Matt is joined by president of Endeavor Mark Shapiro to discuss the future of streaming, the evolving relationship between talent and representation in the creator economy, Endeavor’s interest in sports, gambling, and the college NIL market, as well as Monday Night Football’s future at ESPN. They discuss how agencies are making money nowadays and what they w ... Show More
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What Netflix's Exec Purge Means for Its Movies and TV
Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss the big executive shakeup at Netflix, which included the firings of chief content officer Bela Bajaria and head of film Dan Lin. They break down why this happened now, what to expect from new chief content officer Peter Rice, ho ... Show More
37m 10s
Oct 13
Five Narratives That Could Swing the 2026 Awards Season
Matt is joined by Kyle Buchanan, former New York Times journalist and host of The Kyle Buchanan Show, to discuss the biggest narratives heading into awards season this year. They discuss if 'The Odyssey' is already a lock to win Best Picture, if Inde Navarrette can win Best Actre ... Show More
37m 51s
Oct 2025
Loads of Vultures: Funds, Agents, Bets
Matt and Katie discuss multistrategy hedge funds, talent sieves, agents vs. headhunters, hedge fund managers' sense of their market value, agents for AI researchers, same-game parlays, sportsbook market structure and football betting ETFs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i ... Show More
31m 7s
Aug 2021
Return of the Chris Mack Saga, Duping ESPN, and a Kyle Guy Update
Mark Titus and Tate Frazier link up to discuss the Chris Mack-Dino Gaudio transcript, the Bishop Sycamore-ESPN scandal, and Titus’s experience at the Kyle Guy Foundation Golf Tournament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
1h 19m
Aug 2025
Cool and Fun for Capital Markets Nerds: Tayvis, MSTR, IPO
Katie and Matt discuss Taylor Swift, dating podcasters, the betting markets/financial markets convergence, commodity insider trading, a magical money printing machine, weird preferred stocks, the crypto treasury boom, Money Stuff’s effect on academic tenure, IPO pops, private com ... Show More
32m 24s
Oct 2024
What’s the Biggest Threat to the U.S. Economy’s Soft-Landing? — ft. Mark Zandi
Scott and Ed open the show by discussing Starboard Value’s activist stake in Pfizer, the end of the Longshoremen’s strike, and Ben Horowitz’s decision to donate to Kamala Harris’s campaign. Then Mark Zandi, Chief Economist of Moody’s Analytics, joins the show to discuss the recen ... Show More
54m 58s
Dec 2020
#137 - The Aftermath of The Combine Idea, The Next Trillion Dollar Industry, Crypto Art Selling For Millions
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) discuss: - (16:45-27:40) Shaan's $10m/yr idea: combine for young athletes - (27:40-33:10) What small markets today will be worth trillions in the future? - (33:10-35:55) Shaan becomes a minor celebrity within the bitcoin community ... Show More
1h 9m
Jan 2019
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital discusses how to unearth the unexplored ideas that will reshape our future. We also talk about parenting, decision-making, and which generation has the best rap. Go Premium: Members get early access, ad-free episodes, hand-edited transcripts, ... Show More
1h 38m
Nov 2021
Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about the recent Barstool sports drama and how to react to getting canceled, Billy of the Week Bryan Johnson and his extreme body monitoring, the future of apparel retail and automated drive-throughs, and more. They also play ... Show More
1h 17m