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Presented by Bridge Bank. Be bold. Venture wisely. I'm Dan Permack. On today's show, YouTube promises to play nicer with kids and a possible political battle over the Bahamas.

But first,

So the 2019 National Football League season kicks off tonight with the Green Bay Packers battling the Chicago Bears.

And for lots of Americans, that means it's time to begin wagering.

To be more specific, a new morning consult poll shows that 15% of Americans, that means it's time to begin wagering. To be more specific, a new morning

consult poll shows that 15% of American adults plan to bet on a game this upcoming season,

and that number rises to 24% of American adults who would bet on a game if only it were

legal and convenient to do so in their states. So quick caveat here, yes, the survey was done

on behalf of the American Gaming Association, but even if you cut the results in half, it is a massive

number and enabled by a May 2018 Supreme Court decision that said states could allow sports

betting if they wanted to. So far, 17 states have done so, a bit of a slower pace than some expected,

but still significant, particularly given the large populations in some places like New York and

Pennsylvania. So a lot of that betting will be done the old-fashioned way via in-person sports

books. But a lot of it will also be done via smartphones, as many of those 17 states now allow

mobile app-based betting, which is offered

by a number of gaming and tech companies, sometimes in partnership with one another, including

well-known fantasy sports betting sites, Draft Kings, and Fanduel. The bottom line, we don't yet know

who will win the Super Bowl, but we do know that the House doesn't plan to lose. In 15 seconds,

we'll go deeper with Draft King's CEO Jason

Robbins. But first, this. The Equity Fund Resources Group at Bridgebank is a central hub for

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