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Today, billions of dollars are wagered on sports games legally, openly, and often through apps partnered with the leagues themselves. So how did sports gambling go from a taboo relegated to the shadows, to something so pervasive?
In this season of Understood, Danny Funt (journalist and the author of Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling) investigates the sports betting boom that has taken place since 2021. We look at how the legalization of sports gambling sparked a fundamental overhaul of the business of sports, the fan experience, and even the games themselves. Over four episodes you will meet the people who built the industry, the executives who saw an opportunity, the leagues that changed their minds, the bettors who became obsessed, and the athletes who are now players in a whole new game.
Four episodes, releasing weekly starting Monday, Oct. 5.
Understood takes you deep inside the seismic shifts reshaping our world right now. From online porn and crypto chaos to the rise of tech oligarchs, deepfake AI, and the broken promises of the internet — we explore the stories that define our digital age with hosts and characters embedded in the heart of the action.
Season 1 - The Naked Emperor: the rise and fall of bitcoin king Sam Bankman-Fried.
Season 2 - The Pornhub Empire: the story of how a Montreal-founded company came to dominate the adult industry.
Season 3 - Modi’s India: how one man rose from poverty to the peak of political power.
Season 4 - Céline: the surprising cultural, political and business alchemy that created a superstar.
Season 5 - Who Broke the Internet? The internet sucks now, and it happened on purpose.
Season 6 - The Making of Elon Musk: exploring the little known side of the polarizing billionaire
Season 7 - Deepfake Porn Empire: the porn was fake. The fallout was real.
Season 8 - Artificial Intimacy: What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot?
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- E4: All Bets are Off · 47 min · Sesong 9 Episode 4When NBA player Jontay Porter and his co-conspirators are caught fixing games and face the consequences, the message professional sports want to send is clear: legalized sports…
- E3: Players or Props? · 31 min · Sesong 9 Episode 3When single-event prop betting was legalized, athletes suddenly became more than players, they became betting chips. Their points, their rebounds, and their injuries now win or…
- E2: Winners and Losers · 47 min · Sesong 9 Episode 2What makes sports betting so addictive? We explore how sportsbooks take lessons from casinos to keep users hooked. When gambling is legalized everyone is going all in including…
- E1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? · 38 min · Sesong 9 Episode 1How did sports betting go from being illegal to being EVERYWHERE? The answer lies in the convergence of daily fantasy sports apps, a bombshell New York Times op-ed, and the…
- Introducing The Big Bet · 3 min · Sesong 9Once associated with bookies, organized crime, and backroom bets, sports betting is now one of the fastest-growing industries in North America. This is the story of how it went…
- Artificial Intimacy | E4: Behind the Bot · 29 min · Sesong 8 Episode 4When you talk to a chatbot, it can feel like technological magic. But behind the illusion of engineering brilliance is an open secret in the tech industry: that tens of thousands…
- Artificial Intimacy | E3: AI Psychosis · 36 min · Sesong 8 Episode 3When you’re using a chat bot to draft an email, find a recipe, or look something up, it’s hard to imagine it could unravel your grasp on reality. But “Peter” says that’s exactly…
- Artificial Intimacy | E2: Grief Bots · 33 min · Sesong 8 Episode 1When Joshua Barbeau proposed to his girlfriend, Jessica Courtney Periera, she was already in the ICU. 10 years later, Joshua was still grieving her death. That’s when he came…
- Artificial Intimacy | E1: Love Bots · 36 min · Sesong 8 Episode 1In 2021, Sara met Jack and fell in love. He was charming, imaginative, and bore an uncanny resemblance to Henry Cavill. But Jack wasn’t human… he was a chatbot. It sounds like…
- Introducing Understood: Artificial Intimacy · 3 min · Sesong 8The friend who never hangs up. The lover who always says the right thing. The therapist you always wanted. What could go wrong? A new season from CBC's Understood.
- Deepfake Porn Empire | E4: The Fake Porn Pharmacist · 35 min · Sesong 7 Episode 4Almost a year after Ida Herskind started her investigation in Copenhagen, the digital chase is over. The team have identified the person allegedly behind MrDeepFakes.com: a…
- Deepfake Porn Empire | E3: The Notorious D.P.F.K.S. · 34 min · Sesong 7 Episode 3Journalist Ida Herskind is working at a Danish newspaper when she comes across a story that stops her cold: it’s about a porn video that looks real — but isn’t. And the woman in…
- Deepfake Porn Empire | E2: So You’ve Been Deepfaked · 32 min · Sesong 7 Episode 2When “Taylor” found out she’d been deepfaked in 2020, she also learned she wasn’t alone. She teams up with another target, and together they start comparing notes to figure out…
- Deepfake Porn Empire | E1: The Dawn of Fake Porn · 38 min · Sesong 7 Episode 1When a streamer who goes by QTCinderella starts trending on Twitter, she isn’t expecting to see her face on a porn site — her face, doing things she never did. Because the…
- Introducing Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire · 3 min · Sesong 7Non-consensual deepfake porn is becoming increasingly pervasive, and it didn’t just come out of nowhere. These deepfakes were created and curated by people, on platforms, inside…
- The Making of Elon Musk | E4: The Great Trek · 45 min · Sesong 6 Episode 4Finally, we launch into Musk’s ultimate quest — his desire to colonize Mars — and how he went from wanting to save earth to wanting to escape it. We hear the origin story of…
- The Making of Elon Musk | E3: The Legion · 50 min · Sesong 6 Episode 3What does Musk, father of 14, expect from his “legion” of children? We unravel his quest for genetic optimization, including alleged embryo screening, and his pronatalist views…
- The Making of Elon Musk | E2: Technocracy, Inc. · 48 min · Sesong 6 Episode 2Could Musk’s authoritarian streak trace back to his Canadian grandfather? Before Joshua Haldeman brought his family to South Africa, he made waves as part of the radical 1930s…
- The Making of Elon Musk | E1: Escape from Pretoria · 39 min · Sesong 6 Episode 1Where did Elon Musk’s epic ambitions begin? In search of clues we return to his sheltered youth in apartheid South Africa, a world engineered for white supremacy. Along the way…
- Introducing Understood: The Making of Elon Musk · 3 min · Sesong 6What explains Elon Musk? Could his most outlandish ambitions and most toxic qualities trace back to his youth in Apartheid South Africa? Understood: The Making of Musk explores…
