Slate Money: ESPN Bets on Sports Betting

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🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 48 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. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:12.0	Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:18.5	I'm Felix Hammond of Axios.
0:19.9	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and other places.
0:23.8	Hello.
0:24.5	Elizabeth is showing off her amazing tattoos, which we will talk about later in the show.
0:30.3	We are also joined, and this is extremely exciting, by the one and only Cardiff Garcia.
0:36.4	Hello.
0:36.9	Welcome back, Cardiff.
0:38.3	Thanks.
0:39.3	You are...
0:40.3	Always fun to be here.
0:41.3	Just the perfect Slate Money guest slash co-host.
0:44.3	You just do everything.
0:45.3	Introduce yourself, though, for those few Slate Money listeners who are not deeply familiar with your Earth,
0:51.3	who are you?
0:53.3	So I am the host of the New Bazaar podcast, and I do some other things,
0:58.1	but that's the one I would chill for, but maybe more importantly for our purposes, I am kind of an
1:03.5	OG economics blogger like Felix and a former econ journalist at the Financial Times and NPR and
1:09.2	places like that. So we are going to talk about Disney, ESPN, Barstool Sports, Sports Gambling, all of that kind
1:18.0	of stuff. That is going to segue elegantly into Cardiff's hobby, which is...
1:24.3	Face punching?
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