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Welcome to the favorites, the podcast from the Vol. Podcast Network. I am Chad Millman. I am Chief Content Officer of the Action Network.

We are a sports media business that focuses entirely on serving the ever growing and interested sports betting universe research data analysis picks all of it available for free in the award-winning action network app.

One of those experts that we feature in the app in our analysis all throughout the action network universe, my BFF, my compadre, my companion, professional better Simon Hunter. Welcome to the show.

We're not talking about New Jersey cross $1 billion in bets last month. New Jersey crossed $1 billion in betting handle in the month of September. The first time any state has done that.

I'm assuming 80 to 90% of that is from you. Fantastic. Congratulations on being so flush and having such a fat bankroll. It is an astonishing number. You're right to bring it up. It's the first time that's ever happened.

That is never done it. Nevada is a mature market. Been around for 50 years. New Jersey's been around for three. Yeah. I like to say Vegas is the amateur New Jersey. You know, it's if you want to be a real sports better, you got to get to New Jersey.

And I got laughed out the room and I said that three years ago. Now look at us, man, a billion dollars on one month bet Las Vegas never could.

You know, it's interesting years and years ago, we've often talked about scoots Bob scootsie, who is a bookmaker for boy gaming and used to be the bookmaker for the start of the hotel, which is part of the boy gaming property.

I wrote my book, the odds scoots about guys who bet on sports for living in Las Vegas. Scoots was a primary character in that. He was the co host of this podcast before Simon had him eliminated.

And he once told me for a story, I was in Las Vegas doing a story for e60 on TV for ESPN. And I asked him, what happens of sports betting is legalized? Is that good for Vegas or bad for Vegas? And he said, it's great.

And there's going to be more people betting, more people understanding it. And they're all going to want to come to Vegas to do it even more because it's like Disneyland for betting. And you kind of just said that like well, New Jersey has clearly overtaken Vegas is sort of the sports betting capital of the world.

Vegas is still a place people want to go to like visit and do it with friends. It's like it is, it is like the Disneyland and betting.

Yeah, New Jersey is all business. I think 900 million of our bets were online. Like that's just different. That's very different than Vegas. And we don't have some giant pool bar outside sports book.

Like we're like lacking a lot of those things. We have like these little corner office sports books in New Jersey. So it's definitely different where yet kind of have to go to the books in Vegas to make these bets and get money down.

New Jersey a lot of these people just do it from their couch and then every go they've never even been inside a sports book. So it is much different than it used to be.

Well, sports betting is now online in Connecticut. There are three books in which you can bet because Connecticut fucked it up and couldn't actually do it the right way. So there's only three books as opposed to the dozens of books you can bet on in New Jersey.

One of those books is Fandall and who is our sponsor and I say this not because they are a sponsor, but I signed up for all three books. Fandall I was able to get verified as being a resident of the state and being located in the state.

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