Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Shohei Ohtani's historic deal, and why we can't get enough of Godzilla


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Why would any sports team pay $700 million for a single player? Well, when that athlete is Shohei Ohtani, it seems almost reasonable. It turns out the answer has a lot to do with who’s watching — and who’s paying to advertise. Sports writer Morgan Campbell gets into it. Plus, with the latest installment in the Godzilla franchise becoming the highest grossing Japanese film ever released in the U.S., Godzilla superfan and expert William Tsutsui and Asian culture critic Michelle Cho join Elamin to look at the long history of one of the most popular movie monsters of all time.
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