Pablo Torre Finds Out - Behind the Scenes of Pablo's History-Making "Family Feud" Adventure
Episode Date: November 28, 2024How do you out-smart a survey of 100 average Americans? Who channels Jimmy V during the commercial break of a game show? Why didn't Mina Kimes show up on "Fast Money"? And what color is green? Pablo r...eacts to his epic appearance on this week's "Celebrity Family Feud" with buzzer-caressing Dan Le Batard, Celebrity Jeopardy! veteran Katie Nolan and super-fan Mike Golic Jr. Plus: talking sh*t about Harvard, handshaking vigorously with Steve Harvey, unbuttoning a shirt with John Legend, the "Hey Jealousy" torture experiment and Cam from Oklahoma.This episode originally aired September 19, 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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.
Oh, my God, woke over here, analytics over there.
Can we just play the f*** feud?
Right after this ad.
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I want to establish, so Dan is here, Gojo is here, Katie is here,
because people have been asking me, did you have a watch party,
for your episode of Celebrity Family Feud.
And I said, absolutely not.
I watched it by myself in my living room on the floor
and was overwhelmed with everything that happened
that I did not remember.
And I said,
the real watch party is happening in studio
on a little show that is named after me
in which I will be the most narcissistic, Dan Labatard,
that a narcissist has ever been.
Not surprising at all
that you would dedicate an entire episode to this.
You told us,
Don't bring any prep.
Just bring yourselves, and we will just sit around talking about me the entire time.
It was so scary.
Can I just say that up front?
So Gojo is here not just because we love Gojo.
Gojo is here because Gojo was there.
Gojo was in the audience.
It's a big building.
It's the biggest building I've ever been in, it felt like.
Huh.
And there's crowds of people.
I am the man in the arena, as Tom Brady likes to say.
As that quote goes.
And it's horrifying and in the crowd, like an emotional support audience member,
dancing to the music piped into that arena is Mike Golick Jr.
Just being himself and it helped me so much.
Good teammate.
I had to do something to at least offer any bit of value there
because this was the hardest co-tail riding I had done in quite some time,
just drafting off Mina and Pablo's popularity and how.
how cool they are, to get myself in the door of my favorite game show, all of my young adult
life, into my adult life, to see Steve Harvey in person, Pablo and Mina had made that possible.
So the least I could do was bring golden retriever energy to the audience.
I would have killed to see a Steve Harvey family feud in person.
I'm the most jealous.
I've watched so many hours of this man perfectly hosting this game show.
Nothing has felt more like climbing into a television than encountering Steve Harvey in person.
He is a surreal entity.
What do he smell like?
What do he smell like? Cologne?
Good question.
He smelled like money.
That's dirty smelling.
That smells disgusting.
Money smells gross.
He smelled like money sprayed with Cologne.
Ah, okay.
It looked like a level from like a Batman video game.
It did.
It was just like enormous gray bleak.
But in the middle of it,
where these gleaming lights in this soundstage in Culver City.
And inside of that soundstage, the show began.
So awkward at this part.
I'm obsessed with how awkward you are.
Not the coolest I've ever looked.
No.
The way you just look at other people.
Looking at Mina, looking around.
I'm trying to look cool.
Why don't they put you in order?
More starched than dry cleaning.
Having to do that opposite.
John Legend, who is so effortlessly cool.
And Steve Harvey, who's so effortlessly cool.
Steve Harvey walks out there in a suit that I've never seen before.
It's just like, no one's ever won that.
What is this color combination?
That's all one gleaming, shimmering color that smells like, again, pheromones.
Satine, I think it's called.
I have no idea.
Fancy.
You looked incredibly uncomfortable.
He dressed as like a bond villain.
He does.
And he immediately was like pointing to the real celebrities like John Legend.
Like, that's his guy.
Ladies gentlemen, my dog, the legend, John Legend.
Time Grammy Award winner and Oscar Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner.
Wow.
And it's currently on the voice.
How you been, man?
Very good.
I'm looking to add Family Feud winner to my trophy list.
Yeah, immediately, by the way, they did start to, like, talk some shit.
Oh.
We're a bit of a goof troop, but we're excited and we're ready.
Okay, well, that's good.
We've got some Harvard grads over there.
Is that talking shit?
I mean...
You graduated from Hart.
That's right.
You do not know what it is like to be buried in talk shit if you think that is talking shit.
Well, this is what became very obvious to us immediately.
So David Chang had assembled...
He'd casted this team of people who went to, like, fancy schools.
So the team, I mean, look, I'll say this just for the record here.
I wanted, like, gronk.
I felt like we needed one token white guy.
I would have pulled Gojo out of the stands, frankly.
