Understood: The Big Bet
By CBC
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Episodes: 48
Lee
May 22, 2025
"Who Broke the Internet" is essential listening for anyone who's touched a piece of technology in the last 5 years. Doctorow is a philosopher on all things digital and thank you to the CBC for calling out the rise of enshittification!
Rebecca
May 28, 2024
Excellent reporting and a very interesting podcast! No matter what the topic is, I listen and know it's going to be good. 😊
Apr 5, 2023
ian
Mar 28, 2023
high quality, well produced, well narrated. i liked it a lot.
Description
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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E2: Winners and Losers
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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E1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
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Oct 05, 2026 |
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Introducing The Big Bet
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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Artificial Intimacy | E4: Behind the Bot
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Artificial Intimacy | E3: AI Psychosis
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Artificial Intimacy | E2: Grief Bots
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May 26, 2026 |
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Artificial Intimacy | E1: Love Bots
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May 19, 2026 |
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Introducing Understood: Artificial Intimacy
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May 15, 2026 |
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Deepfake Porn Empire | E4: The Fake Porn Pharmacist
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Deepfake Porn Empire | E3: The Notorious D.P.F.K.S.
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Deepfake Porn Empire | E2: So You’ve Been Deepfaked
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Deepfake Porn Empire | E1: The Dawn of Fake Porn
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Introducing Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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The Making of Elon Musk | E4: The Great Trek
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Making of Elon Musk | E3: The Legion
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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The Making of Elon Musk | E2: Technocracy, Inc.
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The Making of Elon Musk | E1: Escape from Pretoria
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Introducing Understood: The Making of Elon Musk
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Who Broke the Internet? | E4: Kick 'Em in the Dongle
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May 26, 2025 |
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Who Broke the Internet? | E3: In God We Antitrust
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May 19, 2025 |
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Who Broke the Internet? | E2: Ctrl, Ctrl, Ctrl
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May 12, 2025 |
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Who Broke the Internet? | E1: Don't Be Evil
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May 05, 2025 |
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Introducing Understood: Who Broke the Internet?
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Céline Episode 4: The Céline-aissance
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Céline Episode 3: The Globalization of Céline
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Céline Episode 2: The U.S. Gamble
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Céline Episode 1: Conquering Québec
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Introducing Céline: Understood
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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BONUS: Modi’s weak win
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Modi's India Episode 4: The Storyteller
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May 27, 2024 |
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Modi's India Episode 3: The Strongman
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May 20, 2024 |
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Modi's India Episode 2: Development Man
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May 13, 2024 |
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Modi's India Episode 1: Emperor of Hindu Hearts
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May 13, 2024 |
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Modi's India: Season 3 of Understood
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Pornhub Empire Episode 4: Cleanup crew
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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The Pornhub Empire Episode 3: Pornhub’s disgrace
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The Pornhub Empire Episode 2: Pornhub goes mainstream
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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The Pornhub Empire Episode 1: Free porn for everyone
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Introducing: The Pornhub Empire
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Bonus: Click Here from Recorded Future News
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The Naked Emperor BONUS | Guilty: The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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The Naked Emperor BONUS: The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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The Naked Emperor BONUS: Binance and its CEO sued in major crypto case
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The Naked Emperor Episode 4: It Takes a Village
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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The Naked Emperor Episode 3: Busted
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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The Naked Emperor Episode 2: The Beginning of the End
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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The Naked Emperor Episode 1: The Hype
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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The Naked Emperor Trailer – Season 1 of Understood
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Feb 22, 2023 |