Behind the Scenes of Pablo's History-Making "Family Feud" Adventure

Summary

Podcast Summary: Behind the Scenes of Pablo's History-Making "Family Feud" Adventure

Podcast: Pablo Torre Finds Out
Host: Pablo Torre, with Dan Le Batard, Mike Golic Jr. ("GoJo"), Katie Nolan
Date: September 19, 2024
Episode Theme: A comedic, in-depth recounting of Pablo Torre’s appearance (with friends) on Celebrity Family Feud, exploring the chaos, strategy, cultural mishaps, and behind-the-scenes drama of competing on a game show as a self-proclaimed group of “nerds”.

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Overview

In this episode, Pablo Torre gathers friends Dan Le Batard, Katie Nolan, and Mike Golic Jr. to relive his “surreal” and chaotic experience taping Celebrity Family Feud. The group dives into everything from casting politics and on-set hijinks to arcane Feud strategies, Asian American in-jokes, and one of the wildest comebacks in Fast Money history. Reflecting their on-air personalities, the conversation zigs from heartfelt self-satire to genuine elation—peppered with sharp, memorable banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Guests and the Setting

• Pablo watches his own Feud episode alone:
  • “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 Le Batard that a narcissist has ever been.” (00:43, Pablo)
• GoJo (Mike Golic Jr): Provided “golden retriever energy” and “emotional support” in the audience, reveling in seeing Steve Harvey in person.

2. The Surreal World of Family Feud

• Steve Harvey’s Energy:
  • “Nothing has felt more like climbing into a television than encountering Steve Harvey in person. He is a surreal entity.” (02:35, Pablo)
  • Smells like “money sprayed with cologne.” (02:45, Pablo)
• The Stage Vibes:
  • Katie: “It looked like a level from a Batman video game...enormous, gray, bleak. But in the middle...gleaming lights in this soundstage in Culver City.” (03:17, Katie)

3. Team Dynamic & Casting Chaos

• Chang’s “Nerd Team” Construction:
  • “I wanted, like, Gronk. I felt like we needed one token white guy...But instead, Chang assembled a team of, like, nerds to play Family Feud.” (05:20, Pablo)
• Controversy Over Team Name:
  • The team wanted “Team Asia,” but nervous (white) producers rejected it:
    • “I truly wish you guys could have seen the old white producers sweating...No, we want to be Team Asia...abject horror.” (08:28, GoJo)
    • “It would have just said Asia, which I think would not be good.” (09:05, Katie)
  • Dan quips: “Can I tell them they can’t be Asian?” (09:29, Dan)
  • Broader takeaway: Network discomfort reveals lack of diversity at ABC corporate (09:34–09:40).

4. Feud Strategy: Too Smart for the Show?

• Katie’s Insider Pass/Play Strategy:
  • “If there are seven or more [answers], statistically, to get all those right is so unlikely...sometimes it’s not a bad strategy to pass.” (10:46–11:14, Katie)
  • Feud is about “thinking like the average American,” not cleverness:
    • “This game is average American. You’re supposed to think: What is some dummy that’s answering this poll gonna say?” (14:01, Katie)
  • “We are very slow on the buzzer,” Pablo admits—leads to missed steals and points (13:54).

5. Cultural Commentary & Self-Deprecation

• Pressure of Representation:
  • “I could feel the billions upon billions of people on the planet pressuring me…” (18:55, Pablo)
  • Mina Kimes most sensitive to group’s “humiliations” (16:35).
• Game Show Alienation:
  • “When we started losing, I pivoted to: ‘This game is dumb and I hate it. It’s for idiots’ so quickly.” (21:49, Mina Kimes, via tape)

6. The Gameplay - Stumbles, Blunders, and Comeback

• Sample Questions & Team Responses (with notable reactions):
  • “Name something a man might say is actually an upside to being in jail.”
    • Top answer: “No wife / family.”
    • “The carceral state number one thing about it: No wife.” (12:45, Pablo)
  • “Name something sexy you’d never want to see your mother wearing.”
    • Nighty, lingerie, “teddy” (John Legend’s answer: “Crooned, as if sung.”) (14:55, Katie)
  • “What kitchen gadget would you compare your lovemaking to?”
    • Blender, potato masher, microwave oven.
    • Pablo’s answer: “I’m going to compare it to a blender.” Steve Harvey: “Putting it on you!” (19:11–19:28, Steve Harvey/Pablo)
    • “That is a LinkedIn endorsement. Now on my profile: Steve Harvey, ‘puts it on you.’” (19:39, Pablo)
  • Pressure for team captain, David Chang, to participate in Fast Money (against his will) (32:19–33:19)