But instead, what he did,
what Chang did was assemble a team of, like,
of nerds to play family feud.
Let's go meet the change.
David Chang, everybody.
He's an award-winning chef.
You see him on Chrissy and Dave Dying Out.
And Dinner Time Live with David Chang
and New York Times bestselling author for his cookbooks.
Ladies and gentlemen, Michelle Wee West, everybody.
LPGA Tour wins.
I'm a big fan of yours.
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Mina Kine.
Analyst on NFL Live journalists at ESPN.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pablo Torre.
Award-winning sports writer, podcaster, and ESPN host.
Nice to meet you, Pablo.
Ladies and gentlemen, last with my niece, Chris Yean,
podcasting and co-hosts of Dineretime Live.
How you doing, man?
I'm excellent.
The handshake was a big moment.
Vigorous.
What prompted that?
Why did you want that for you?
I don't know.
No one else got their handshake displayed like that on our team.
Oh, did you pull his hand over to you?
It's like I sort of wanted him to do...
It was like a...
That's the most alpha male boot camp endorsed handshake.
I've seen a presidential debate before.
I need to send an electric sort of worm jolt into the guy.
I'm shaking hands with.
Any particular reason I didn't hear metal lark said by Steve Harvey instead of all the other
things that were said about Pablo Torre.
You will discover in the doing of this episode that in no way at any point was I in control.
I was not, I was, Steve, Steve had an agenda, Dan, that did not involve celebrating the
independent truth-seeking media company that you and I, of course, are so proud, so, so very
proud to represent it all times.
And I still don't have a key card for it.
I still have to knock on the door, didn't it?
Katie does sort of like paw like a cat.
I need a fob.
Yeah.
You guys had an agenda going into the naming.
You guys were almost not Team Chang on this,
and we're making the ABC production staff very uncomfortable
with your guys' attempt at name changing.
Thank you for reminding me.
So, an example, the prime example of how we are not in control
is that David Chang did not want to be the patriarch of this team.
He didn't want to be Team Chang.
And so he was asking, like, what should we be instead?
And I was like, oh, we can choose.
We should be Team Asia.
So many people were like, you know, this is confusing for lots of reasons because we are not related for the record.
We are not family.
I was going to say you're not doing yourself any favors with you and Mina aren't related, our related rumors.
So in this case, we were like, we want to be Team Asia.
And so we were telling this to the people out outside of the set before the thing started.
And the producer, Gojo was there.
Looking at him.
It was.
The white man's face.
His response to being provided the counter possibility of Team Asia was that of abject horror.
I truly wish you guys could have seen the old white producers sweating when they kept going back and be like, no, we want to be Team Asia.
And would have looked like Family Feud had named this team of Asian people, Team Asia.
It also doesn't say Team.
Right?
I think it just says Chang.
Oh.
It would have just said Asia.
It would have just said Asia, which I think would not be good.
They went back and like talk to the bigger boss.
like three times
that's coming back out
and he called really not
do this?
He called his own manager
and was like, I need to call
the manager.
Can you guys get corporate?
I'm incredibly white.
I'm in out of...
I'm in deep water here.
Can I tell them they can't
be Asian?
This is where we learned
that ABC desperately needs
more diversity
in their corporate level hiring.
Get your woke
out of my family.
FUD. Just get it out of here, okay? Get to the fun, please.
So speaking of the fun, Katie and I had dinner that week in L.A. You were there randomly.
And Katie provided me a strategy that I didn't. I brought it to the team. I brought the strategy
of the team. Could you explain the strategy? Okay, so I, like I said, I watch a lot of family feud.
And Pablo, I think when we had that dinner was like, I don't watch it. Almost borderline never seen it in the sense that like everybody's seen it. But you have not watched it really.
I've never broken down the all-22.
Sure. And so I was kind of telling him like, okay, you know, say good answer after every answer.
That's kind of a common. You've got to want to, even if it's the worst answer you've ever heard, you've got to hit him with a good answer.
Be very encouraging and a good teammate, which I did notice you did a bunch. I'm very proud of you.
But I also, then I went into something that later on my Uber ride back to my hotel, I was like, I don't think I should have told Pablo that.
I think that was too inside feud. It was two next level.
From the subreddit.
And when I told them that there was, you know, they give you, once you get the answer, they're like, do you want to pass or do you want to play?
Do you kick or receive?
Yes.
And I said, almost everybody says play, because you're there to play the game.
But technically, sometimes it's not a bad strategy to pass.
Right.
If there's a ton of answers on the board.
Seven or more.
Right?
Is that what it was?
Did I say that specifically?
Yes, you get to see on the board how many cards are there to be turned over.
