Barstool Sports founder David Portnoy is cashing in without selling out. (Photo by Tom Briglia/ … [+] Getty Images) Tom Briglia There is something apropos about Barstool Sports being the subject of a multi-hundred million dollar deal during Super Bowl week. This is the time of year when Barstool founder Dave Portnoy makes his noise,…
Read MoreListen & Subscribe Choose your preferred player: Get Your Slate Plus Feed Copy your ad-free feed link below to load into your player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. Episode Notes This week Aymann talks to Jason Smith, a tech executive who has worries about being the only black…
Read MoreAmericans are crazy about podcasts. Every week more than 60 million tunes in to one of the thousands of podcasts show available online. The podcast has become a reliable companion for millions as they work, do chores and, perhaps more than anything else, sit in traffic. “(T)he medium has finally come into the mainstream,” commented…
Read MoreAlthough Apple removed all 181 vaping-related apps from the App Store earlier this week, the number of cannabis-focused podcasts continues to grow. Today, one of the smartest yet has dropped, promising to give women guidance on How to do the Pot. The seasonal, narrative podcast tackles the most common questions curious female cannabis consumers Google…
Read MoreWelcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 243, dated January 28, 2020. Recap. The busyness of January continues. Three stories from the last seven days: On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is planning to finance original podcasts that would serve as companion media to its slate of programming on Apple TV+….
Read MoreIn this episode of Rule Breaker Investing, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner looks over some five-stock samplers. First, he reviews the one-year performance for Five Stocks Shrouded in Mystery. Don’t remember what’s so mysterious about these companies? You’ll have to tune in — or scroll down. Then, a new sampler emerges — Five Stocks that Spark…
Read MoreSaki Knafo, host and writer of the first episode of the podcast “Conviction.” (James Cabrera / Gimlet Media) BY JODY ROSENMarch 22, 2019 Less than a minute into the first episode of “Conviction,” the latest release from the Gimlet Media podcast network, the narration takes on a hardboiled tone. “Manny Gomez, private eye, lives alone…
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Read MoreComedian and podcast host Joe Rogan’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders — and the subsequent outrage in gay, trans, and other communities over Sanders’s embrace of the endorsement — is one of the most intricate and multifaceted political controversies of recent months. Rogan is known for his stints on the NBC shows NewsRadio and Fear Factor…
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