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Understood: The Big Bet
by CBC
Today: #87 in Technology on our combined chart.
Today: #85 in Technology, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #5 in Technology, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #38 in Technology, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #105 in Technology, Mexico on our combined chart.
Today: #55 in Technology, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #38 in Technology, Ireland on our combined chart.
Today: #175 in Technology, India on our combined chart.
Today: #185 in Technology, Philippines on our combined chart.
Today: #24 in Technology, South Africa on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Pocket Casts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27 | #87 | #70 | — | #74 |
| Oct 26 | #101 | #89 | — | #93 |
| Oct 25 | #103 | #91 | — | #89 |
| Oct 24 | #101 | #90 | — | #82 |
| Oct 23 | #97 | #84 | — | #82 |
| Oct 22 | #101 | #89 | — | #75 |
| Oct 21 | #90 | #71 | — | #70 |
| Oct 20 | #89 | #70 | — | #79 |
| Oct 19 | #96 | #80 | — | #72 |
| Oct 18 | #80 | #60 | — | #68 |
| Oct 17 | #92 | #74 | — | #51 |
| Oct 16 | #68 | #47 | #40 | #40 |
| Oct 15 | #62 | #36 | #36 | #36 |
| Oct 14 | #68 | #40 | — | #51 |
Latest episodes
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E4: All Bets are Off
October 26, 2026 · 47 minWhen 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 betting is bringing law and order to a once-seedy underworld…
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E3: Players or Props?
October 19, 2026 · 31 minWhen 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 lose people money. Sometimes, a LOT of money. And if…
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E2: Winners and Losers
October 12, 2026 · 47 minWhat 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 Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter, and two everyday bettors: a…
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E1: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
October 5, 2026 · 38 minHow 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 potential of a multi-billion dollar payout. And we tell the story…
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Introducing The Big Bet
September 28, 2026 · 3 minOnce 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 mainstream — and who’s paying the price. Four episodes…
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Artificial Intimacy | E4: Behind the Bot
June 9, 2026 · 29 minWhen 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 of workers, many based in Africa, spend their days teaching…
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Artificial Intimacy | E3: AI Psychosis
June 2, 2026 · 36 minWhen 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 what happened to his girlfriend, “Melissa”. It didn’t seem…
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Artificial Intimacy | E2: Grief Bots
May 26, 2026 · 33 minWhen 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 across Project December. With just a short writing sample and a…
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Artificial Intimacy | E1: Love Bots
May 19, 2026 · 36 minIn 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 science fiction, but people have been creating emotional bonds…
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Introducing Understood: Artificial Intimacy
May 15, 2026 · 3 minThe 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.
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Deepfake Porn Empire | E2: So You’ve Been Deepfaked
February 24, 2026 · 32 minWhen “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 who did this to them. As they narrow their search, a familiar…
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Deepfake Porn Empire | E1: The Dawn of Fake Porn
February 17, 2026 · 38 minWhen 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 videos weren’t of her. They were deepfakes. Instead of staying…
About the show
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?