And if there are seven or more statistically, to get all of it.
of those right is so unlikely, and that's the only way you can get the point if you choose to play.
Exactly.
And so what if you were to just tank?
If you wait.
What if you were to tank the buzzer?
You let them get three wrong.
Then it comes back to you.
You only have to get one answer.
And you can have collaborated on what that one answer is.
Oh, my God.
Woke over here, analytics over there.
Can we just play the f*** feud?
Finish him.
Hey, take it easy.
Take it easy.
Top seven answers on the board.
Name something a man might say is actually an upside to being in jail.
You hit the buzzer, you're supposed to say something.
I'm like, how inappropriate can we be?
Okay, Michelle?
No rent.
No rent.
Uh, alone time.
A long time.
Immediately, we're like...
I got the woke out of there pretty quick for you, Dan.
How can that not be, how can that be no spouse?
How can that be, how can that only be wife?
They're not letting the woke wound your feud, Dan.
That's right.
The carceral state.
Number one thing about it, no wife.
That's everybody's number one review.
You could tell, by the way, that like our plan immediately, like, hypothetically made sense.
It's like seven answers on the board.
all that stuff.
But we just,
a recurring theme is that we are very slow on the buzzer.
The good news, though, the silver lining was that the plan,
the logic of the plan, is borne out.
It begins to work because the category is super hard.
Seven answers.
And just to speed through it.
So number one, no wife slash family.
Ridiculous.
Number two, meals a day.
Three meals a day.
Yep.
Number three is no rent slash bills.
Saw that.
Number six is no job.
job. Number seven is
meet new friends.
And so...
Really? The four and five answers are left blank,
and so we have a chance now to steal
the category. All right, here's your chance.
Name something a man might say is actually an upside
to being in jail.
Steve, we're going to go with streetcred.
Good answer.
Good answer.
Too good. The answer was too good.
Yeah, so we're down.
I will say this is where the Harvard and the like
Dream Team Assembly thing is actually not the greatest for this type of game.
This game is average American.
You're supposed to think like, what is some dummy that's answering this poll going to say?
Not what is the smartest, cleverest answer.
Yeah, this became clear with the next category.
We got the top seven answers on the board.
Name something sexy you'd never want to see your mother wearing.
Oh, God, I hated this.
Thaw?
A thaw.
Whoa.
Good answer.
Exceptional answer.
But not number one.
I mean, we'd assume just lingerie, right?
A teddy is a wild thing to say.
But there it is.
There it is.
Also, Knightie doesn't evoke sexy to me.
Nighty is like a long...
That's the most John Legend answer of all time, though.
Like, of course he would say it's a...
Yeah, an answer that's basically crooned, even if it's said, is Teddy.
You could see, by the way, if you, again,
grind the all-22.
You can see Michelle Wee
after gets the answer right,
look back at us
being like,
are we going to pass?
Oh, that's funny.
And then, of course,
the choice is taken from our hand
because John Legend
gets it right with Teddy.
But again, Katie,
it's seven answers.
Yep.
And then, of course,
they don't get all seven
because getting all seven
is statistically
almost impossible, it turns out.
You got two strikes.
We've got to be careful.
Chain team can steal.
Shear or see-through clothing.
Shear or see-through clothing.
Good answer, Lana.
Thank you, thank you.
All right.
All right, here we go. Name something sexy you'd never want to see your mother wearing.
Uh, birthday suits.
Nothing.
Her birthday suit.
Bikini, bra, miniskirt, sexy maid costume.
What?
Stripper heels.
Shearleader outfit.
Searly made, but not a schoolgirl.
Specific fetishes.
You could see your mom in a schoolgirl.
Halloween slut outfit.
There's a...
Herring.
We're down 141 points to zero.
Crazy.
This is when, I don't know if Katie ever experienced this, I presume not in Celebrity Jeopardy.
This is when the stage manager comes by and is like, don't give up.
That's really funny.
You can come back.
It's possible to win the game.
You got the Jim Volvano speech during family feud because you were down 141 to nothing.
Don't ever give up?
We did not believe in miracles.
We were contemplating increasingly that they,
This was going to be just a series of viral humiliations.
Nobody more concerned about this, by the way, than our dear friend Mia comes.
At this point, you feel like you're embarrassing your Asian brethren, right?
You feel like...
No handshake?
Wow.
Nothing.
Cold.
Comeback starts here.
Come back starts here.
Yeah.
He's so focused.
Top seven answers on the board.
Again.
Crazy.
What kitchen gas?
Would you compare your love making two?
A wooden spatula.
What?
What?
All right now.
A wooden spatula.
And she goes, I don't look.
Get a splinter in it.
I don't know.
A wooden spatula.
Underrated line with go.
Get a splinter.
