Pablo Torre Finds Out - "Be Like Satoshi": We Unmask Scottie Pippen's A.I. Crypto Slop

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

Why is the Bulls legend hawking "the Mona Lisa of sports" as a talking Web3 meme-coin NFT? And who are the secret weapons turning the 60-year-old Hall-of-Famer into a crypto bro, with a last-ditch effort to cash in on The Last Dance? Pablo breaks out the folders for Jordan family friend Wyatt Cenac and former Pippen colleague Amin Elhassan, featuring revelations on MJ's son, Benihana, Lil Hippo... and so on.• Previously on PTFO: The Last Dance of Larsa Pippen and Marcus Jordan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. This underscores the need for ethical innovation. On a lighter note, let's shift to something unifying. Like elite sports debates, every fan knows. Right after this ad. I will tell Wyatt's in Acmean, the same thing I tell David Samson and you, do not open that fucking fool for a while. I'm not going to open it at all. Even when given the opportunity to open it, I'm not going to open it. Because I just want to appreciate it for what it is. It's like when you make your first dollar the first time you work a job, I'm framing.

I'm framing this. This is going to be an episode that relates to basketball. This is going to be an episode that relates to money and how it is transacted. I need to actually formally begin the episode by asking if you guys are familiar with the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto. Sure, but Wyatt looks like he doesn't know so tell him. Oh, I look confused. I know Satoshi. I'm all about Bitcoin, baby. I have a shirt that says all about Bitcoin, baby. I didn't have you as a crypto bro. I don't consider myself a crypto bro. I was an early adopter. And then I got out before the bros came in. Before they gentrified. Yeah, yeah. Once the manisphere shows up any place, I'm like, ooh, it's time to go.

Satoshi Nakamoto, Amin, of course, is the alias that has been massed. asking the true identity of whoever spawned Bitcoin in 2009. And last month, The New York Times, investigative reporter, John Kerry Rue reported that the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, this mystery that everyone's been trying to solve, is actually... Scottie Pippin. Well, they reported that it's a computer scientist named Adam Back.

Weeks after that, an investigative documentary called Finding Satoshi came out, and it reported that Satoshi is actually two cryptographers named Hal Finney and Lansassaman. So not even Japanese. Yeah, unfortunately, the Asian culture is their costume. Yeah. It's like Hagen-Daz is not actually Norwegian, right? It's not?

It's from upstate New York. Yeah, it's from upstate New York. Hagen-Daz doesn't mean anything. It's just a made-up sound Scandinavian. Because they know about ice cream, apparently. The rocky road of journalism around Satoshi Nakamoto has brought me, though, in this incredibly competitive journalistic challenge, to a voice I would like to bring our attention to, and that voice belongs to someone that I think you guys will recall.

So, Scotty mentioned something to me yesterday that I thought was pretty interesting. You mentioned you met Satoshi in Seattle in 1993. He also came to you in a dream. You have a nice relationship with Satoshi. I feel like I do. I feel like I have a story to tell. Definitely have an opportunity to meet him back in 1993. That was Scotty Pippin on stage at a crypto conference in 2024.

And if you could just please, I mean, describe the visuals for those who are just listening. Scottie is sitting there dressed in all black, a black button up shirt, black jeans, and a black hat that I believe says the word ball on it. Yes. The guy in the middle, by the way, is billionaire and Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor, who is an incredibly prominent figure in the world of crypto. And you'll notice when Scotty Pippen says, oh, yeah, I know, I met Satoshi in Seattle. in the 90s, Michael Saylor turns to him and pretty resentfully is just like, who the fuck? So I need you to know up top here that this is not going to be an episode about unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious founder of Bitcoin and the creator of a multi-trillion dollar cryptocurrency industry.

This episode is actually going to be about unmasking the guy who has now claimed repeatedly to have met Satoshi. back in the 1990s. Scotty Pippen. All-time NBA great, arguably the best sidekick in sports history, and the guy who also happened to have done a bunch of TV with one of our guests today back in the 2010s on ESPN.

Unless you already walked into this year thinking to yourself, I can't wait to get rid of this dude. I don't know why anyone would start talking about this. I think the whole situation is, if you look at the games that they played already, they probably should be better than 500 right now. But to be clear, Amin Al-Hasson is not the only BTFO guest today who has a special connection to the 90s Bulls.

So my family, my mother's family, is from Wilmington, North Carolina. They grew up with Michael Jordan's family. They were very, very close, so much so that one of my uncles, is married to one of Michael's aunts. My uncle Harley married his Aunt Reba. And I never knew Michael. I had cousins who grew up with him. His father was at my cousin's wedding.

And so that's the Michael part of it. The Scotty part of it, I did a ceramics class where we had to make masks. and they were supposed to be abstract masks, but when I started working on the mask that I made, it started to look like Scotty Pippin to me. So I then just made as lifelike as possible a mask of Scotty Pippen at whatever, 16, 17 years old.

