Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.

Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9th on the I Heart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

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In the 2019 movie Uncut Gems, Adam Sandler's character, Howard Ratner, exclaims, I made a risk, you gamble and it's about to pay off. For a lot of Americans, that's what a lot of the last month has been when March

Madness happened. It was about gambling, specifically online sports gambling, and that's what I

want to talk to about during this episode. According to the CBS News, $3 billion in wages were

placed in the last few weeks on the NCAA tournament. Online sports gambling has become a

revolutionized industry in the last half decade since the Supreme Court declared that the Professional Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, otherwise known as Paspa, was unconstitutional.

Signed by former president, George H.W. Bush, Paspa effectively outlawed sports gambling by corporations in most parts of the country, with exceptions of four states,

Nevada, Delaware, Oregon, and Massachusetts. Since the 2018 decision by the Supreme Court,

39 states have legalized sports gambling, with just Alabama, Alaska, California, Georgia, Hawaii,

Idaho, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah being the last holdouts of the sports gambling industry.

With the market open in a majority of the country, 35 different companies now operate sports

gambling, like Fandoul, Caesars, Draft King, those are the largest. And their primary target are

young men drawn to the industry. Well, how big is the industry? In 2024, more than $150 billion in bets were wagered. That's just in one year. That's not a big of the industry. Well, how big is the industry? In 2024, more than $150 billion in

best were wager. That's just in one year. That's larger than the GDP of Mississippi. Players are not

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