March Madness and the NCAA tournament are in full effect, and it’s one of the biggest sports betting times of the year. Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show correspondent, Michael Kosta, and gambling industry reporter for ESPN, David Purdum, for a conversation about how professional sports leagues are embracing the new profit potential, whether the e ... Show More
Today
The Precap | Josh Johnson on RNC Crashing Grindr, Offering Trump-Backed Bribes & Debuting Hasan Piker’s Meat
This week's host Josh Johnson sits down with Daily Show writer Joe Opio to recap the latest news, and preview the week to come. Josh Johnson and Daily Show writer Joe Opio break down this week's news, from Hasan Piker's semi-nude pic at the GOP's midterm convention to Apple's new ... Show More
52m 50s
Yesterday
TDS Time Machine | The War on Climate Change
Taking a look back at The Daily Show's coverage of the war on, and over, climate change. Jon Stewart talks climate change denialism in the U.S. Congress. Jordan Klepper investigates Trump's war on climate science. Roy Wood Jr. asks, what's wrong with our brains that we can't unde ... Show More
32m 1s
Sep 13
This Week's Interviews | Gov. Spencer Cox, Jia Tolentino, Andrew Garfield
Check out all of this week's great guests. Republican Governor Spencer Cox joins Jon Stewart to discuss his new book, “Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt,” and reveals how the assassination of Charlie Kirk in his home state of Utah pushed him to finish writing ... Show More
59m 52s
Feb 2023
How Sports Betting Hit the Mainstream in America
<p>This weekend, one of the most watched sporting events of the year, the Super Bowl, will draw an estimated $16 billion in bets from Americans, more than double last year’s total.</p><p>The booming trade is a sign of how gambling has gone from illegal to legal very quickly in ma ... Show More
34m 25s
Dec 2024
All Or Nothing: The Rise of Sports Betting | 134
In this episode we examine America’s favorite pastime: gambling. With loosening regulations, the explosion of online betting sites, and the full support of major sports leagues, sportsbetting has become ripe for scam. In this episode we meet an accountant who worked the system an ... Show More
52m 56s
Dec 2024
The case against legal sports betting
Sports betting is a costly mistake, says addiction researcher Charles Fain Lehman. He and NBA great Danny Green discuss how it's changed sports for the worse, and whether there's a way to fix it.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact checked by ... Show More
25m 38s
Dec 2024
How sports gambling blew up
Sports gambling isn't exactly a financial market, but it rhymes with financial markets. What happens on Wall Street somehow eventually also happens in sports gambling. So in the 1980s, when computers and deep statistical analysis entered the markets, it also entered the sportsboo ... Show More
30m 15s
<p>First, (3:00) Colin explains how the gambling explosion has juiced March Madness ratings.</p> <p>Then, Colin and<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-and-out-with-john-middlekauff/id1352730623"> <em>3 and Out</em></a> podcast Host<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnMid ... Show More