And this concept, this notion of a distorted replication, an avatar of Scotty Pippen, gets right to the heart of our actual mystery. here, as we examine a world where it has never been easier to hide who you really are. Because what Wyatson Act does not know as a person who logged off of Elon Musk's Twitter several years ago is that while his relative, Michael Jordan, has stayed as relevant as ever while never joining social media, this thanks in part to the incredible Last Dance docuseries and interminable sports television debates, Scotty Pippen, has become something startling.

a crypto bro himself. For instance, I mean, Scotty Pippen tweeted this in September of 2024. Satajy Nakamoto visited me in a dream last night and predicted that Bitcoin would be at $84,650 on November 5th, 2024. Not financial advice. Bitcoin, Wyatt, proceeded to break $99,000 in November. And this built the legend of Scottie Pippen,

whose tweet was viewed 9.8 million times on Elon's platform, which then led to this tweet that got 27.5 million views. The image is of Elon Musk in Luke Longley's jersey, number 13 for the Bulls. Yeah. And the caption is, how many championships would we have won with at Elon Musk thinking emoji? My favorite part is AI in its infinite wisdom said,

let me put Elon Musk in a Bulls jersey, and let me make sure someone has passed away. Let's put a black pass there, in memoriam of whoever. Yeah. Well, speaking of AI slop and contemplating mortality, it is also important to note that Scotty Pippen is not merely posting Elon Musk stuff.

Scotty Pippen is also posting videos of Grandma's dunking. Lap the backboard, Grandma. Come on. It's so stupid. Also, that, I feel like that totally just pisses on the legacy of Larry Johnson. Grandma Ma. That, like, why aren't we appreciating grandma-ma in this moment? Instead, we're making AI grandmas to do the work that Larry Johnson already pioneered.

It's a really good point. I mean, all of this, by the way, this is just a sampling of what Scottie Pippen's social media account is like now. And it is so much like this that I got a DM from a guy named

Josh Cashman. This is at Cable Thanos on Twitter. He himself actually makes legitimately incredible Seattle Seahawks fan videos himself using human, you know, ingenuity. Cable, Thanos, we're calling you out. I know you make all these cool videos.

and all that. Let's see if you can beat me in Smash Bros. And what at Cable Thanos besieged of me, I mean, was this. Please do a video on Pippin's weird social team. And then you responded, great idea, T.B.H.

And so here we are. We're here to examine the Satoshi-like question of who the fuck is behind at Scotty Pip. Although I should also point out, Wyatt, that at Scotty Pippin notably did reply to somebody on Twitter who had previously alleged that at Scotty Pippin, quote, doesn't even manage his own account. To which Scotty Pippin himself then had to reply with a video of his own. Yo, what's up, this Scotty? Just want to let you know it's me using my account. I feel like that could have been AI.

I don't even believe. that's a real video. It's Scotty Pippin in what appears to be the backyard of like a just a New England style home that has white siding on it. It's not where you think Scottie Pippen would be. It feels like maybe he's at a relative's house or yeah, like why is he in Rhode Island? There is a ladder? Yeah. If you told me this is Scottie Pippen's house, I would say there must be another Scotty Pippin, but he's got on a hoodie, it's got a gold frame. On the hoodie, there's an image, and it's a gold frame, and then the word ball. And I must admit here that Scotty Piffin's own testimony here at age 60, I found it unpersuasive when it comes to the question of who's behind

Scottie Pippen's social media accounts. Yeah. And so, yeah, it led me on my own quest to unmask the true identity of this other crypto mystery. Is it Satoshi? Did we just figure out the end of the episode before we went through it? Are we, I didn't even need to do, wow, okay, all right. I do need to back up here and acknowledge something, which is that for those who have not been paying attention to Scotty Pippen, it's been kind of a rough decade, I mean, for Scottie Pippen. In fact, this episode is not this show's first foray into Pippin-related journalism.

One of the first shows we ever did here at Pablo Tore finds out, this was October of 2023, was a joint interview with both Larsa Pippen, Scotty's ex-wife, now age 51, and her then boyfriend, Marcus Jordan. Cousin Marcus. As wide can tell you from family reunions, is 35 and very out here. And the premise of that episode was even beyond the age gap stuff. It was to me Shakespeare, right? And Scotty Pippin's ex-wife was talking about marrying the son of Scottie Pippen's former running mate,

who is this cruel, greatest of all-time character whose shadow he continues to occupy. As all of this was happening, I was just thinking about Scotty and what it must feel like to be him. It could have been fun, and it's not like that was the first foray for him into This is Uncomfortable territory. Larsa's ex before Marcus Jordan was popular recording artist's future And you know People were running with those memes And future during that time

Was on a generational music run You couldn't go anywhere Without the music playing I remember one time Because I used to do the jump with Scotty Pippen And one time we're sitting on set Waiting for people to show up I don't think Rachel had gotten there yet

Scottie hadn't gotten there yet But I was there early and we like to play music and then Future came on right as Scottie was walking into the studio and I was like, who's got the Bluetooth speaker, man? Skip, skip. Skip. Airplane mode. It was just so awkward for, you know, your former spouse to be involved

with one of the most popular music artists who, by the way, makes insinuations in his music about you to the son of my former teammate who I have like a weird, kind of tension and rivalry with to begin with. It wasn't a fun 2016 at 2026 for Scotty Pippet. And then I come along asking questions on a podcast of both of them. Do you want your dad to give a toast at your wedding? How does this work?

