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this was such a fun conversation! I’m excited to listen to this show now that I am back from being off the grid

it is very funny that they made The Beam brighter this season, a real "A tree falls in the woods," scenario

I sort of worried this was too harsh after publishing it, but no, they are Pure Ass

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The Sacramento Kings may not be good, but they're doing whatever this is

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Jeffrey Epstein Was The Unofficial Advice Columnist For The Elites | Defector Ever since it was disclosed that financier Leon Black had paid Jeffrey Epstein over $150 million for tax and estate planning in 2014, six years after the latter pleaded guilty to child prostitution…

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the nets are at least trying to be bad and have young players, so i guess Regular Ass

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Let's Check In With People Who Threatened To Leave Zohran Mamdani's NYC | Defector When Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo to win the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, it led to a lot of histrionics. The usual fear tactics against a young Muslim democratic socialist h...

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When the FBI arrested Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, the basketball-watching public turned to sports media to help make sense of the story. What explanations were on offer? Before disclosing its own BetMGM partnership, The Athletic called “all of sports” complicit in the scandal. Bill Simmons dismissed the episode as ”a couple bad apples,” growing pains typical of a growth industry. Zach Lowe had ESPN's betting guy on his podcast; together they concluded that these issues can be tinkered out of existence by limiting prop bets and changing how teams report injuries. Lowe's podcast, like Simmons's, began with a FanDuel ad. The takeover of sports media by gambling companies imposes hard boundaries on the domain of these conversations. Most importantly, these captured discussions always obscure the social and political choices that enable the gambling industry to entrench itself. Allowing people to gamble on their phones and allowing sports gambling companies to spend untold sums on lobbying and advertising are choices. These choices, not some law of nature, are why millions of people have started gambling in recent years. Likewise, other sports media companies have chosen to offer up their audiences as prey to gambling outfits. Defector has chosen something else: We never have and never will take money from gambling companies. Subscribers fund our operations, which allows us to remain independent, critical, and uncompromised. Consider making that choice.

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Theres a guy who makes videos where he forces Barstool employees to do the NYT mini and so far the two people who’ve done it took 5 and 8 minutes respectively. Insane

ty for tip, now monitoring the situation

interesting NBA news today, someone should make a narrative podcast about breaking the rules

not this season, but i would like to next season

he’s gonna come back on soon, i’ll ask him!

getting a lot of questions about how to rate the show: 1 star is bad, 5 is good, we want 5 star ratings, not 1

thank you!

I listened -- this was great, congrats, patrick! Subbed!

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