7. The Most Awkward Tiebreaker in Feud History

• Both teams fail to reach 300 points, leading to “sudden death.”
  • “This is how bad this game has been going. If it's there or not, we gonna play sudden death, because we don't have enough points to reach 300.” (26:31, Steve Harvey)
  • “Name a color used in camouflage.”
    • Chris Ying finally nails it with “green”—an “insultingly easy” question. (29:37, Pablo)
  • "This feels like Celebrity Jeopardy SNL. They're trying to help toddlers win the game that they're bad at.” (30:53, Katie)

8. Fast Money Heroics: Pablo Makes Game Show History

• Pablo and David Chang go for Fast Money, after team drama over who would represent.
• David’s answers: Branches, 2 (neighbor rating), burrito (breakfast food), police (who not to call drunk), quarter (in the fountain).
• Pablo’s answers (with Steve’s encouragement):
  • Leaf, 4, bacon, mom, penny
  • Steve Harvey pep talk: “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!” (38:20, Steve Harvey)
  • Pablo racks up the points in a rapid-fire Will Ferrell-in-Old-School manner.
  • Victory reactions: Pablo “seawalks” triumphantly, collapses, spins on his back (“the Homer Simpson thing”), Chrissy Teigen mimics shocking him with defibrillators (43:13–43:34, Pablo)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I wanted to, you know, jump into his [Steve Harvey’s] arms. He did not; he turned away.” (42:55, Pablo)
• Dan Le Batard (about his own college game show loss): “Thirty years later, my brother would leave answering machine messages that would simply say ‘Ford,’ and he'd hang up because it was the only thing I got right the entire time.” (48:10, Dan)
• “This is 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.’” (49:17, Katie)
• “I went all the way from being dissed to putting it on you.” (49:39, Pablo)
• Steve Harvey (to Pablo): “You can make history as the highest second contestant ever in the history of Celebrity Family Feud.” (38:20)
• Katie, as election denier for Feud answers: “The fact that fork isn’t on there is crazy. You had very frustrating questions.” (24:28)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |------------|------------------------------------------------------| | 00:33 | Pablo introduces his solo watch-party | | 01:16 | Pablo confesses his terror entering the taping | | 02:35 | Steve Harvey in person: “surreal entity” | | 05:20 | Pablo explains “Team Chang” and nerd lineup | | 08:28 | “Team Asia” and the producers’ panic | | 10:01 | Katie’s Feud strategy and Pablo’s lack of prep | | 12:45 | “No wife—carceral state number one upside” | | 14:01 | Differentiating smart thinking vs. Feud thinking | | 19:11 | Pablo as a “blender”—“putting it on you” | | 26:31 | Sudden death: “You didn’t get to 300” | | 29:37 | “Name a color used in camouflage”—sudden death Q | | 31:12 | Fast Money and all-time comeback setup | | 38:20 | Steve’s historic pep talk to Pablo | | 42:25 | Celebration and “Homer Simpson spin” | | 48:10 | Dan’s “Ford” story from his own game show failure |

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Tone, Style & Final Impressions

• The show is a blend of sharp inside-joking, “journalism-adjacent” storytelling, and group therapy for public humility.
• Pablo toggles between humble and absurdly self-aware, bringing listeners deep into the anxiety and chaos of game show competition.
• The group’s chemistry is crackling—full of gentle roastings and genuine affection.
• The episode is as much about representation, cultural gaffes, and the unreality of TV as it is about the Feud itself.
• There is catharsis, euphoria, and, ultimately, legacy: “the highest second contestant in Celebrity Family Feud history.”

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For New Listeners

Missed the episode? This is essential PTFO: a laugh-out-loud, self-deprecating, and surprisingly honest window into the weird, wild mechanics of game show TV—from a group uniquely primed to dissect, mock, and celebrate it all at once.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre. And today we're gonna find out what this sound is.

[B]

Oh, my God. Woke over here. Analytics over there. Can we just play the feud.

[A]

Right after this ad?

[C]

You're listening to Giraffe Kings.

[A]

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 LeBatard that a narcissist has ever been.

[B]

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.

[A]

It was so scary. Can I just say that up front, like, 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. 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 Golik Jr. Just. Just being himself. And it helped me so much.

[B]

Good teammate.

[D]

I had to do something to at least offer any bit of value there because this was the hardest coattail riding I had done in quite some time. Just drafting off Mina and Pablo's popularity and 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 me have made that possible. So the least I could do was bring golden retriever energy to the audience.

[C]

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.

[A]

Nothing has felt more like climbing into a television than encountering Steve Harvey in person. He is a surreal entity.

[B]

What'd he smell like? What'd he smell like? Cologne. Cologne.