Yeah, you know, look, I was the best man at his wedding. And so, and the best man of my brother's wedding. And so obviously, we'll keep that tradition going is my thoughts on it. I want in. I want video cameras there. Now that, you know, I've been on the housewives of Miami, you know, the producers are inquiring around, you know, when's the wedding? Are we going to film it on TV? Yada, yada, yada. Yeah. No, I'm sure Scotty Pippin at some point is like, when are you going to do an

episode about Reggie Theus? Who, for those who don't know, was the person who dated Juanita Jordan, Aunt Juanita, before she and cousin Mike got married. And according to the Sam Smith book, The Jordan Rules, every time Michael Jordan had to play Reggie Theus and the New Jersey Nets, he really took it upon himself to have the game of his life and just really stick it to Reggie Theus. Unfortunately, I love hang time. Right, yes, yeah. It's a great show.

Which, yeah, if you're Reggie Theus on the set of hang time, how are you feeling? Like, is this a moment of kinship between Scotty Pippen and Reggie Theas? If they see each other in an airport, do they just go to the airport bar and they're like, Yeah, I know what it's like. I know what it's like to be haunted by the past. The only consolation, I suppose, that Scotty could have taken from our coverage of Larsa and Marcus, Larkis, as it were. Cousin Marcus.

It's that they didn't seem to like the experience either, as the New York Post, Wyatt commemorated. Larsa Pippin, Marcus Jordan, trash, miserable. Pablo Torre over podcast interview. Have no idea he'll win a Pulitzer. I mean, they weren't prescient. He is miserable. It's a prison I have decided to voluntarily lock myself inside of the Larkas story. Yeah, me and Charlotte Wilder and Ryan Cortez,

we listen to all dozen of the episodes of their old podcast. Yeah, they're not doing it anymore. Well, they are no longer together, is the spoiler alert here. Sure. Marcus. Is the podcast still on them? Yeah. The empire has fallen.

They broke up in 2024. The podcast was taken over by other people. What? I don't know. It's very, it's disappointing, as Larsa personally articulated on the real Housewives of Miami last June. We went from really being in love getting along

to me seeing a side of him that didn't align with who I am as a person. When we would go out, he would like to be the very last person in the club. Like, I mean, there's no one there but the janitors. you know, plays to the whistle, I suppose. Yeah. First in the gym, first out.

Like, that's, he learned from the best. It is worth pointing out, I mean, that Larsa Pippen had married Scottie Pippen back in 97. They had four kids together. One of them, Scotty Pippin Jr. Speaking of the offspring of these all-time characters, he's on the Grizzlies. He's a decent backup guard. He's shown a strong ability to drive to finish in traffic. whereas Marcus Jordan, on the other hand,

not quite as good at either of those things. Come on. Bro, I'm Marcus Jordan. I'm Michael Jordan's son. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just trying to get home. And I made a wrong turn. Okay?

And clearly, we would just like to get our car off of the train tracks. It's true. Which we were not trying to be on. I mean, I'm just saying if there's six of us and we throw this thing in reverse. I've already got concerns for your level impairment anyways, okay? So that's why. Because I can't smoke alcohol coming from you in your own train tracks. Okay.

So, come on, man. Just listen to me. That's why I don't want you back behind the wheel anyways, okay? I'm fine behind the wheel. I just would like to get my car out of this. We'll deal with that after this, okay? We'll deal with that after this. just want to say to any black person who's listening, it seems like if the cops ever pull you over,

if you say I'm Michael Jordan's son, the level of treatment, really, they get a hell of a lot more patient than they normally would. Just maybe as a going forward, if you get pulled over by the cops, just say, I'm Michael Jordan's son, and then they'll figure it out eventually, but for at least a little while, it seems like you're going to get some good customer service. I love the hesitation from the cops like, you think he's selling the truth? They didn't want to chance it. No. Let's err on the side of caution.

Yeah, if that works, I feel like if I get pulled over, I'm going to be like, hey, by the way, I'm Michael Jordan's cousin through marriage. I can get this off the monorail track now. You got to break it down from you. His aunt Reba married my uncle. Like, you got to go to the whole family tree. Pull it out. Show it to him.

