Chasing The Gambling Dream: Jim Monos, NBA Top Shot and English Accents

The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Sports, Fantasy Sports, News, Sports News, Football

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Chad and Simon welcome guest Jim Monos to the show. The former Buffalo Bills Director of Player Personnel spent 17 years in NFL front offices, and discusses his pursuit of a dream career in sports betting. He describes how his background in player evaluation does (and does NOT) factor into his handicapping. Later, the guys welcome on Darren Rovell to talk about NBA Top Shot, currently the hottest digital asset in the world of sports asset speculation. Is this a nascent market you should invest in... or a bubble waiting to burst? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the favorites, the podcast from the Action Network.
0:12.8	I am Chad Millman, and listen folks, the betting world is a buzz right now.
0:20.6	You'd think after the NFL CNNs, things would calm down a little bit, but it has not
0:25.9	the universe of speculation and risk and investment is spinning at a Tasmanian devil pace,
0:34.4	not just memorabilia, not just trading cards.
0:37.4	A lot of professional bettors are at the center of this story.
0:41.4	We're going to talk about it in a little bit.
0:43.9	Dan Revelle is going to come in.
0:44.9	He's going to tell us about a company that has done more than $63 million in sales in
0:49.7	the past 30 days selling digital highlights.
0:54.3	It's called Top Shot.
0:55.3	We're going to talk a lot about it.
0:57.0	It is the only thing that's being discussed in Action Network Slack channels right now.
1:01.7	Everybody is jumping into the Top Shot pool.
1:04.1	But first might be FF Simon Hunter.
1:07.5	He's back.
1:08.5	And now you're just joining us because you love us, even though NFL season is over.
1:14.7	Since you're English, I'll give you this.
1:17.4	Hello, Simon.
1:18.8	Hello, Chad.
1:19.8	Yeah, man.
1:20.8	Yeah, man, it might be the off season, buddy, but there's so much movement around QB movement.
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