Nothing.
Oven.
Oven.
Hey!
Oh, what are they going to do?
We're going to play.
We, Mina, unilaterally was like,
we're not getting skunked like this.
We're receiving.
We need to play, yeah.
We're playing.
The right call.
The stage manager also, by the way.
Absolutely the right call.
You didn't come out here to lay up.
Exactly.
If it hadn't been,
if the game wasn't going the way it was going,
it would be nuts to pass with zero points before.
If we finally got it, no thanks.
You guys take this one.
Wait a minute.
That was the third Sixers season that they tanked in.
It was like, guys, really again?
I feel like what Katie just did there is what I spent like seven seasons ago yelling about in football
that you have to go for it on fourth and short,
and then someone would fail on fourth and short and people would yell at me.
You idiot, you can't go for it.
She just made the correct argument.
And, in fact, taught me something about feud strategy I did not know by saying,
you got a pass when there are seven of them,
but not if you have zero points and you have a chance.
on behalf of Asia to be sent home not getting to ever play the game.
That is tough.
Billions.
I could feel the billions upon billions of people on the planet
pressuring me as this happened.
Come on, here we go.
Come on, Pablo, let's go, baby.
What kitchen gadget would you compare your lovemaking to?
Steve, I'm going to compare it to a blender.
A blender.
What I said at home, I was like, let's go, Pablo.
Putting it on you.
Big.
Big.
We should have known right after that
that Pablo was destined
for great things on this show.
Big.
Putting it on you.
Did Steve Harvey just say
that Pablo in the bedroom
is putting it on you?
Because it's not a way
I've ever looked at Pablo before.
Or blenders.
That is a LinkedIn endorsement now
on my profile.
Steve Harvey said that he's putting it on you.
He puts it on you.
Amazing.
It was not a concern
because luckily,
our team, our team captain,
is the head of a food empire,
a food media company,
and they were going next.
Yeah, true.
Chris, what kitchen gadget
will you compare your lovemaking to?
My lovemaking is most similar to a potato masher.
My.
Specific.
See, again, to inside baseball.
Yes.
I do love making is comparable to a potato mash.
I do love the way he made for them.
David, what kitchen gadget would you compare your lovemaking to?
You gotta get this one, dude.
Come on.
He's quick like a microwave oven.
A microwave oven because of it.
On brand, too.
The prosthetic.
Microwave.
The idea that Michelle Weed.
would be suffering this indignity,
and I know her to be less competitive
on that panel than Mina Kimes,
who right now, like, Lava
is spewing from her ears because
she's embarrassing herself nationally
and internationally.
And she weaponized that to
immediately not help David
Chang get an answer in a field that
he knows very well, but to remind
him that the eyes of the nation
expect him to excel in his field.
She was like, you better
get this right. You got to get it.
You got to get this comma dude slash mother-f-k.
Also, the tone of it was like, we got to get this.
Oh, it's just increasingly agro.
Yeah.
She was the audience yelling at him at home from right next to him
that was supposed to be the supportive teammate.
And also, just so we can get Mina's actual thoughts on the matter herself,
here she is on an episode of the Dave Chang show that we just taped,
explaining what was going through her mind as all of us were getting zero and
is correct.
When the questions and the answers started coming in and we saw how dumb, they're dumb.
It's not elitist of me to say.
They're dumb questions with dumb answers.
I think that's just accurate.
However, because I'm competitive, when we started losing, I pivoted to, this game is
dumb and I hate it.
It's for idiots so quickly.
And I feel like we all did.
My whole thing, by the way, at this point was like, and I had to sort of, who am I
channeling. What's my motivation? Right? I'm not me. Who am I trying to be? I'm like, oh,
what would Homer Simpson do was the question? That was like, what would Homer Simpson do if he was
being polled by the survey? I don't think Michelle we necessarily approached it in the same way.
Michelle, we got two strikes. The legend team can steal. Air fryer.
And air friar.
It don't really fly. It just doesn't really fly. It just
make you think it's fried.
Air fry.
And so, of course,
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend,
they smell blood.
Chrissy Darling,
what kitchen gadget
would you compare your love making to?
I'm going to go with
Slow Cooker.
John Legend.
Literally crooning.
Did he unbuttoned another button
during that answer?
I think he did.
Crazy.
That's four hours.
The lowest you could cook something on slow cookers, four hours.
That's insane.
I'd be tapping way out.
Do you guys know how hard it is for me, forgive the phrasing of that,
to be jealous of the bedroom life of two people while I'm watching family feud based on just how they answered that?
Like she did not actually care about the actual ability of that answer to be.
right as much as it was to just remind people,
hey, we're f-
I'm a model and he's a crooner
and we bang quite a bit
for quite a long time.