[A]

He smelled like money.

[C]

That's dirty smelling. That smells disgusting. Money smells gross.

[A]

It smelled like money sprayed with cologne.

[C]

Ah, okay.

[A]

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 were these gleaming lights in this soundstage in Culver City. And inside of that soundstage, the show began.

[B]

It's time for Celebrity Family Feud from Freeforms.

[C]

So awkward at this part. I'm obsessed with how awkward you are.

[A]

Not the coolest I've ever looked.

[C]

No. The way you just look at other people.

[B]

They're taking on Chrissy's co star, chef David Chang.

[C]

Looking at Mina looking around. Why don't they put you in order? Oh, starch.

[B]

Then dry cleaning.

[D]

Having to do that opposite John Legend, who is so effortlessly cool, and Steve.

[B]

Harvey, who's so effortless.

[A]

Steve Harvey walks out there in a suit that I have never seen before.

[C]

It's just like no one's ever worn this color combination.

[A]

That's all one gleaming, shimmering color that smells like, again, pheromones.

[C]

Sateen, I think, is what it's called. I have no idea.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Fancy. Very.

[D]

You looked incredibly like a Bond villain.

[C]

He does.

[A]

And he, he immediately was, like, pointing to the real celebrities, like John Legend. It's like, that's his guy.

[E]

Ladies and gentlemen, my dog, the legend. John Legend, 12 time Grammy Award winner and Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winner.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

And is currently on the Voice. How you been, man?

[A]

Very good. I'm looking to add Family Feud winner to my trophy list.

[E]

You know what?

[A]

Yeah, immediately, by the way, they did start to, like, talk some shit.

[C]

Oh. But we're excited and we're ready.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

We've got some Harvard grads over there. Is that talking?

[A]

I mean, you graduated from Harvard. That's right.

[B]

You do not know what it is like to be buried and talk. If you think that is talking.

[A]

Well, this is what became very obvious to us immediately. So David Chang had assembled, he casted this team of people who went to, like, fancy schools. So the team, I mean, look, I, I, 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.

[E]

Let's go meet the Chang team. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for David Chang. Everybod. 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 we west, everybody Pro golfer, five LPGA tour wins. I'm a big fan of yours. Ladies and gentlemen. Give it up for mena kind analysts 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 but not least, Chris Ying, podcaster and co host of Dinner Time Live. How you doing man? I'm excellent.

[A]

The handshake was a big moment, vigorous.

[C]

What was? What prompted that? Why did he want that?

[A]

I don't know. No one else got their handshake displayed like that on our team.

[C]

Oh, did you pull his hand over to you?

[A]

It's like I sort of wanted him to, to, to do.

[D]

It was like that's the most alpha.

[B]

Male boot camp endorsed handshake.

[A]

I've seen a presidential debate before. I need to send an electric sort of worm jolt into the guy I'm. I'm shaking hands with.

[B]

Any particular reason I didn't hear Meadowlark said by Steve Harvey. Instead of all the other things that were said about Pablo Torre, you will.

[A]

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 at all times.

[C]

And I still don't have a key card for. I still have to knock on the door.

[A]

Katie does sort of like paw, like, like a cat.

[C]

I need a fob.

[D]

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 product very uncomfortable with your guys attempt at name changing.

[A]

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, 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, 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.

[C]

I was gonna say, you're not doing yourself any favors with you and Mina aren't related. Are related rum.

[A]

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 the white man's face. His response to being provided the counter possibility of Team Asia was that of abject horror.

[D]

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.

[A]

And would have looked like Family Feud had named this team of Asian people Team Asia.

[C]

It also doesn't say team it right? I think it just says Chang.

[A]

Oh, it would have just said.

[C]

It would have just said Asia, which I think would not be good.

[D]

They went back and, like, talked to the bigger boss, like, three times. Coming back after, like, he called really not do this.

[A]

He called his own manager and was like, I need to call the manager.

[B]

Can you guys get corporate? I'm incredibly white. I'm in. I'm in deep. I'm in deep water here.

[A]

Can I tell them they can't be Asian?

[B]

They can't be.

[D]

This is where we learned that ABC desperately needs more diversity and their corporate hiring.

[B]

Get your woke out of my Family Feud. Just get it out of here. Okay. Get to the fun, please.

[A]

So speaking of the fun, Katie and I had dinner that week in la. You were there randomly, and Katie provided me a strategy that I shouldn't have. I brought it to the team. I brought the strategy to the team. Could you explain the strategy?

[C]

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 recently.

[A]

I've never. I've never broken down the all 20.

[C]

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 got to want to. Even if it's the worst answer you've ever heard, you got to hit him with a good answer. Be very encouraging and a good teammate, which 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 too 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?

