Three Bets

Planet Money

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Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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We jog to New Jersey to bet on tennis, we solve a mystery in Las Vegas, and we venture into the world of video game loot. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:04.0	We can keep Roamer.
0:10.0	Director, run and close.
0:12.0	I'm here. I'm ready.
0:13.0	Give me time, Jack. What do you got?
0:14.0	903 AM.
0:15.0	All right, so 903 AM in New York City, which means it is 903 PM in Wuhan, China, where currently
0:22.8	the Wuhan Open tennis tournament is going on.
0:26.0	There's one match left. We still have time to play sports bet.
0:29.0	We are in New York City, where it is illegal to make a sports bet on your phone.
0:33.0	However, we are at the George Washington Bridge and on the other side of that bridge, New Jersey.
0:38.0	Gamblers Paradise.
0:40.0	Off we go, Keith.
0:41.0	Okay, come on.
0:46.0	Keith, come on.
0:47.0	You're like a decade younger than me.
0:49.0	Keith, you know I've been doing this for about a year, right?
0:51.0	The running across the bridge?
0:52.0	Yeah, the play sports bets from time to time.
0:54.0	Okay.
0:55.0	This is Jersey.
0:56.0	Jersey enough.
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