Everything you guys think
is all true.
The flavor is being stewed into the meat.
Oh, God.
Slowly throughout the day.
And you thought Pablo put it on you.
For the record here,
the answers were in order from one to seven,
Blender slash mixer, spoon slash ladle, hot oven, cork opener, can opener,
bastor, whisk slash beater.
Also, the fact that fork isn't on there is crazy.
It sounds like nobody said fork.
It was very frustrating questions.
I like that Katie is the election denier on the show.
Stop the deal.
Luckily, though, what we stole was 98 points.
We're on the board.
We got no answers that actually deserve 98 points, but we got 98 points.
And now I have to walk up to the bus.
Let me go to the bus.
Give me Mike.
Come on, Mike.
All right, fellas, point values are triple.
We got the top four answers on the board.
We asked 100 married men.
If you woke up a single man tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd buy?
A car.
What is stopping you from?
buying a car when you have a wife.
But Pablo, Pablo, real quick, so far, no one has actually won this game by doing it correctly, correct?
The only winners there are here are points given because the other people have failed.
Yes.
So, just so we can speed through this part, nobody gets anything right on that side.
And so the opportunity to steal again, to Dan's point, this entire game is.
actually a validation of Katie's strategy, which is try to steal. Try to steal. But before we do,
something happens that I don't know has ever happened in the history of Celebrity Family Feud or anything.
It's pathetic, and it is voiced by Steve Harvey himself.
Come on out the huddle, because I got some news for you. Here's the deal. This is how bad this game has been going.
If it's there or not, we're going to play sudden death.
Because we don't have enough points to reach 300.
We did it.
We did it.
The pressure's all out, but let's just see anyway.
We ask 100 married men if you woke up a single man tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd buy?
Motorcycle.
Good answer.
A motorcycle.
Not good enough.
These answers that you guys are giving are just clearly too.
good. This was Mina's thought, which you can hear her think as we hear what the answer has turned out to be.
This is so stupid. Oh, no. Mina is at that moment reading her own mentions from the future.
Oh my God, she so is. She's doing the mental math of how this is going to go for her. And by the way, like, so. So,
Gojo, I think, could get this sense from being around us pregame.
But, like, David Chang and Chris Yang, these are business partners' friends.
But Chang doesn't trust Chris?
That's why, so Dan was asking, like, what's the lineup order?
The lineup order was that whatever it is, Chris Yang is last.
Because David Chang regards him as a choker.
And just so you know that I am not exaggerating any of this,
here is Dave Chang on the Dave Chang Show,
describing Chris Ying's history of choking.
Listen, Chris Ying is well known to choke under pressure at ordering in a restaurant, okay?
He orders the most ridiculous things because he's so nervous that the waiter is waiting too long for an answer
that I was like, man, we won't even need Chris at that.
I'll have two cop salads.
Yeah, so that's why I'm like, Chris is going to be great.
Just don't put him in a high pressure situation.
He does not want him to go to the buzzer
In Family Feud Rules
The first four people of your team
Don't they go to the buzzer
The fifth person does not
Right
Unless
Unless
Unless he sucks so bad
An unprecedented sudden death
Sub 300
Buzzoff
In which suddenly the fifth starting
rotation has to go up
With everything on the line
And do this
Well nobody reached three out the point
So we're going to play sudden death
He has to say that point
I've never seen that before.
In his most excited game show host voice,
the most disappointed he's ever been.
I've seen it in real, but I've never seen it in celebrity.
Oh my God.
For this survey, we're asking for the top answer only.
Whoever gets this one answer will win the game.
Good luck to both of you.
Here we go.
Name a color used in camouflage.
So just to pause this year,
this is the most insultingly
easy category in the history of game shows.
What is the color associated with camouflage?
And there is just one stupid answer.
It is the opposite of our strategy.
We have to buzz first and say the obvious answer.
Just say it.
Chris Ying buzz in and say it.
Choker.
Green.
Green.
Chris Ying is Kirk Cousins leading the game-winning drive
on Monday night football with the Atlanta Falcons,
a whole game of relative mediocrity in the passing game
for someone not known as a clutch performer.
And in the biggest spot, he absolutely lands to play.
I have two observations here, two observations.
One is that that got only 82 out of 100 people on green,
which is funny by itself.
But also, the only way that I can interpret what that question was,
the way that I heard it, is what color,
is green.
Like, that's how I heard it.
They were just...
It's like Celebrity Jeopardy! S&L.
They're trying to help toddlers
win the game that they're bad at.
What noise does a doggie make?
They're like, the runtime of this show
does not accommodate an extra round.
So let's make sure we get this one.
We won the game 98 to 285.
