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Fanatics enters the world of prediction markets.
Fanatics will launch a real-money prediction market across 24 U.S. states in phases over the coming days. Built in partnership with Crypto.com, Fanatics Markets now live in 10 states and coming soon to major markets like California, Texas, Florida and Washington. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.
Nine out of ten people seeking jobs say they have a side hustle — a second or even third job. An Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll from October 2025 also says a higher percentage of younger job-seekers — Gen Z and Millennials —expect to be able to overlap their side jobs on company time. Money is a major factor – and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported this year that more employers are cutting hours. We’ll talk with some of those who are working multiple jobs about the ups and downs of juggling a side hustle.
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Mikailah Thompson (Nimiipuu), owner of Beadwork by Mikailah and owner of Indigenous Creatives, LLC
Roberta Begaye (Diné), owner of Bitterwater Galerie
Stephanie Garcia (Santa Domingo, Laguna, and Isleta), owner of Pueblo Creations and Pueblo Collective Enterprise
Roxanne Best (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), businessowner and founder of R. Best Life: Yoga and Coaching
Break 1 Music: Working for the Man (song) Bluedog (artist) Red, White & Blues (album)
Break 2 Music: Coffee (song) James Bilagody (artist) Near Midnight (album)
Nine out of ten people seeking jobs say they have a side hustle — a second or even third job. An Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll from October 2025 also says a higher percentage of younger job-seekers — Gen Z and Millennials —expect to be able to overlap their side jobs on company time. Money is a major factor – and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported this year that more employers are cutting hours. We’ll talk with some of those who are working multiple jobs about the ups and downs of juggling a side hustle.
GUESTS
Mikailah Thompson (Nimiipuu), owner of Beadwork by Mikailah and owner of Indigenous Creatives, LLC
Roberta Begaye (Diné), owner of Bitterwater Galerie
Stephanie Garcia (Santa Domingo, Laguna, and Isleta), owner of Pueblo Creations and Pueblo Collective Enterprise
Roxanne Best (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), businessowner and founder of R. Best Life: Yoga and Coaching
Break 1 Music: Working for the Man (song) Bluedog (artist) Red, White & Blues (album)
Break 2 Music: Coffee (song) James Bilagody (artist) Near Midnight (album)
Growing pressure on Defense Secretary Hegseth. New look at Jeffrey Epstein's island. Immigration sweeps in New Orleans. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has these stories and more on the World News Roundup.
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The Transportation Security Administration announced earlier this week that passengers without a REAL ID or other acceptable documents (like a passport or tribal ID) will have to pay a $45 fee for the extra screening required to get through security. We'll hear more. Plus, as part of our continued lunar economy series, we'll learn about what developing infrastructure or communications systems on the moon might look like.
From the BBC World Service: European antitrust regulators have just launched an investigation into Meta over its rollout of artificial intelligence features on WhatsApp for European users. This move marks the latest action by European regulators against large technology firms, as the trade bloc seeks to balance support for the sector with efforts to curb its expanding influence. Then, air travelers in India face continued disruptions, and Japan tries to regain a stronghold in semiconductor chip manufacturing.
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Gajus Kuizinas lives in Mexico City, and travels between there, New York and San Francisco. He had a non-traditional upbringing for an engineer, as all of his family were into the arts - so he had to make his own way. He started in Lithuania, and eventually was recruiting to setup computers and networks for dating platforms. Eventually, he got into freelancing, and started his first startup in the UK. Outside of tech, he has a garden, which doubles as an ecosystem for his free roaming hedgehog and bunny.
Gajus started to think about the arc of becoming a freelancer. He realized that everyone who goes through a journey as a freelancer feels like a cog in the machine, and falls off the marketplaces out there. He realized that there was a massive vacuum and gap in the internet for these folks that needed to be filled.
This is the creation story of Contra.
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