[A]

Do you kick or receive?

[C]

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, because if there's a Ton of answers on the board.

[A]

Seven or more, right?

[C]

Is that what it was? Did I say that specifically?

[A]

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 those right is so unlikely. And that's the only way you can get the points if you. If you choose to play.

[C]

Exactly.

[A]

And so what if you were to just.

[C]

If you Wait.

[A]

What if you were to tank the.

[C]

Buzzer and 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 is.

[B]

Oh, my God. Woke over here. Analytics over there. Can we just play the few?

[E]

Finish him.

[B]

Hey, take it easy. Take it easy.

[E]

Top seven answers on the board. Name something a man might see, say, is actually an upside to being in jail. When you hit the buzzer, you supposed to say something.

[C]

I'm like, how inappropriate can we be? Right?

[E]

Okay, Michelle.

[C]

No rent.

[E]

No rent. Alone time. Alone time.

[A]

Immediately.

[D]

We're like the woke out of there pretty quickly.

[A]

Dan.

[C]

How can that not be?

[B]

How can that be? No spouse. How can they be.

[C]

I know.

[B]

Men only be wife.

[D]

They're not letting the woke wound your feud, Dan.

[A]

That's right. The carceral state number one thing about it, no wife.

[C]

That's everybody's number one review.

[D]

You.

[A]

You could tell by the way that, like, our plan immediately, like, hypothetically made sense. It's like seven answers on the board, all of 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.

[C]

Ridiculous.

[A]

Number two meals a day.

[C]

Three meals a day.

[A]

Yep. Number three is no rent slash bills. Saw that. Number six is no 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.

[E]

All right, here's your chance. Name something a man might say is actually an upside to being in jail.

[B]

Steve. We're going to go with street cred.

[A]

Good answer.

[C]

Good answer.

[B]

Too good. The answer was too good.

[A]

Yeah. So we're down.

[C]

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 clever.

[A]

Smartest.

[C]

Cleverest answer.

[A]

Yeah, this. This became clear with the next category.

[E]

We got the top seven answers on the board. Name something sexy you'd never want to see your mother wearing.

[C]

Oh, God, I hated this song.

[E]

Whoa.

[C]

Good answer.

[B]

Exceptional answer.

[C]

But not number one.

[B]

I mean, I would assume just lingerie, right?

[C]

A teddy is a wild thing to say, but there it is.

[A]

There it is.

[C]

Also nighty. Nighty doesn't evoke sexy to me. Nighty is like a lot.

[D]

That's the most John Legend answer of all time, though.

[A]

Like, of course he would say, 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. We after gets the answer right. Look back at us being like, are we gonna. Are we gonna pass?

[C]

Oh, that's funny.

[A]

And then of course, the choice is taken from our hands because John Legend, thank God, gets it right with Teddy. But again, Katie, it's seven answers.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

And of course they don't get all seven because getting all seven is statistically almost impossible. It turns out we got two strikes.

[E]

We got to be careful.

[C]

Chain team can steal sheer or see through clothing.

[E]

Sheer or see through clothing.

[C]

Good answer, Lana. Thank you. Thank you.

[E]

All right, here we go. Name something sexy you'd never want to see your mother wearing. Birthday suit. Nothing. Her birthday suit.

[A]

Bikini bra, mini skirt. Sexy maid costume.

[C]

What?

[B]

Stripper, heels, Cheerleader outfit. Sexy maid.

[A]

But not a school girl specific fetish.

[C]

You can see your mom in a school girl.

[B]

Outfit.

[A]

We're down 141 points to zero.

[C]

Crazy.

[A]

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.

[C]

That's not really funny.

[A]

You can come back. It's possible to win the game.

[B]

Jim Valvano speech during Family Feud because you were down 141 to nothing. Don't ever give up.

[A]

We did not believe in miracles. We were contemplating increasingly that this was going to be just a series of viral humans humiliations. Nobody more concerned about this, by the way, than our dear friend Mina comes.

[E]

Welcome back, celebrity Family Feud. The legend team got 141. Chain team not on the board. Give me Jen. Give me Mina.

[C]

Come on.

[B]

At this point, you feel like you're embarrassing your Asian brethren, right? You feel it?

[C]

No handshake. Oh, wow.

[E]

Nothing cold.

[C]

Come back starts here. Come back starts here.

[E]

Yeah. Point vase. Top seven answers on the board again.

[C]

Crazy.

[E]

What kitchen gadget would you compare your love making to a wooden spatula?

[C]

What? What?

[E]

All right, now.

[C]

And she goes, I don't cook.

[E]

Get a splinter in it.

[D]

Underrated line of the show. Get a splinter.