This is Wilmington, North Carolina. This Lamborghini SUV on these train tracks, I believe that all of us, all six of us, if we work together, can remove, which is my favorite part. Marcus Jordan pitching the cops, like, guys, we can just take care of this ourselves. Guys, this is our last dance, all right?

This is our, I'm Marcus Jordan, son of Michael Jordan. You could be like, you could be the Luke Longer. of this. Bill Wennington? Yeah, you're definitely a Bill Wennington. Yeah, who's going to be my Steve Kerr? You in the back, all right, you get on that bumper and push. Marcus Jordan, who said he made a wrong turn onto the train tracks. I should note here for the record, was reported to have sang the entire way to a local Orange County jail that night. Unfortunately, we could not find out what song he was singing, but that is the reporting. In March of this year, TMZ reported that he completed to his credit the terms of his DUI sentence,

which involved, among other things, random drug testing, community service, a written apology, and all the charges were dropped as part of the plea deal. Marcus had pleaded not guilty to possession of ketamine, resisting an officer without violence, and DUI. But through all of this, I do all of this to say that the person I keep thinking about is Scotty Pippin Senior as stuff like that comes out. And I've actually been thinking about Scotty dating back to the pandemic because imagine being him when the last dance came out. Sure, yeah.

I mean, he kind of minimized his contribution. Minimized would be one thing. It also very kind of callously went through his contract negotiation. His decision to sign a long-term deal at the time that eventually proved to be well-up. underpaid and his unhappiness regarding that and how that kind of influenced everything else that was happening on the court. And Michael didn't seem to have a lot of empathy for him. He was like, yeah, you messed up. Scotty's rhetoric over time, I think, has softened, but I still think of what he wrote in his 2021 memoir, which was called unguarded. The Last Dance glorified Michael Jordan

while not giving nearly enough praise to me and my proud teammates. How dare Michael treat us that way after everything we did for him and his precious brand. Seeing again how poorly Michael treated his teammates, I cringed as I did back then. Michael and I aren't close and never have been. That was all from the prologue. Oh, wow. Wow.

That's how it started. I thought that was like a late chapter. No, no, that's all from the first section. Which I think does bring us back to at Cable Thanos. and at Scottie Pippen's attempt to use social media to now do something he didn't feel he could do when the world was feeding into Bulls hysteria in the pandemic, which was...

Bullsteria. Bullsteria. Personally profit off of that team himself. Community. Decentralization. Real world sports object. Feel like Satoshi. Do you guys have any idea what Scottie Pippen is selling here?

First of all, I can now see clearly what I couldn't see clearly on his hat or his hoodie earlier. It's a dollar sign ball is what it says. Is that money ball perhaps? I don't know. But he's holding an NBA basketball in his hands. I'm thinking there's some sort of kind of NFT connection here between something. He's talking about community, whatever, and a real-life object is obviously gay muse ball that he's got in his hands. I think it's a promo for a Tim and Eric adult swim show.

That's either performance art or that's a Tim and Eric adult swim show. Outside of that, I have no idea if you were to give me a thousand guesses. I'm just going to come back with Tim and Eric. Now, does this look more like his house from the inside? No. No. The giant speaker in the background feels. like the house of a divorced 60-year-old

that is kind of like trying to live like he's 20 again. So, okay, this could be his house. But even still, I don't know. In my head, I expect all the 90s bulls to kind of live like Bruce Wayne and not... Well, the last dance, again, the setting of that, it was all like these heroically scenic backdrops, especially for obviously Michael.

And, yeah, this is a bit more mortality, relatively speaking. That looks like if a bunch of frat bros decided to put their apartment on Airbnb. I love the idea that Wyatt has, like, Judd Bueshler having like a bat cave under his house. Yeah, Judd Bouchler does. Yeah, Judd Bouchler, Cliff Levingston, that guy's fucking got his own SR-71 Blackbird jet that he flies around. You don't know where Cliff Levingston is because he's in it. as SR-71 Blackbird flying around all the time. Scott Burrell gets home walking through a waterfall.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. They won six NBA championships. That's like the Golden State Warriors for as great as they are. The San Antonio Spurs for as great as they are. They're going to live in normal houses. You win six NBA championships.

You walk through a waterfall to get into your house. Well, the question of what the fuck is this, I think, is aided by the fact that artificial intelligence can be useful for personal exposition. This was the day the most iconic real-world asset was born. The 1991 NBA finals. Tonight, game five between the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers. Scotty Pippen kept the game-winning ball and never let it go.

For 33 years, he guarded it closely. He was protecting the Mona Lisa of sports. And he waited. for the right moment to pass it back to culture. He's tokenizing the iconic ball. Imagine being there when Nike or Amazon was just an idea. Well, Scotty is now passing the ball to community and building the number one sports brand in Web 3.

