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Andre Agassi on tennis, new venture, philanthropy

On this week's episode, host Jon Wertheim talks with Andre Agassi. The pair discusses Agassi's recent investment with his wife, Steffi Graf, and others in the new athlete-created video website Unscriptd. Agassi reveals what he now spends most of his time doing, his philanthropic efforts with the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education and what he learned from writing his book Open: An Autobiography, his current relationship with sports—specifically with tennis—and more.

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