We've Been Nominated for Three Emmys

Back in 2023, when our staff was still imagining what PTFO could even be, we kept returning to the idea of a podcast that is also a magazine that is also an independent newsroom that is also a YouTube channel that is also a TV show.

The problem: that show had never existed. (And definitely not three times a week.)

But here in 2026, I could not be prouder of what our team has become.

Last month, the Podcast Academy awarded us Podcaster of the Year and Best Sports Podcast. We are thrilled to be a finalist for a National Magazine Award in May (alongside institutions like NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and Spotify). And the latest update, from the world of television, is especially gratifying:

I did not know that it was possible to be two of the four finalists in the Outstanding Sports Journalism category.

It’s a surreal honor.

And it is really cool to see an independent startup competing — as intended — with shows produced by ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery, Fox, and Amazon:

There is an alternate timeline, somewhere, in which we made a show with a safer concept. I can imagine that show not requiring a whole team of people who are constantly working their asses off to push the boundaries of what we can get away with in this business.

I am extremely lucky that we imagined this one, instead, together.

Thanks for joining us,

Pablo

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