[C]

I'm gonna go with nothing.

[E]

Oven.

[C]

Hey. Oh, what's they get?

[A]

What are they gonna do?

[E]

We're gonna play.

[A]

We Mina unilaterally was like, we're not getting skunked like this. We're receiving. Yeah, we're playing.

[C]

Yeah. The right call.

[A]

The stage manager also, by the way.

[D]

Absolutely the right call. You didn't come out here to lay up.

[C]

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 on the board. We finally got it. No, thanks, you guys. Take this one.

[B]

Wait a minute.

[A]

That was your third Sixers season that they tanked in. It was like, guys, really? Again?

[B]

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 4th and short. And then someone would fail on 4th and short, and people would yell at me, you idiot.

[C]

You can't go for it.

[B]

She just made the correct argument and in fact taught me something about feud strategy I did not know by saying you got to 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.

[D]

That is tough.

[A]

Billions. I could feel the billions upon billions of people on the planet pressuring me as this happened.

[B]

Come on.

[E]

Here we go. Come on, Pablo. Let's go, baby. What kitchen gadget would you compare your love making to, Steve?

[C]

Huh?

[A]

I'm going to compare it to a blender.

[E]

A blender.

[B]

Which is what I said at home.

[E]

Putting it on you.

[C]

Big. Big.

[D]

We should have known right after that that Pablo was destined for great things on this show.

[A]

Big putting it on you.

[B]

It's Steve Harvey. Just saying that Pablo in the bedroom is putting it on you. Because it's not a way I've ever.

[C]

Looked at Pablo before or blenders.

[A]

That is a LinkedIn endorsement. Now on my profile, Steve Harvey Harvey.

[C]

Said putting it on you.

[A]

He puts it on you.

[C]

Amazing.

[A]

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.

[C]

Yeah, true.

[E]

Chris, what kitchen Gadget will you compare your love making to?

[D]

My love making is most similar to A potato masher.

[C]

Mom specific.

[A]

Good answer.

[D]

See again, 2. Inside baseball.

[C]

Comparable to a. I do love the way.

[E]

David, what kitchen gadget would you compare your love making to?

[C]

You gotta get this one, dude. Come on.

[E]

Be quick like a microwave oven.

[C]

A microwave oven.

[E]

Cause it's quick like a microwave oven.

[A]

On brand.

[C]

On brand, too.

[E]

Plus 30 microwave.

[B]

The idea that Michelle, we would be suffering this indignity, and I know her to be less competitive on that panel than Mina Kimes, who right now know, like, lava is spewing from her ears because she's embarrassing herself nationally and internationally.

[A]

She was.

[D]

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.

[C]

She held her gun to his head. She was like, you better get this right.

[A]

You gotta get this common, dude. This is slash mother.

[C]

Also, the two. The. The tone of it was like, we gotta get this.

[A]

Like, he's increasingly aggro y. Yeah.

[D]

She was the audience yelling at him at home from right next to him. That was supposed to be the supportive teammate.

[A]

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 answers correct when the questions and.

[C]

The answers started coming in, and we saw how dumb they're dumb. This is 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.

[A]

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. 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.

[E]

Michelle, we got two strikes. The Legend team can steal air fryer. And air fryer, it don't really fry. It just makes you think it's fried air fryer.

[A]

And so, of course, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, they smell blood.

[E]

Chrissy, darling, what kitchen gadget would you compare your love making to?

[C]

I'm gonna go with slow cooker. Slow cooker.

[D]

John Legend literally crooning did he unbutton another button during that answer?

[C]

I think he did. Crazy. That's four hours. You could cook something on slow cookers. Four hours. That's insane. I'd be tapping way out.

[B]

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.

[D]

Like, she did not actually care about the. The actual ability of that answer to be right as much as it was to just remind people, hey, I'm a.

[C]

Model and he's a crooner, and we bang quite a bit for quite a long time.

[D]

Everything you guys think, it's all true.

[C]

The flavor is being stewed into the meat slowly throughout the day.

[B]

And you thought Pablo put it on you.

[A]

For the record here, the answers were in order from 1 to 7. Blender, slash mixer, spoon, slash ladle, hot oven, cork opener, can opener, nuts, baster, whisk, slash beater.

[C]

Also, the fact that fork isn't on there is crazy. It sounds like nobody said fork just so. It was very frustrating. You had very frustrating questions.

[A]

I like that. Katie, is the election denier on the show? Like, this is. This is. Luckily, though, what we stole was 98 points.

[C]

Nice.

[A]

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 buzzer.

[E]

Give me Mike. Give me Pablo. 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.

[E]

A car.

[C]

What is stopping you from buying a car when you have a wife?

