Season 4 EP 29 - Two Guests Join the Pod

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🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The guys are back after a long break with two guests for you. First, Jason Trost -- CEO of Smarkets joins to discuss his betting exchange. Then at 39:47 mark of the pod, Josh Hermsmeyer - Fivethirtyeight comes on to discuss the NFL draft tomorrow.

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0:00.0	On this week's Bet the Process podcast, we have an interview with the founder of a betting trading company, a market, I guess as they say, Smarkets.
0:09.8	We interview Jason Trost, who's the CEO founder.
0:12.9	And then we actually revisit with one of our good friends who knows a lot about the NFL draft, Josh Hermesmeyer, who tells us a little bit about the best surprise pick for number
0:22.8	two and who is likely to go at three. Hint, he has inside information. Okay, maybe he doesn't,
0:29.4	but it's worth listening to anyways. So with that, let's start the process.
0:35.4	Bet, bet, bet, bet the process.
0:38.3	Bet, bet, bet the process.
0:42.3	Welcome to the podcast, bet the process.
0:45.3	It's not the typical cookie cutter nonsense.
0:47.3	If you came just for picks, you're in the wrong place.
0:50.3	Find a town with the narrative to make a strong case.
0:52.3	Instead of blindly assuming a team must be tanking.
0:55.6	We're looking for the edge and messy P-body rankings, crunching all the numbers in a simulator
0:59.7	system that break down the data analytically driven.
1:03.2	Media coverage.
1:04.1	Sports gambling is pathetic.
1:05.8	Welcome to the long-awaited episode of the Bet the Process podcast where Rufus and I, after a fairly long
1:13.7	hiatus, this might be the longest hiatus we've, we've ever had. Rufus has been kind of off
1:19.3	starting a company that sounds like basically he's becoming a tout and maybe the next
1:26.8	Michael Schwimmer.
1:27.8	But who knows?
1:28.8	Who knows what it's really going to be?
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