Is the sports betting industry a huge mistake?

DAN IS IN CRIPPLING DEBT FROM AN EIGHT-LEG PARLAY INVOLVING THE PATRIOTS AND PHIL MICKELSON. GOOD WORK INVESTIGATES.

Featuring interviews with Dr. Timothy Fong of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, Kenneth Vogel of the New York Times, Oliver Barnes of the Financial Times, Richard Daynard of the Northeastern University School of Law and the Public Health Advocacy Institute, and Saul Malek.

Video by Dan Toomey and Henry Stockwell

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[TheJKDragon]

Dont start gambeling at all no matter what, I lost all my drug money.

[KamilDeKerel]

"we lied and told them we were 60 minutes" top tier journalism right here

[calvinsomers]

It’s literally impossible for someone who wants to quit sports gambling to just sit back and enjoy watching the games without constantly being reminded of their temptation. It’s so cruel.

[hithere]

I feel like gambling at home is a lot more risky than gambling at a casino. When you have to drive to the casino there’s that barrier and there’s some time for you to think, turn around and decide not to. Whereas at home you open your phone and it’s done.

Casinos aren’t usually run by saints and they try to play on the addictive nature of gambling as well but at least the casino isn’t in my pocket.

[shutterbird]

Thank you for highlighting the "waterboarding" approach to advertising. The day it became legal in Michigan, we were swamped day and night with that BS, and it hasn't let up since. I'm at a level of fed up where I now despise every celebrity that has anything to do with it. I used to really like John Goodman and Vince Vaughan...

[notgrubba]

nothing better than waking up to another video by my favorite 3 kids in a trench coat

[macygilliam]

its so epic that if you simply buy enough cigars you can write your own laws

[usernnammeeffghjjjjjjjk]

As an Australian who's seen gambling ruin countless lives, the idea of "responsible gambling" is a red herring and designed to blame the consumer for their supposed lack of self control. Lobbying and tax incentives means the US will put business before its citizens as usual so my advice would be to never start gambling in the first place as it will only cause pain and suffering in the long run.

[Jonifico]

I love how the info is very serious and professionally presented with quick bursts of absolute madness. This format is gold.

[TheRealUnconnected]

As an australian, a country that loses more to gambling than any other country, all i can say, is you guys need to sort this out before it kills your country. Australia has an unbelieveably fucked sports betting culture, ever since it was deregulated to allow gamified app-based betting companies (rather than the existing government-ran off-track betting we had for decades) it has been just absolutely fucked. It destroys lives like almost nothing else. I don't have a problem with gambling, but combining gambling with gamified apps and unrestricted advertising is an absolute shitfest that will fuck your country up.

[yawnberg]

Something not addressed here and represents another huge hidden cost is how accessible (and attractive) sports betting has become for kids. It's so much more prevalent in high schools than parents realize and will have awful long term effects on a generation of kids already facing a lot of financial challenges.

[rfwhyte]

My biggest problem with sports gambling is how much worse it's made sports overall. Literally every single sports show, podcast, YouTube channel, etc. is now completely blanketed in sports gambling ads, and the "Odds" and "Lines" have insidiously wormed their way into the content itself, with hosts, commentators and pundits now spending half their time talking about betting, taking away time and focus from the sport their audiences actually care about.

[Ja_Wu]

Thank you, Rick Astley, for that investigative journalism

[redcoat]

Bro was mogging every person he interviewed like an absolute menace.

Amazing and incredibly insightful video. All the sports betting ads have gotten into Canada, and it’s crazy how prevalent it’s become, both in advertising and users.

[Sizzyl]

The way you re-used the one clip of your staring into the camera was hilarious. Every time it showed up I laughed a little louder.

[SunnySpringDay]

As someone outside the US, these ads look absolutely insane

[shovellware]

The cut to Dan's face being serious during zoom calls is my favorite bit every episode😂

[shakalakameccalekka]

Waking up and absolutely being waterborded by sports betting ads😂😂😂😂😂

[jbmp]

Thank you so much for talking about this issue. It's disgusting the way sports gambling is advertised so aggressively on all platforms, and especially to young people. Sports gambling is INSIDIOUS and dangerous. Gambling probably SHOULD be legal, but that doesn't mean it should be so unregulated and predatory. We need to discuss our country's problems with Gambling and Alcohol IN PARTICULAR.

[Hotshotk]

If they want to have a legal market rather than just a black market, they can do that. But ban them from advertising: let word-of-mouth find them, the same way that the black market apparently did. Also who thought that the government effectively subsidizing sports betting's "free money" offers was a good idea? Heck, they shouldn't be allowed to do that at all as a user acquisition strategy, advertising or not. The last thing that society needs is for more people to be pulled into this industry.