Okay.
We lost the game
by being down 187 points,
but because of green,
Made it to Fast Money.
Fast money for those who are not familiar,
is the part of the show where you're charity,
this is for charity, let's also remember that, I guess.
That's important.
They went all the money if you can crack 200 points.
That question, by the way, was also charity, to be clear.
Gojo, explain what you saw.
Originally, you guys had selected you and Mina
to represent the team up there.
But they wanted to have David up there
because it was his team.
And so Mina had to go back to the bullpen.
This was not seen on TV,
but this is the behind-the-scenes part of this
that they had to decide.
No.
No.
Dan, there is a take of this
where me and Mina are standing on either side of Steve Harvey
about to do fast money.
I would love to see her face.
I want to see that.
It was so intense.
You've got to call the feud
and you've got to get them to give you
the audio that hasn't been released.
You have to.
It gets better because me and Mina are locked in,
obviously.
Chang didn't want to do it.
Right.
That's why Mina and I were there.
And the stage manager who was like,
by the way, guys, please don't give up,
was like, by the way, guys, this is celebrity family feud.
The captain of the team needs to do this.
You coward.
You guys should have argued back.
We're all so famous, okay?
Have you ever watched?
Yeah, afternoon sports television
at a sports bar with a movie.
We're very famous to a very niche group.
That's right.
This was the third take, by the way.
So at one point, Steve Harvey says, David, good to see you.
Because Chang was so discombobulated.
Yes.
Remember this, Gojo?
He walks out and he keeps on walking off stage.
He doesn't stop.
It's like the opposite of when Michael Vick scored that touchdown against the Vikings
where he runs out the tunnel except it's before anything is actually scored.
Why?
Because he didn't know what was happening.
And doesn't want to do it.
And he's afraid.
and is afraid into doing something, bullied into a stage manager.
Look, I don't want to talk about why it is that meekness is not acceptable in these circumstances,
but walking off of the stage three times because you're afraid of a stage manager does not deserve
to be a captain of one of these teams.
Oh, no.
So after the successful take three, I get sent backstage, so I go second.
So immediately we're like, I should probably.
go last.
So there's not so much pressure on him.
He doesn't pass out like a goat.
Trying to help Chang.
They send me backstage and I have big headphones on.
Yeah, because they ask the same five questions
and you cannot give the same answer as each other.
And so I have never, of course,
I've never seen the backstage of Family Feud.
It is an even more intimidating place.
Headphones go on, big headphones like these,
and on loop in my headphones is the song,
Hey, Jealousy.
Huh. Jim Blossoms?
So there was a security guard standing in front of me looking,
and in front of him was the monitor in which you could see everything.
Huh.
And so he had that monitor at like a one-degree angle past what I could see,
almost daring me to try and like break out and like peek around the corner.
Instead, I'm just like locking eyes with this man.
I just close my eyes.
As he is watching this, as hey jealousy and like a clockwork orange, like just military-style.
torture experiment is playing over and over again,
which means that I could not experience what Gojo got to see in the audience,
which was this.
And now it's time to play.
All right, you ready?
Let's go.
20 seconds on the clock, please.
We ask 100 men, you're naked in the woods.
Someone walks by.
What do you cover yourself with?
A brancher.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how night?
are your neighbors?
Two.
Name the greatest breakfast food ever created.
Burrito.
Name someone you should never call when you're drunk.
Uh...
Police.
Name a coin you throw into a fountain to make a wish.
Quarter.
100 men.
You're naked in the woods.
Someone walks by.
What do you cover yourself with?
You said...
Some branches.
Survey said...
One to ten, how nice are your neighbors?
You said...
Two, survey said...
Said, name the greatest breakfast food ever created.
You said, the burrito.
Survey said.
Yeah.
Name someone you should never call when you're drunk.
You said, oh yeah, the police.
Hello, it's me.
Survey said.
That's so bad.
Hello.
Calling you throw into a fountain to make a wish, you said,
quarter.
Survey said,
Just, hello, it's me.
It's so funny.
It's being roasted by Steve.
Don't call the cops and say you're hammered.
I thought it was a better answer than eight.
Gojo, what was the mood in the room?
Extremely down like it had been the entire time.
This was the extension of exactly what you guys had put on tape so far this performance.
And so now you were coming up into,
arguably the most high-pressure environment in game shows,
where you are the last lifeline for this team.
And I am so fascinated to get a peek under the hood pop-a.
Because like Katie, we all sit at home and play this and yell it out,
but it's impossible to replicate the circumstances that you walked into here.
And I love you, but you were wearing the nerves coming out.
Like, I could see it on you as you walked out and put those headphones off.
I walked out, okay?
Headphones off.
