymore.
If Pablo's thesis is right and we can learn about America through sports, then the story he was here to tell me had some strange lessons about our country embedded within it. It was a story of a sports scandal, which had drawn me in at first just because it seemed so deeply silly. A novel form of misbehavior was threatening to dishonor the core identity of a brutal American sport. Okay, so the story in question, we were on the phone, you told me about a scandal, a scandal with video, which we are going to watch. First, I just want you to explain to our audience, which I think is less sports-first than yours, like what happened.
So there's a lot of uh, you know, mixed martial arts content that happens on the internet, including this stream of a fight that was taking place in April of twenty twenty four between a gentleman by the name of Mason Lewis against a fighter named Tim Fargo. This was a title fight in a lower division. It was, in fact, a New York State bantamweight fight. Bantam means they're not very heavy. Yeah, one thirty five. Okay. One thirty five. And this thing happens that kind of takes over the world of mixed martial arts in a way that I don't think mixed martial arts was prepared for. Because Mason Lewis, if you've ever seen, I'm trying to translate all of this for you. If you've ever seen that device Suzanne Summers sold called the Thime Master.
Yeah,
Mason Lewis basically had his head. Between Tim Fargo's thighs, like he was being thigh mastered.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the premise of the episode and who is the guest?
0:00–5:17
2
How does Pablo Torre explain the MMA scandal involving a foot‑tickle?
5:17–14:59
3
What happened in the Rage in the Cage 24 fight and why did it cause controversy?
14:59–25:08
4
What does the fight clip reveal about the tickling technique used?
25:08–43:43
5
How did mixed martial arts evolve into mainstream American culture?
43:43–51:37