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Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Hamlin of Axios here with Emily Peck of Axios. Hello.

Here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and Slate places like that. Hello.

We are going to be talking about the media industry today and specifically the sports part

of it. The economic support streaming and cables and broadcasts and all of that stuff with

basically the person who knows more about this kind of thing than anyone else on the planet.

Stay tuned to find out who that is. We are also going to talk about Mark and Jason's

deranged techno optimist manifesto. We have a Slate Plus segment on consumer finances is all

coming up on Slate Money. Let's start with media and specifically the arm of the entertainment

industry that is sports. I always like to think of sports as an arm of the entertainment industry.

It starts making a lot more sense when you do that. The problem is as someone who doesn't watch

sports, I don't really understand how it works and Elizabeth and Emily, I'm going to be very

rude about you for a minute, so just forgive me, but you aren't entirely sports experts either.

So we have brought someone on who is Sarah Fisher. Welcome. Hey, good to see you or hear you

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