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The James Altucher Show

Good or Bad: Gambling!

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

I have launched a new subseries with my good friend, A.J. Jacobs!As the title mentioned, we discussed, the Good or the Bad of something. It could be anything from gambling, dogs, cosmetics, cars, and more! In this particular episode, we talked about the good and the bad of gambling! Is gambling all bad and no good, or there is actually some good in them?Listen to the episode, and feel free to tweet at me @jaltucher, or AJ @ajjacobs and let us know what do you think about this new subseries?My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookSHOW CONTR ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to a very special new series on the James Outlet Show.

0:07.6

Today we started off with a very special episode.

0:10.0

It's part of a series of episodes I did with my good friend, AJ Jacobs.

0:14.4

You've heard AJ on here so many times.

0:17.0

He wrote, dropped in healthy.

0:21.2

The know-it-all where he read the encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z.

0:24.9

He wrote my year of the year of living biblically.

0:28.0

He wrote a ton of books and he has a new upcoming book about puzzles that we'll have him on.

0:33.0

But now we have a new series of episodes that we did together.

0:37.0

The theme of these episodes, good or bad.

0:40.0

Every episode will take on a big topic and try to figure out if it's good for the world or if it's bad for the world.

0:47.0

Like for instance, monogamy, good or bad or DNA tests or gambling or whatever.

0:54.0

You'll see all the things we have.

0:56.0

Right or the Olympics or this is AJ talking by the way.

1:01.0

Cars and kids.

1:03.0

I have kids. I love my kids.

1:05.0

But you know, they're downsides.

1:06.0

And that's they're downsides.

1:08.0

They're downsides. They hope they're not listening.

1:11.0

The point of the podcast of the, you know, the, the specials is that everything has costs and benefits and pros and cons, upsides and downsides.

1:20.0

And we need to be thinking more about the nuances instead of an absolute like, you know, this is terrible or this is good.

1:28.0

No, it's complicated. They're grace.

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