[B]

But Pablo, Pablo, real quick. So far, no one has actually won this game by doing it correctly.

[E]

Correct.

[B]

The only winners there are here are points. Points given because the other people have failed.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

So just so we can speed through this part, nobody gets anything right on that side. And so the opportunity to steal again, this, 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.

[E]

Come on out the huddle. Cause 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 gonna play such a. Because we don't have enough points to reach 300.

[B]

Man, we did it.

[C]

We did it.

[E]

So the pressure's all off, but let's just see anyway. All right, we ask 100 married men, if you woke up a single man tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd buy?

[B]

Motorcycle, Steve.

[A]

Good answer.

[E]

A motorcycle.

[C]

Not good enough.

[B]

These answers that you guys are giving are just clearly too good.

[A]

This was Mina's thought, which you can hear her think as we hear what the answers turned out to be.

[C]

So stupid. Oh, no.

[A]

Mina is at that moment reading her own mentions from the future.

[C]

Oh, my God. She so is. She's doing the mental math of how this is gonna go for her.

[A]

And by the way, like, 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.

[B]

Listen, Chris Ying is well known to choke under pressure at ordering in a restaurant, okay? He orders the most ridiculous things. Cause he's so nervous that the waiter is waiting too long for an answer. That I was like, man, this. We won't even need Chris at the end. I'll have two Cobb salads.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

So that's why I was like, chris is going to be great. Just don't put him in a high pressure situation.

[A]

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.

[C]

Right?

[A]

Unless.

[C]

Unless.

[A]

Unless.

[C]

Unless he sucks so bad.

[A]

An unprecedented sudden death sub 300 buzz off, in which suddenly the fifth starting your rotation has to go up with everything on the line and do this.

[E]

Well, nobody reached 300 points, so we gonna play sudden death.

[B]

I've never seen that before.

[D]

In his most excited game show host voice, the most disappointed he's ever been.

[C]

It's. I've seen it in real, but I've never seen it in slippery. Oh, my God.

[E]

For this survey, we are 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.

[A]

So just to pause this here, 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. Buzzing and say it.

[B]

Choker.

[E]

Camouflage.

[A]

Green.

[E]

Green.

[C]

Look at him. Look at him.

[D]

Chris Yang 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 playing.

[B]

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.

[C]

It's like Celebrity Jeopardy. Snl.

[B]

They're trying to help toddlers win the game that they're bad at.

[C]

What noise does a doggy make?

[A]

They're like, the runtime of this show does not accommodate an extra round. So let's make sure this one, we won the game 98 to 285.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

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 your charity. This is for charity. Let's also remember that. I guess that's important. They win all the money if you can crack 200 points.

[B]

That question, by the way, was also charity, to be clear.

[E]

Hey, I need two of you. I got David and Pablo. Oh, David. Hey, thanks. We'll be right back. Fast Money right after this.

[A]

Jojo, explain what you saw.

[D]

Originally you guys had selected you and Mina to represent the team up there.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

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.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Dan, there is a take of this where me and Mina are standing on either side of Steve Harvey about to do Fast Money.

[C]

I would love to see her face. I want to see Pablo.

[B]

You gotta get that. You gotta call the Feud and you gotta get. You've gotta get them to give you the audio that hasn't been released. You have to.

[A]

It gets better because me and Mina are locked in. Obviously Chang didn't want to do it.

[C]

Right.

[A]

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.

[C]

You guys should have argued back. We're all so famous. Okay.

[A]

Have you ever watched. Yeah. Afternoon sports television at a sports bar?

[C]

We're very famous to a. A very niche group.

[A]

That's right. This was the third take, by the way. So at one point, Steve Harvey says, david, good to see you. Because Chiang was so discombobulated.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

When he. 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.

[C]

Why?

[A]

Because he didn't know what was happening.

[B]

And doesn't want to do it. Like, clearly doesn't. He's being badgered 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.

[C]

Oh, no.

[A]

So after the successful take three, I get sent backstage. So I go second. So immediately we're like, I should probably go last.

[C]

You know, so he's. So there's not so much pressure on him.

[A]

He doesn't pass out like, trying to. Trying to help Chang. They send me backstage and I have big headphones on.

[C]

Yeah. Because they ask the same five questions exactly. And you cannot give the same answer as each other.

[A]

And so I have never. Of course, I've never seen the backstage of Family Feud. It is. 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.

[C]

Huh? Gin Blossoms.

[A]

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.

[C]

Huh.

[A]

And so he had that monitor at like a 1 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 as he close my eyes as he is watching this as hey, Jealousy in 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.