Duh. It still feels like a Tim and Eric show. I don't know if Adult Swim is looking for any new programming, but whatever Scotty Pippen is doing right now, I feel like they should take a meeting because if that came on at 12, 15 in the morning, a lot of stone people would be wholly into it and would watch multiple seasons. I'm just impressed by all the archival footage they had. Him at his computer, like when he was 32 years old or whatever.

Yeah, when he had enough money to probably go to Kinkos and just get a poster that's printed out that said dollar sign ball. But no, he couldn't wait. He just went and got some spray paint and spray painted it in his house, which, yeah, again, you're supposed to be living like Bruce Wayne. You're not spray painting things on the walls.

It turns out that the thing that Scotty Pippen has kept in his personal vault this entire time is, in fact, the basketball from the Bull's very first title clinching game, game five of the 91 finals. Not the last dance, though, but the first dance. And so he's now tokenizing. He turned the Game 5 ball into this crypto Web 3 product,

which is, in other words, like a meme coin. He launched it in August 2024, ahead of every single at Scotty Pippen Post, we've shown thus far. And the ball, yes, it's the thing he was advertising on his cap in that video at the conference. It's the thing that was on his hoodie in the gold frame. It's the thing that has assured everybody, this is really me and this is really worth it.

And if you continue to have questions about how a physical basketball can be the basis of a meme coin. I do. And even more generally, what is Web 3? I would like to introduce another member of the at Scotty Pippin Cinematic Universe because this is a talking AI-generated basketball that loves making extremely organic comparisons

to the 1991 Chicago Bulls. Shout out to women creators flipping the script with Web 3, turning financial hurdles into straight fire opportunities. No gatekeepers in sight. It's like the 1990. Chicago Bull's shattering dynasties, pure dominance and empowerment. Debate is Web3's revolution bigger than how free agency changed sports forever? What's your hot take?

That voice you heard was a massive basketball with sunglasses on and a crown in a locker room that has names like Lorden. Can we zoom in on? Yeah, there it is. Yep. Michael Lorden, one of the greatest players of the last. ball time. Is it weird that the basketball has a crown and then there's also Stacey King? Is this basketball supposed to, did Stacey King get turned into a basketball? Like, is that, is that what this is? Scotty Pippen is pitching a movie where Stacey King gets turned into a basketball

and that's the secret to the Bull's success is that their own teammate is the basketball. And so he keeps going into the basket for his teammates because that's what a good teammate does. Okay. That's what this is. I'm all for this weird, like, in the spirit of like Juana Man and those movies, a movie where, yeah, a basketball player gets turned into a cool basketball. And then it has dollar sign ball printed on it. Now, is that the print of a basketball or is that a tattoo?

If it is a tattoo, is that the chin, is that the chest, the neck area? A lot of questions with this nightmare for anyone who's taking an edible before, recording a podcast. There are dozens upon dozens, upon dozens of Game 5 ball videos like this. Far too many to play here. I should note, though, that I come to praise the ball because the ball, not totally unlike this podcast, also fancies itself, a watchdog of integrity, and also a big fan of good segways. What?

It's deeply troubling to learn how cryptocurrency is being exploited for military purposes, highlighting the unintended consequences of technology in real-world conflicts. This underscores the need for ethical innovation. On a lighter note, let's shift to something unifying, like elite sports debates, every fan knows. Who's the ultimate comeback king in the NBA, Michael Jordan's 91 Bulls, or LeBron's 2016 Cavaliers? Share your thoughts respectfully.

Okay. Now the ball has a crown, a different pair of sunglasses, some white-framed sunglasses, a cape. You said you wanted everyone to be a Batman character. The cape is flowing in a bat-like fashion. Okay, all right, I got to ask the question. Is it a cape in the same way that Batman and Superman wear a cape? Or is the ball, in fact, wearing a du rag?

And this is the cape of the du rag blowing... Oh. behind it, regally, majestically. I mean... And does the ball have waves? Is that where the tracks of the, you know, the channels in a basketball? Are they created from the ball wearing a du rag at night

and brushing its hair religiously, putting product in there? I mean, now that you say it, it does feel like that. Because also, even the way that the conversation started, that does feel a little bit like, barbershop conspiratorial. Like, the guy who shows up into a barbershop with a full wave cap but never actually gets his hair cut.

And then transitions, true to, I think, the Platonic Barbershop to basically wanting to do first take. Here's my conspiracy theory. Anyway, let's talk about, is it Jordan or LeBron? Who you got? Respectfully.

