The Case of the Stolen Dinosaur Bones

EPISODE 227: Nicolas Cage and the Southern District.

PTFO is a mystery box.

Over 227 episodes, we’ve been working our asses off to build a publication whose editorial discretion you trust. Even — especially! — if you know nothing about the story we’re putting front of you… and have not yet asked for anything like it.

This is because it feels obvious to me, as a journalist raised in the lost world of magazines, that the best stories tend to be the ones you cannot predict.

Which is a heresy, and a pretty big risk, in the age of The Algorithm.

But it is also why today’s mystery box contains dinosaur bones.

And Nicolas Cage.

And the Southern District of New York — the same U.S. attorney’s office that sought, at one point, to prosecute Mayor Eric Adams, Diddy, and various figures in and around Trumpworld.

And Mongolia.

And the Babe Ruth of Forfeiture.

And a children’s book.

And the Regis High School debate team.

YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:

Your friend,

Pablo