How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In a live-to-tape recording in Ed Zitron's living room, Wide Left writer Arif Hasan and Western Kabuki Host Caleb Wilson explain in detail the cultural power of sports, and how software has been used to poison every corner of sports with predatory gambling schemes.
The Athletic story on sports gambling: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5777632/2024/10/14/sports-betting-addiction-problem-fans/
Wide Left article about sports gambling:
https://www.wideleft.football/p/has-legalized-gambling-poisoned-the
Arif Hasan:
https://bsky.app/profile/arif.bsky.social
https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL
Wide Left: https://www.wideleft.football
Caleb Wilson:
https://bsky.app/profile/birdrespecter.bsky.social
Western Kabuki: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/western-kabuki/id1647062210
The 60 Minute Drill Podcast (Ed, Arif and Caleb’s NFL podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/60-minute-drill/id1768225605
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| 0:32.9 | Hello and welcome to better offline. I am am your host, Ed Zichol. |
| 0:47.5 | Better Online. |
| 0:50.4 | We are sitting in my living room, and we're going to talk about sports gambling today. Now, |
| 0:55.1 | sports gambling, we're focusing on the US because this is a US focus podcast. There is a hell |
| 0:59.7 | of a lot of weird shit in England where I grew up and in Europe at large with gambling. |
| 1:04.8 | We have to focus somewhere. We're going to focus on the US. Now, we are in my living room in |
| 1:08.9 | Las Vegas because it's the Super Bowl Sunday weekend. |
| 1:11.9 | That was a great sentence that we're keeping. But nevertheless, I have another podcast. |
| 1:15.7 | I have an NFL podcast, football podcast called The 60 Minut Drill, and I'm joined today by my |
| 1:20.1 | co-hosts on that podcast. To my left is Arefa San of Wide Left. Hello? And to my right is Caleb |
| 1:26.0 | Wilson of Western Kabuki. |
| 1:27.7 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:28.8 | Okay. |
| 1:29.8 | So the reason I wanted to focus on this is because those out, I know this is happening |
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