ESPN Bets on Sports Betting
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🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Cardiff Garcia (host of The New Bazaar) to discuss ESPN’s big new investment in sports betting. They break down the state of a lawsuit over how much UFC fighters get paid. Finally, they talk about the increasing allure of private credit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm Felix Amand of Axios, I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and other places. |
| 0:24.4 | Elizabeth is showing off her amazing tattoos, which we will talk about later in the show. |
| 0:29.8 | We are also joined, and this is extremely exciting, by the one and only Cardiff Garcia. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello! Welcome back Cardiff! Thanks! |
| 0:38.8 | You are always fun to be here. |
| 0:40.8 | Just the perfect Slate Money guest slash co-host, you just do everything. |
| 0:45.8 | Introduce yourself though, for those few Slate Money listeners who are not deeply familiar with your earth. |
| 0:52.8 | Who are you? |
| 0:53.8 | I am the host of the New Bizarre podcast, and I do some other things, but that's the one I would chill for, |
| 0:59.8 | but maybe more importantly for our purposes. |
| 1:02.8 | I am kind of an OG economics blogger, like Felix and a former econ journalist at the Financial Times and NPR in places like that. |
| 1:10.8 | So we are going to talk about Disney, ESPN, Bastille Sports Gambling, all of that kind of stuff. |
| 1:18.8 | That is going to segue elegantly into Cardiff's hobby, which is... |
| 1:23.8 | Face punching? |
| 1:24.8 | Face punching, yeah. |
| 1:26.8 | And the economics thereof, apparently there's billions of dollars in face punching if you structure it correctly. |
| 1:32.8 | Oh yeah. |
| 1:33.8 | We are then going to nerd the fuck out on private credit, because this is Slate Money, and this is what we do. |
| 1:41.8 | But you will have Cardiff to guide you, and so it will be painless. |
| 1:45.8 | We have a Slate Plus segment on WeWork, spider alert, is doing really badly. |
| 1:51.8 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
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