Respectfully. But also, the weird part of it, knowing that Scotty Pippen is involved, in this, and knowing his dynamic with Uncle Mike, there is a part of me where that isn't just Michael Jordan's 91 Bulls. I also think that all of this points to maybe an Occam's razor explanation, which is where I started, which is maybe Scotty Pippin's not running this account. But in fairness, as we continue to assemble evidence here, I should point out that the

anti-corruption perspective expressed in the first third of that video by the talking ball was additionally interesting to me because when the dollar sign ball meme coin was launched on the Ethereum platform, basically as a stock that people could buy into, this was August of 2024, there was certain backlash. As the outlet Bitcoinsist observed, a Twitter user and blockchain sleuth named at Zach XBT noticed the developer wallet that created the top token contract dumped about $330,000 of the supply almost immediately after launch. This is otherwise known in the world of crypto as allegedly a rug pull. And in this diagram, which was provided by that Twitter user at Zach XBT, you sort of see

his tracking of the flows of crypto. Also, $330,000, you said? $330,000. So Pippin's jersey number. Oh. 33. But if you zoom in on the diagram, you can also see a particular connection he highlighted, a connection he made to an abandoned project called Lil Hippo.

Lil Hippo, in case you were wondering. A great rapper gone too soon. Little Hippo. SoundCloud rapper, little hippo. Not nearly dissimilar enough from what it actually was, which was a series of cartoon hippos, kind of like board apes,

but for hip-hop hippos. Wow. It launched 2022. Wow. The website no longer works. The Instagram account has been abandoned, but is still alive for us to evaluate. Wow.

That first one, they're graduated. Congratulations. The question that I'm left with, though, as we connect these dots ourselves and analyze the world of crypto art projects, is whether the voice, I mean, the voice of the Game 5 ball we've been listening to during this episode sounds at all familiar. It's disheartening to see the impact of allegations like those against Ben Pasternak in the crypto space, affecting investors and raising questions about trust. This echoes the need for integrity, much like an elite sports where fair play defines legends. On a lighter note for sports fans, what's your pick for the greatest NBA comeback ever? Like the 1997 Bulls' resilience against the jazz. Is that Terrence Howard?

It's not Terrence Howard. It didn't say Maine not one time in that speech, so it's not Terrence Howard. I'm sorry, I can't get past. every speech starts with something massive and real world and then just casually turns out. Yeah, so like those 97 bulls, that was pretty cool too, right? Also, the way the sunglasses are positioned on the ball in this one with the channels moving downward, it indicates the ball's pretty pissed right here.

I got to say, I had the luxury, of course, of spending hours of my life thinking about where have I heard this voice before? And then I realized that I had seen it in a video years ago that also takes us back to the pandemic and the phenomenon of The Last Dance. Over here, man, over here watching this The Last Dance with Scotty Pippen, man. I'm watching Scotty with Scotty. It's another level. Now just going back to what I was saying about how

Tyrese is a man who built a Benny Hanna in his backyard, a recreation of a Benny Hanna in his backyard. He is not won a single NBA championship, and he was able to do that. You win six. Your backyard should look like the Vegas strip. Counterpoint? Transformers? Fast and the Furious. Oh, no, no.

Tyrese once said that he felt the Fast and Furious movies deserve an Oscar. And where I will grant him something is those movies, they are so successful in a way that they do deserve some recognition with a diverse group of people, one of the biggest movie franchises in an industry where people said, no, no, you have to have white stars for everything. They said,

that, and built this giant franchise. It is worth acknowledgement of some kind. Maybe not an Oscar, but maybe like a Cable Ace Award. Forget about it, C. Ludacris went to the moon. In our effort to fulfill the request of Cable Phanos and find out who is behind Scottie Pippen's weird social team, our investigation has now brought us to the human inspiration for the AI-generated voice of a talking basketball,

actor and R&B singer Tyrese Gibson, who really was watching The Last Dance, the highly enjoyable docu-series that Scottie Pippen apparently hated with Scotty Pippen and the aforementioned Scotty Pippin Jr. at Gibbsie Hanna, which is what he called the Benihana that he built inside of his yard. And the Gibbsi Hana at Tyrese's house in Woodland Hills in Southern California, unfortunately, the property has been sold. Oh, I know. But I did speak to two people who were lucky enough to visit and eat at Gibsy Hanna with Tyrese himself,

and one of them agreed to go on tape with Pablo Torre finds out for the very first time on the condition of anonymity. I mean, that's fucking insane. You have to go through his house, which has a life-sized bumbley from the movie Transformers, obviously. That's the foyer. You go through that into his backyard, past the mini Starbucks, and then you get to this small bungalow that Gibbsihan is in. And Gibbsihana, for the record, had a fully functioning Teppaniaki grill, because its eponymous host would accept nothing less. Here's the one thing about this house that you have to understand.

It's a big house, but the plot's not that big. So you're next to other houses, like, on his block. He just lives on, like, a block. There's a literal club. Wait a minute. I need to know about the club. I mean, the club is obviously club Voltron. It has both the main area and then also a VIP section with a table,

which the lid you remove and it turns into a hot tub. And then above the club is the... combo barbershop nail salon. Who is working here? You're talking about Chef Oscar? He's recruited chef from an Aptool Benihana, who is both Chef Blash DJ, and also great at both?