[E]

Was this and now it's time to play. All right, you ready? Let's go. 20 seconds on the clock, please. We asked 100 men. You're naked in the woods. Someone walks by. What do you cover yourself with?

[B]

Branches.

[E]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how nice are your neighbors?

[B]

2.

[E]

Name the greatest breakfast food ever created.

[B]

Burrito.

[E]

Name someone you should never call when you're drunk.

[A]

Police.

[E]

Name a coin you throw into a fountain to make a wish. Porter. All right, let's go. We asked one. 100 men. You're naked in the woods. Someone walks by. What do you cover yourself with? You said some branches. Survey said, on a scale of 1 to 10, how nice are your neighbors? You said 2. Survey 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.

[C]

It'S so funny. Hello.

[E]

Going to a fountain to make a wish. You said, quarter. Survey said.

[A]

Just hello, it's me.

[C]

So funny.

[A]

Being roasted by.

[C]

Don't call the cops. Since a you're hammered. I thought it was a better answer than eight.

[A]

GoJo, what was the mood in the room?

[D]

Extremely down. Like it had been the entire time. Like, 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 were the last lifeline for this team. And I am so fascinated to get a peek under the hood, Pablo, 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.

[A]

I walked out. Okay. Headphones off. Hey, jealousy is over. I walk out, I immediately notice a. A almost like depressive Mina Kimes.

[C]

Yeah, she was stone faced.

[A]

And. And the mood in the room is a mixture of things that is confusing to me and only making me more and more like a dog.

[C]

But you. And like a puppy they put in a room. And he's like, what?

[A]

Right?

[C]

There's a lot of sensory overload.

[A]

I. I may have started peeing down my leg.

[E]

Well, Pablo.

[A]

Yeah, Steve.

[E]

It's gonna take a massive effort.

[A]

Okay?

[E]

He didn't do bad.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[E]

He got 54.

[A]

Okay. Yeah, that's all right.

[E]

Yeah, partner.

[C]

All right. You got no. Pablo.

[E]

I believe in you, Pablo. Now listen to me. Listen to me. All right, 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. Gonna be a little bit tougher. We're gonna give you 25 seconds.

[C]

How high were you? Actually?

[A]

I was. I was residually stoned. It was in my bloodstream.

[C]

It was clearly, like, meant to say something else, but the way he said that in your face just went.

[A]

It was one of those things where.

[C]

I'm like, does he know?

[A]

Does Steve Harvey know?

[C]

Does he know? Pretty high right now.

[A]

Does Steve Harvey expect me to not look into the camera and break the fourth wall and acknowledge what was just said?

[C]

You seemed not. Not that nervous to me there. So we're very like, okay, that's doable. The little point, that confidence.

[A]

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.

[D]

As the drug's wearing off, opportunity has arrived.

[A]

Yeah, I will say I did. From there. Mostly blackout.

[E]

You ready?

[A]

I'm ready, Steve.

[E]

All right, let's remind everybody of David's answers. 25 seconds on the clock, please. Let's go, man.

[A]

All right.

[E]

We asked 100 men. You're naked in the woods. Someone walks by. What do you cover yourself with?

[A]

A leaf.

[E]

On a scale of 1 to 10, how nice are your neighbors? 4. Name the greatest breakfast food ever created.

[A]

Bacon.

[E]

Name someone you should never call when you're drunk. Your mom names a coin you throw into a fountain to make a wish.

[A]

A penny.

[C]

We got a shot so fast. So fast you were.

[D]

That was Will Ferrell in old school.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

I truly, like, lost consciousness. Pure instinct.

[C]

Look at you.

[E]

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 it.

[D]

Right there. We knew we had a shot. 50 out the gate.

[E]

It's a big leaf. Leaf.

[C]

It's a big leaf, he says. And good specification.

[A]

It's a big leaf. Big leaf.

[E]

We need 94 points on a scale of one to ten. How nice are your neighbors? You said about a four. Survey said the number one answer was ten. Ten.

[A]

I'm from New York.

[E]

For real? For real, bro. For real. Name the greatest breakfast food ever created. You said bacon. Survey said.

[C]

Number one answer. 23.

[A]

What would Homer Simpson do?

[E]

One answer.

[A]

What would Homer Simpson do?

[E]

We need 71.

[C]

Number one answer. 23.

[E]

You should never call when you're drunk. You said don't ever call your mom. Survey said 37.

[C]

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

[E]

The number one answer.

[A]

Come on.

[E]

Was your ex.

[A]

Thank you, John Legend.

[C]

Thank you, John Legend.

[E]

To make a wish. You said the penny.

[C]

Yes. Man of the people.

[E]

Survey said.

[C]

Oh, my God.

[E]

Why?

[C]

It's still exciting. It's still electric.

