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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

It's a Gamble

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8922 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Four weeks, four new episodes. Starting Tuesday, October 9th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:05.1

First, the bad news.

0:07.0

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0:11.8

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0:21.7

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0:27.2

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0:43.8

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0:50.1

In 2014, the average Singaporean lost around $1,000 US to gaming, a grand per average adult, the whole countrywide,

1:00.0

which made Singapore's gambling problem the second worst in the world, losing out only to Australia.

1:06.0

So that year, the National Council on Problem Gaming launched an ad campaign to curtail the issue.

1:12.5

The slogan read, often the people who suffer from gambling aren't the gamblers.

1:18.9

The ad itself features two boys sitting on soccer balls in a field. One is saying,

1:25.7

I hope Germany wins. My dad bet all my savings on them. A reference to that

1:31.0

year's World Cup game. But here's the problem. Germany did win. This is the constant, a history of

1:42.6

getting things wrong. I'm Mark Chrysler.

1:45.6

How you doing?

1:46.3

You holding up?

1:47.4

I missed you.

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