What is Chef Oscar? Does he do the Onion Volcano? Does he do the move? Yeah, he does everything. He's throwing shrimp in people's mouths, and, like, you know, he's really doing the whole thing. So you're saying that this is a true, replication of an actual Benihanna.

I mean, I would push you as far as say it's an improvement on a Benihana. It's a private Benihana experience with food that is as good, if not better, than a regular Benihana. And also, it's at Tyrese's house. Yeah, and right next to Club Ultron. Not enough restaurants have a Club Ultron, and that's a problem. But while I was scrolling through Tyrese's many, many, social media posts, I noticed something even more eye-catching than Club Boltron.

I noticed that Tyrese was not simply promoting Scotty Pippen's dollar-sign ball meme coin, which he was. Tyrese was also promoting a related and instrumental character in the whole Scotty Pippen cinematic universe. An apparently key partner and friend to both Tyrese and Scotty named Kiarish, Bahain, whose job is to explain how a physical basketball that Scottie Pippen saved from the clinching game five that won the Dynastic Chicago Bulls, their very first championship in 1991, is also the future. And I only know this because I stopped when Tyrese, seemingly, made a point to include a

photo with a Forbes logo plastered over it underneath the headline, Social Media's Secret Weapon. And in the caption, Wyatt, Tyrese writes this. Entrepreneur, creative director, strategist, viral marketer, founder, father, Billboard hits, number one albums, Fast and the Furious, Jeff Bezos, JZ, Top TV shows, Blockchain, AI, Quiet Chain, AI, Quiet, Power. power. Ten billion viral hits and counting. That was, I added the air horn for effect. This is John Ralphio, right? Just random buzzwords.

What's cool? What's cool right now? AI, blockchain, J.Z. Jeff Bezos. One quick side note about the viral hits, the 10 billion of them. He showcases viral hits like this. All right, my brothers and sisters, let me set this right here. Now we're going to learn that I had a dream dance. First step, point that thing up, let them know you see a higher vision. Step it forward. Now I'm miserable.

Wow. So that was, yeah, that was AI MLK. Yep. teaching a TikTok dance called the I Have a Dream Dance, which, sure, if someone wanted to make a sketch about what it would be like to try to advance the cause of civil rights in the intersection of social media, I could see that as some sketch on a sketch show, but to just pass it off as some weird, like, AI. Look at me being funny without any context

or really anything clever other than, here's my premise. They cut it off before the dance. Because it couldn't figure that part out. It was all premise. It was all just the dream of like, hey, what if MLK was around today and he had to do TikTok dances? I don't know why I was doing a shi Bill Cosby impression.

Hey, there, what if? What's if? So I'm a see, but do, blah. Camille. And you're Dr. King. No, I'm curious. This is the part I'm really curious about. Dumb concept for a video was the dumb concept itself created by AI as well.

This brings us to the question of agency. which I think is actually central to the entire episode we've been doing here, I think. But Tyrese's caption about his good friend, Kyrash Bahain, Wyatt, it does continue. Now he's innovating sports with at Game 5 ball and still moving like a silent assassin in digital, culture, finance, and tech. Most people never get flowers while they can still smell them, so I'm giving them to him now. Now, he's one of one.

That's AI. That statement right there, 100% that's AI. I can tell by the rhythms. Well, look, if you're wondering about the, you know, again, it was all of this fake, the Jeff Bezos, the Jay-Z, the shout-outs. It turns out that when you do go to the Ball Foundation's website, because this is also according to their website, A Foundation. Oh, that's good.

You not only see that Scottie Gibbons's friend, Kiarish Bahain, is indeed listed as a CEO and co-founder. You also see photos of him with Jeff Bezos. The point. He's exactly who you think it is.

That's what the point is. And that is Jeff Bezos before the muscle milk. And also here he is with Jay-Z. Now he's pointing at us. Yeah. He's pointing at us for doubting him.

Yeah. Also, I didn't realize Jay's so tall. For scale, maybe this will help. It's a photo of Scotty Pippen. And the previous gentleman from the conference, Michael Saylor, both sitting down as over on the left side, Kiarish Bahain is standing there wearing a cap, a matching cap. Much like the one Scotty Pippen is wearing on his head with dollar sign ball. intrigue you guys and educate you guys a little bit about what's going on in the crypto world.

Yes, sir. Mr. Pippin, thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, when Scotty told me about the Game 5 ball, at the time it was one of his most prized possessions along with his six rings, his two Olympic gold medals. But when I seen this basketball, I see culture. I see sports history. I've seen us, an opportunity for us to be a part of innovation in the future. And I presented an idea to Mr. Pippen. The idea is simple. You take a basketball, you break it into a billion pieces,

and you allow fans in the world to build a project with you like they did the various projects you hear about, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, etc. But this is a different project. We're building the new Nike, the new business, as an example. We're using Nike, of course. But the new world is becoming tokenized. And with this basketball, it's interesting because Forbes recently did a feature on ball.