[E]

My God.

[B]

Pablo's little, like. What was that?

[A]

That was a seawalk.

[B]

It was a sea walk. No, but before that, out, he was Russell Crowe in Gladiator. Are you not entertained? That is the most confident Pablo has ever been. Come to me, Steve Harvey and the Feud and the adoring masses out there. I am the greatest thing you have ever seen.

[D]

Who was it that compared you to Peter Weber? Who do you think you are? I am.

[A]

Yes. I did not remember reacting like that. Obviously.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

When I watched it back, I was like. 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.

[D]

Weren't you on the ground for a little while?

[A]

So I collapsed onto the ground and started doing, like, the Homer Simpson spinning around on his back thing.

[C]

Why?

[A]

Because I was just feeling all of the feelings I had never allowed myself to feel before.

[C]

Crazy feeling to. On a television set.

[A]

My feeling was, I think this is what Tom Brady must feel like.

[C]

And that's what he's always doing, spinning.

[A]

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.

[C]

Wow. I wonder why.

[A]

Yeah, I feel like it wasn't budgeted in the time of it.

[B]

Can we get it, though? Can we get. Can we ask the Feud people to get that for us?

[C]

We need the Mina footage, and then we also need you spinning on the ground like a potato bug.

[A]

The PTFO investigation is forthcoming.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

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 starred. Started to talk over. Where were you going with the big leaf, the banana leaf. Where were you Headed.

[A]

I think. I think I was going towards banana leaf, but I was gonna like, you know, make it even more obviously a penis.

[C]

Yeah, I think that. I think we got it. I think when you said leaf, I think everybody went. And so it's a good thing that you clarified it was the number one answer.

[A]

A banana leaf is enormous, by the way. We're gonna put up a photo of a banana.

[C]

Definitely do that. Definitely do that.

[A]

I mean, it's just one of the biggest leaves.

[C]

Sure.

[D]

Yeah. Definitely Google Pablo's banana leaf.

[A]

Yeah, I was like billions of billions of Asian people want me to yell banana leaf. Just to clarify. Was my.

[C]

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.

[A]

Yes. Yes, you did it.

[E]

Yes.

[A]

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. That's what it was like. It made me think of great game show contestants like Katie Nolan, of course.

[C]

Yes, of course.

[A]

The trilogy we chronicled on ptfo. At length, length, in this way.

[B]

There we go. Here we go.

[A]

And also. And also Michael Jr. And also Dan Lebatar.

[B]

Have you seen this? Have you seen this?

[C]

Go, Jo. I have and I love this.

[D]

No.

[F]

We have with us here on our very stage here in Orlando, the hurricanes of Miami of Florida auto racing. Now for both.

[C]

Amazing.

[F]

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 Ford. Henry Ford. That is correct. Let's meet the players.

[A]

I'm Dan lebatard.

[F]

I'm a 19 year old sophomore majoring.

[A]

In news, editorial journalism and politics.

[B]

I'm from Miramar, Florida.

[F]

All right, Hurricane Gaines, we're glad to have you in. The 1972 Summer Olympic Games took place in what city?

[A]

Oklahoma.

[F]

Camp Munich. Munich is right. Which Boston Red Sox pitcher threw the Most shutouts in 1987? Miami time. All right, that wraps up our 102nd round. And Oklahoma is the champion.

[A]

Dance two handed buzzer technique.

[D]

I was just gonna 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?

[B]

I was leaking confidence throughout that. The part, 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 correctly, Ford was my only correct answer the entire time. And the entire experience was so embarrassing that 30 years later, my. My brother would leave answering machine messages that would simply say Ford, and he'd hang up because it was the only thing I got right. The entire time I was on, there was the single word, Ford.

[C]

19 is crazy. I would have said 2319. When was this? You're a fully grown man. Where was this?

[B]

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that this was 1980. 87. 87.

[C]

The late 1900s.

[A]

Oh, God. Yes.

[B]

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.

[D]

I loved how mean a kaimes 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.

[B]

I was too slow. That's what kept happening to me. It's why I tell you I'm. 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 back the.

[A]

The relatability game show. Me.

[F]

Me.

[C]

Yeah. This is, like. 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. Thanks, buddy.

[B]

What is the main color in camouflage? Isn't that.

[D]

Pablo went all the way from being dissed for going to Harvard to answering with the penny?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

I went all the way from being dissed to putting it on you.

[C]

Oh, God, I wish I didn't make eye contact. You did that.

[D]

He said dis. He said dissed with a.

[A]

With a d. No.

[C]

Stop saying more things.

[A]

This has been Pablo Torre Finds Out a Meadowlark Media production and I'll talk to you next time.