Hey, jealousy is over.
I walk out.
I immediately notice a almost like depressive Mina Kimes.
Yeah, she was stone-faced.
And the mood in the room is a mixture of things that is confusing to me
and only making me more and more terrified.
You're like a dog.
But you in her, like a puppy they put in a room.
And he's like, what?
Right.
There's a lot of sensory overload.
I may have started peeing down my leg.
Well, Pablo.
Yeah, Steve.
It's gonna take a massive effort.
Okay.
He didn't do bad.
Okay, okay.
He got 54.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's all right.
Yeah.
Now listen to me.
Listen to me.
You got all the number ones left.
On regular family feud, I've seen people make this comeback.
This will be the first on celebrity.
Pablo, you can do what's never been done before.
You can make history as the highest second contestant ever in the history of celebrity family feud.
Come on.
Going to be a little bit tougher.
We're going to give you 25 seconds.
How high were you, actually?
I was residually stone.
It was in my bloodstream.
He was clearly meant to say something else.
But the way he said that in your face just went,
it was one of those things where I'm like,
Does he know?
Does Steve Harvey know?
Does he know?
What's up?
Pretty high right now.
Does Steve Harvey expect me to not look into the camera and break the fourth wall and acknowledge what was just said?
You seemed not that nervous to me there.
You were very like, okay, that's doable, the little point?
That confidence.
Honestly, when Steve said that, it kind of broke me out of a spell a bit.
And I was like, oh, okay, wait a minute.
As the drugs wearing off, opportunity has arrived.
I will say, I did, from there, mostly,
blackout. I'm ready, Steve.
All right, let's mind everybody if David's answers.
25 seconds on the clock,
please. Let's go, man.
All right. We ask 100 men.
You're naked in the woods.
Someone walks by.
What do you cover yourself with?
On a scale of 1 to 10,
how nice are your neighbors?
Four.
Name the greatest breakfast food ever
created. Bake.
Name someone you should never call when you're drunk.
Your mom.
Name a corn.
You throw into a fountain to make a wish.
A penny.
We got a shot.
So fast.
So fast.
You were, that was Will Farrow in old school.
Yes, yes.
I truly, like, lost consciousness.
Pure instinct.
Look at you.
We asked 100 men.
You're naked in the woods.
Someone walks by.
What do you cover yourself with?
You said a leaf.
Survey said.
Right there, we knew we had a shot.
50 out the gate.
Yep.
It's a big leaf.
Leaf?
It's a big leaf, he says.
And good specification.
It's a big leaf.
Big leaf.
We need 94 points.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how nice are your neighbors?
You said, about a 4.
Survey said, one answer was 10.
10.
I'm from New York.
Who likes their name was African?
For real.
For real.
For real, bro.
For real.
Name the greatest breakfast food ever created.
You said,
bacon.
Survey said
Number one answer 23
What would Homer Simpson do?
What would Homer Simpson do?
We need 71.
Number one answer 23 is very low.
Name someone you should never call when you're drunk.
You said, don't ever call your mom.
Survey said, the number one answer was your ex.
Thank you, John Legend.
I love that.
I love that so much.
Name a coin.
Thank you, John Luget.
To make a wish, you said
The penny.
Man of the people.
Survey said.
Oh, my God.
Why?
My God.
Pablo's little, like, what was that?
That was a seawawk.
Tell me what happened.
No, but before that, Palms out,
he was Russell Crow in Gladiator.
Are you not entertained?
That is the most confident
Pablo has ever been.
to me, Steve Harvey and the feud
and the adoring mess
is out there. I am the greatest thing
you have ever seen.
Who was it that compared you to Peter Weber?
Who do you think you are? I am.
Yes.
I did not remember
reacting like that, obviously.
When I watched it back, I was like
it kind of looks like I'm waiting for
Steve Harvey to catch me. Like I wanted
to, you know, jump into his arms.
He did not. He turned away.
Yeah.
But what was cut down, Gojo, you were there.
In my mind, we celebrated for like 30 minutes.
Weren't you on the ground for a little while?
So I collapsed onto the ground and started doing like the Homer Simpson spinning around on his back thing.
Why?
Because I was just feeling all of the feelings I had never allowed myself to feel before.
Crazy feeling to feel on the television set.
My feeling was, I think this is what Tom Brady must feel like.
And that's what he's always doing.
spinning around on his back.
Above me, I looked up.
This is not a joke.
It was cut from the episode.
I looked up almost as if on an operating table post-surgery.
And there was Chrissy Teigen, like with fake defibrillators on my chest, like getting
into the routine of me, like being on the floor, like comatose.
All of that got cut.
Wow.
I wonder why.
