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After Hours

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In our first-ever After Hours sports episode, we ask why sports teams have become so valuable (is it really just the vanity of billionaire owners), debate the merits of paying amateur athletes, and explore why tennis pros receive such a small fraction of the sport’s overall revenue. Can hedge fund icon Bill Ackman save tennis?

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0:00.0	I would like to tell you about a great new show from Ted called Fixable.
0:11.1	It's hosted by a colleague of mine, Harvard Business School Professor Francis Fry and
0:15.8	her wife, Leadership Coach Anne Morris.
0:19.1	On Fixable, they talk to listeners about workplace issues and give advice what's helped solve
0:24.5	these kinds of problems at some of the world's largest companies.
0:28.8	For friends as an Anne, no problem is too big or too small.
0:33.6	Find Fixable wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:38.8	Hello everyone, this is After Hours, I'm Felix.
0:49.8	I'm Me here.
0:50.8	And I'm Lane Higgins, a sports reporter from the Wall Street Journal.
0:53.4	Welcome Lane.
0:54.4	We're so happy to have you.
0:55.4	Thank you so much for having me.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:57.4	It's a week because sports is a topic across many of the TED podcasts and we're super excited
1:03.8	that you join us.
1:05.0	It's going to be great.
1:06.0	Happy to be here.
1:07.0	Lane, I have to ask, what's the best advantage of being a sports reporter?
1:10.7	We don't get free tickets and that's the biggest misconception.
1:13.9	I was an athlete in college and my coach always asked me, so when are you going to get me
1:17.3	giants tickets?
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