How Matthew Berry made fake football his real job

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Once the domain of the nerdiest of sports fans, these days fantasy football analysis is on primetime TV. Matthew Berry (@MatthewBerryTMR) comments on fantasy football for NBC Sports (and before that, ESPN) and founded the website fantasylife.com. It's the culmination of a career that, for many people, would have already been a fantasy: serving as George Carlin’s assistant and writing for Married with Children. Berry joins Vox’s Peter Kafka to talk about the business of fantasy sports and what makes it different from straight-up betting. Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.0	Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
1:07.3	That is me.
1:08.4	And today we've got a fun, informative chat with NBC's Matthew Berry, who used to be living
1:14.1	the dream in LA.
1:15.1	He was getting paid to write TV shows.
1:18.1	And he ditched all of that for a career in fantasy sports.
1:21.1	And as we talk about in our chat, fantasy sports used to be a super niche thing for the
1:26.3	nerdiest of nerdss and then the internet supercharged
1:29.6	all that and it's something that a lot of people do it's now a real business for a lot of media
1:33.3	companies very profitable i am curious how it's going to coexist with sports betting we talk
1:38.8	about all of that and we'll get into that in a second but first a note we recorded this conversation
1:44.1	right before the NFL
1:45.1	season kicked off, which is why you make at least one outdated reference to Aaron Rogers,
1:49.9	who, sorry Jets fans, turns out would not be a good fantasy player this year. Okay, now here's
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