And they put the energy out there that there's a man on planet Earth by the name of Scotty Pippen, who is taking culture and allowing for the world to turn it into currency. The reference to Forbes that they made, by the way, I should point out that Forbes is not the publication that I want to draw your attention to next. Because, Wyatt, I need us to turn actually to us weekly from February 2022 and this headline. How rundown media CEO Kiyahash Bahain

is changing Hollywood and the Metaverse with his new NFT exclusive. And the story continues. Kyrash Bahain, CEO of Rundown Media, recently announced the launch of Lil Hippo, which he describes as a dope collection of 10,000 Lil Hippo NFTs that is helping the next generation enter the Metaverse.

However, what sets Bahain apart from his A-LIS friends also engaging in cryptocurrency is that Lil Hippo is meant to reach a younger demographic. Introducing the concept of crypto to Gen Z and so on. Who wrote this? I love that and so on is in the article. Yeah. You know, and the other generations, should we get there?

I don't know, maybe... You get the drift. Yeah. Maybe we'll be trapped in a forever war and we'll be done. And so on. Yeah, and so on. And so at this point, I mean, with... At Zach XBT's diagram featuring Lil Hippo NFT in mind.

I, of course, needed to connect with Kiarash Bahain on LinkedIn, where I asked him three questions in particular in the service of at cable Thanos. Question number one. Are you behind Scottie Pippen's viral social media content? To which Kiarish Bahain replied, quote, I work closely with Scotty on strategy and digital direction, but he is very hands-on and deeply involved in what is being built and communicated. Number two, would Scottie Pippen and or Tyrese Gibson be interested in an interview with me?

Scottie and Tyrese are not doing interviews at this time. Number three, there has been previously reported backlash around the dollar-sign ball developer wallet selling about $330,000. worth of the supply almost immediately after launch in 2024. Do you have any comment? On the dollar sign ball launch, there was malicious trading activity, including, quote, snipers, unquote, around the deployer wallet at launch. The project was then paused and capital was redeployed back into the project, including additional liquidity and ongoing development.

We have published an on-chain launch report, so the activity can be reviewed and verified directly here. At which point, Wyatt, this is where I direct you to the folder in front of you. Oh, all right. Oh, folder time. Yeah. In which there is a document that I printed out for you. It came via Google Drive link from Kiarushbahane.

Could you please describe page one? All right. Save for this moment, Wyatt. Yeah, shit. I, yeah, I open it too fast. Oh, wow. Okay. Game 5 ball, for the first time ever, we are token.

Organizing history with history. And then there's an ex-account link. And I should say that I'm no crypto expert here, but the document then goes on to describe how, quote, the project encountered aggressive attacks, including impersonation, fishing, and sniping, leading to a decision to, quote, protect liquidity amidst attacks

by transferring approximately $330,000 to develop a wallet, to quote, safeguard funds. I am loosing page 2 from the paperclip. Ooh, that's smooth. So there's a transparency and trust section, which says we invite our community to verify all transactions through the provided contract and deployer addresses. This transparency underscores our commitment to building trust

and protecting our community. And then, moving forward, we are excited about the next steps and encouraged by our community's dedication to making dollar-signed ball a leading RWA for sports success in crypto. The community will take a vote on burning tokens and take steps to begin phase two of the ball project and continue to add liquidity and LP tokens. We're also responding to all the companies and organizations

interested that have reached out for potential partnerships and collaborations in sports, tech, gaming, venture capital, and who understand the value of a championship ball played by legendary basketball players. We acknowledge that no launch is perfect and commit to continuous improvement. Building trust is an ongoing journey, and we appreciate your support. Maybe I'm just an old-fashioned kind of guy, or maybe I'm an idiot, but I didn't understand a single thing that was said there. It just sounds like gibberish. Yeah. I mean, the last sentence feels like one of those things that is, if our actions offended anyone, please know,

that was not our intent. We acknowledge that note, like, that it feels like some weird, like, PR apology, non-apology. Well, for the record, I was also a bit confused, and I further reached out to Scotty Pippen and Tyrese Gibson directly. Neither of them, granted an interview to Pablo Torre finds out. But I do. do think there is one voice that might provide some clarity at the end here. It's alarming to see how AI is being misused for scams, leaving people feeling vulnerable and outsmarted, much like how a rigged game can shadow the trust in sports we all hold dear. Just think about the integrity of legends like Michael Jordan's 1991 Bulls.

One fake move could tarnish that legacy forever. let's discuss how can we protect what's real in both tech and sports to keep the playing field fair for everyone and so on this has been Pablo Torre finds out a metal arc media production and i'll talk to you next time