The Girlies Guide To Gambling Pt 2 with Motoi Pearson | INTERVIEWS
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
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| 0:00.0 | We all had really good points. |
| 0:01.5 | Okay. |
| 0:02.0 | Probably except for Harry, I would say. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to spinsters, a podcast where we love to talk about gambling and walks. |
| 0:12.7 | This is Matoi Pearson. |
| 0:14.5 | That was great. |
| 0:15.1 | That was like 10 out of 10. |
| 0:16.4 | It's great job. |
| 0:18.3 | You're a podcast host. |
| 0:20.4 | Oh, my goodness. We were all betting for you. |
| 0:25.1 | Okay. Well, okay, so do you, can you introduce yourself? And then I want to know before anything, |
| 0:32.2 | how does somebody get into this job? Oh, well, my name is Matoi Pearson. I'm a senior trader at Winbet. |
| 0:41.0 | Somehow I got this job, which is I think I'm pretty fortunate to have it in the first place. |
| 0:45.2 | Number one, you know, I'm from Las Vegas originally. So, you know, I'm not really too |
| 0:52.1 | prone to, you know, I wasn't gambling when I was young or anything, but my dad kind of, you know, he, I love sports my whole life and my dad got me into it. And I think I was in like third or fourth grade when, like, he taught me about, you know, I think the Packers and Raiders were playing like a Monday night game. He's like, yeah, I got, I got some money on it, you know, something small. I said you could bet on the games and he's like, yeah, like he's showing me this sheet of paper with like the point spreads |
| 1:14.7 | and the games. And he's like, yeah, like, he's showing me this sheet of paper with like the point spreads and totals. And like, I was like, this can't be right. You know, I was actually more entertained with like, who made these numbers? Like, how could the Packers be a six point favorite? He goes, oh, I don't really know. You know, he's like being honest with me. |
| 1:27.7 | I'm a kid. I'm doing like my homework next to him while he's watching the game. He's drinking a beer. |
| 1:43.9 | And, you know, I was kind of hooked from then on out. I wasn't gambling at the time, but I was like paying attention to it while my dad was doing it. And when I got into high school, that's when I kind of started getting to some, you know, like pools and stuff like that for betting. |
| 1:46.0 | And, you know, a lot of my friends love sports too. |
| 1:44.7 | So that grew into me. I started getting to some, you know, like pools and stuff like that for betting. And, you know, |
| 1:50.4 | a lot of my friends love sports too. So that grew into me, you know, getting out of college. |
| 1:58.8 | I worked like a bunch of retail jobs before. I was 21. And then I applied for like 15 casino jobs to be a writer, a sports writer. Oh, okay. |
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