Yeah, I feel like it wasn't budgeted in the time allotted.
Can we get it, though?
Can we get?
Can we ask the feud people to get that?
that for us.
We need the mean of footage.
That's right.
We also need the you spinning on the ground like a potato bug.
The PTFO investigation is forthcoming.
Yes.
Please find out.
After the question about being nude in the woods, you said a leaf and then you went
to a big leaf.
You wanted to point that out.
And you had another joke in the holster that Steve Harvey started to talk over.
Where were you going with the big leaf?
Good question.
The banana leaf.
Where were you headed?
I think I think I was going towards banana leaf,
but I was going to make it even more obviously a penis.
I think we got it.
When you said leaf, I think everybody went,
and so it's a good thing that you clarified.
It was the number one answer to be fair.
A banana leaf is enormous, by the way.
We're going to put up a photo of a banana leaf on the show.
Definitely do that. Definitely do that.
I mean, it's just one of the biggest leaves.
Sure.
Yeah, definitely Google Pablo's banana leaf.
Yeah, I was like billions of, billions of Asian people want me to yell banana leaf just to clarify.
See, I would have said a bush and that would have gotten me in my own type of trouble, you know?
You did it, Pablo.
Yes, yes.
You did it.
I didn't realize when I showed up that day that I would become the highest second contestant in the history of celebrity family feud.
But that's what it was.
was like. It made me think of great
game show contestants, like Katie Nolan, of course.
Yes, of course. The trilogy we chronicled
on PTFO at length in this way.
Here we go. Here we go. And also, Mike Oleg Jr., and also
Dan Levitart. Have you seen this? Have you seen this? Gojoin.
Yes, I have and I love this. No.
We have with us here on our very stage here in Orlando,
the Hurricanes of Miami of Florida.
Auto racing now for both schools.
In 1904, driving one of his own cars.
This American drove one mile in under 40 seconds.
That was an average speed of 91 miles an hour.
Name that American auto manufacturer.
Miami, Dan.
Henry Ford, that is correct.
Let's meet the players.
I'm Dan Levitard.
I'm a 19-year-old sophomore majoring in news editorial journalism and politics.
I'm from Miramar, Florida.
All right. Hurricanes, we're glad to have you.
In the 1972 Summer Olympic Games took place in what city?
Oklahoma Camp.
Munich.
Munich is right.
Which Boston Red Sox pitcher threw the most shutouts in 1987.
Miami time.
Roger.
Oklahoma.
All right.
That wraps up our 100 second round.
And Oklahoma is the champion.
Dan's two-handed buzzer technique.
I was just going to say you can learn so much about someone in this game.
based on how they caressed the buzzer?
And Dan just fully...
What made you switch from fully enveloping it
in your closed hands
to then offering that little sliver of it later on?
I was leaking confidence throughout that.
The part that Pablo has not revealed
is that a couple of haunting things here.
First, Cam from Oklahoma is someone who still haunts me
35 years later because he kicked our ass.
But the answer that you saw that I got correctly, Ford,
was my only correct answer the entire time,
and the entire experience was so embarrassing
that 30 years later, my brother would leave answering machine messages
that would simply say Ford, and he'd hang up.
Oh, my God.
Because it was the only thing I got right the entire time I was on there
was the single word Ford.
19 is crazy.
I would have said 23.
19.
When was this?
You're a fully grown man.
Where was this?
I'm going to go ahead and guess that this was 1987, 87.
The late 1900s.
Oh, God.
Yes.
This was in Orlando.
It was boardwalk and baseball somewhere near Disney World.
And I will say that that leisure suit was the only suit that I owned.
And it, too, was about 19 years old.
I loved how Mina Kimes you were in not being able to hide your
exasperation as you miss on the buzzer and just give this brief flash of anger before quelling
all these feelings again?
I was too slow.
That's what kept happening to me.
It's why I tell you, I'm not joking when I say it was legitimately thrilling to have
you guys conquer those game shows.
Katie, the Brain Game Show and Pablo with like just an amazing comeback.
The Relatability Game Show.
Me.
Me.
Yeah.
This feels like the make-a-wish thing you said to me.
When I did Jeopardy, Pablo said,
I can't shake the feeling.
This feels like a make-a-wish type of situation.
And I was like, thanks, buddy.
It was a compliment.
Thanks, buddy.
What is the main color in camouflage?
Isn't that?
Pablo went all the way from being dissed for going to Harvard
to answering with the penny.
Yes.
I went all the way from being dissed to putting it on.
Oh, God.
I wish I didn't make eye.
He said diss. He said dist.
With a D with a D.
No.
Stop saying more things.
This has been Pablo Torre finds out.
A metal arc media production.
And I'll talk to you next time.
