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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey there, boys and girls, welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with |
0:37.0 | Andrew Brand. I'm your host, Andrew Brand. We're produced by Jack Connell. We're presented as always by |
0:42.3 | Draft Kings and the music you hear under me is from my traveling partner the past 12 days. |
0:48.4 | Sam Brandt, Boy Blue Tunes. He was doing K-pop in Korea and J-pop in Japan. I joined him for the latter. So yeah, no podcast |
0:58.8 | last week. I would have been able to do it time-wise, but just the time and getting with Jack on |
1:04.6 | timing, 13-hour difference over there was hard to do. But great trip. I am a fan of the Japanese culture. It's very serene. |
1:14.6 | It's very zen. A couple things stand out to me. No one would ever be caught dead. |
1:19.6 | J-walking. They stand waiting for those lights to change. They would stand there, not anxious, not worried about it for minutes and minutes. |
1:29.7 | Just a very, there's a hospitality there that was just so nice. |
1:36.4 | Very impressed with the Japanese people moving around between Tokyo twice, two different times in Tokyo. |
1:43.6 | Kyoto and the Mount Fuji area. |
1:45.9 | Didn't climb Mount Fuji, but climbed a mountain around it. |
1:49.2 | So back from Japan, as we prepare for another year of the NFL, another year of me teaching, |
1:55.7 | another year of me podcasting and writing. |
1:58.6 | I've got some projects along the way, consulting for NIL with colleges, |
2:03.2 | all of that. But here we are in the podcast. I missed you and I want to cover a few things I missed. |
2:08.8 | The main thing I missed is the NFL deal with ESPN. There are a couple of huge media deals |
2:15.2 | that we're going to talk about on this podcast. |
2:19.1 | Let's get right to the NFL deal. |
2:28.0 | This had been rumored for a while that the NFL was in talks with ESPN, one of its major partners on the broadcast side. |
2:36.6 | And there was this rumor about a merger or an acquisition or some kind of partnership between the NFL and ESPN. |
2:39.1 | And we didn't know what was going to happen, how that was real. |
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