#1580 Bet Your Life: Sports betting is opening new and expensive ways to waste your time and destroy your mental health. The impacts of gambling are straining the legitimacy of sports and how they're reported by ESPN and beyond.
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
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Summary
Air Date 9/3/2023
Sports gambling through smartphones has become widely available and wildly addictive but the effects are being felt beyond the individual gambler's bank account and anxiety levels. Partnerships between gambling companies and colleges, influencers, and even journalistic institutions like ESPN are changing the fundamentals of the sports themselves and how they're understood by fans - all for the worse.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: How the Sports Betting Industry Quietly Consumed America - Wendover Productions - Air Date 12-13-22
How the Sports Betting Industry Quietly Consumed America
Ch. 2: The Explosion of Online Sports Betting with Eric Lipton - Why Is This Happening? - Air Date 5-9-23
You’ve probably encountered an advertisement for sports betting in one form or another. In the past few years, there’s been a marked rise in the number of online sports betting ads from companies like DraftKings and FanDuel.
On the Domonique Foxworth Show, Domonique dives into the latest news of NFL players suspended for gambling violations and how everything revolves around money.
Ch. 4: ESPN Will NEVER be the Same After This Major Decision - TYT Sports - Air Date 8-12-23
Now that legal sports betting has become normalized and adopted nationwide, ESPN is trying to wedge themselves into the market, which is something that should worry anyone who cares about sports. Rick Strom breaks it down.
Ch. 5: The Toxic Normalization of Online Gambling - Cara Nicole - Air Date 9-30-22
In this video, we're dissecting the rise of sports betting apps, gambling shows on Twitch and ESPN, casino streams by celebrities like Drake, and how we're creating widespread gambling addictions
We are weeks away from college basketball’s March Madness and billions of dollars worth of wagers on the games. As more states legalize sports betting, Paul Solman reports on the increasing concern that some colleges are too involved in its promotion.
Ch. 7: What Happened to Black Activism in Professional Sports? - Edge of Sports - Air Date 7-26-23
Later in the show, we have Choice Words about the social cost of smartphone sports gambling becoming the economic lifeblood of sports.
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Ch. 8: The Puppets of Online Gambling - Philion - Air Date 4-7-23
Stake.com is the world's largest crypto casino valued at over 1 billion dollars. It is licensed in Curacao and operates out of Australia. Stake.com is infiltrating pop culture via Twitch streamers celebrities & coporate sponsors
Ch. 9: How Australian sports make money from gambling - Full Story - Air Date 5-10-23
As the online gambling industry grows, at least one Australian football league is taking a greater share of its revenue. Reporter Henry Belot tells Jane Lee why this is a problem for fans, punters and even some players
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Buddhist teachings and A.I. - Craig from Ohio
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on the outsized influence of impetuous billionaires
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.4 | take a look at the impact of the rise of highly addictive smartphone sports gambling, |
| 0:13.9 | the effects of which are being felt beyond the individual gamblers bank account and anxiety |
| 0:18.7 | levels. |
| 0:20.2 | Partnerships between gambling companies and colleges, influencers, and even journalistic |
| 0:24.3 | institutions like ESPN are changing the fundamentals of the sports themselves and how |
| 0:29.8 | they're understood by fans all for the worse. |
| 0:33.8 | Sources today include Windover Productions, Why Is This Happening, The Dominique Foxworth |
| 0:39.3 | Show, TYT Sports, Karen Cole, the PBS NewsHour, and Edge of Sports, with additional members |
| 0:46.4 | only clips from Filion and Full Story. |
| 0:55.4 | The beginnings were as inadvertent as they come. |
| 0:58.5 | Hasteily drawn up and jammed into the entirely unrelated Safe Port Act, the Unlawful Internet |
| 1:03.2 | Gamling Enforcement Act passed through Congress in September of 2006, then, with President |
| 1:08.0 | Bush's signature a month later, became law. |
| 1:11.4 | The unremarkable bit of legislation banged gambling companies from taking payments over |
| 1:15.1 | the internet made it in violation of state or federal law. |
| 1:18.5 | The old guard of online gambling, the likes of full tilt poker, poker stars, and absolute |
| 1:22.8 | poker, the new law would prove an existential threat. |
| 1:26.4 | For a set of upstart, though, it functioned as the legal foundation of an as-yet-untapped |
| 1:31.2 | market. |
| 1:32.2 | In trying to close one loophole, they act open to another with this seemingly innocuous |
| 1:36.1 | exemption, that bedding and wagering did not include participation in fantasy sports, |
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