Welcome to the favorites, the podcast part of the action network. I am Chad

Melman, Chief Content Officer of the action network. I am joined as I am for

every episode by my BFF, my companion, my compadre, professional better, joining

me on the favorites presented by bet three six five Simon Hunter. Hello, so I'm in

Chad, another sports weekend, another weekend of drama. I got to hear your take on

this whole shams fandal thing. How do you view these insiders working for sports

books nowadays? Is it something you agree with? There's it like, I don't know about this

walking a fine line here, hand it out information, moving numbers. And it is it's a lot of people

asking us how we view this. I would love to hear your view on it. It's a it's a great

question. You know what's interesting? And maybe I I was either blind to it, a nerd to

it wasn't paying enough attention, but it didn't even occur to me. Me, honestly, like

didn't even think about it. I don't think I don't think there was anything nefarious going

on. I don't see shams as a guy who is in the betting community. I see shams as a guy who

is a newsbreaker who was connected. And there is a sort of strange combination of worlds

that are still coming together and people are still trying to figure out where the lines

are being drawn. When it comes to operators who want to acquire customers and also want

to be media businesses, media personalities who want to cash in on betting and go where

they can make a big ticket and do what they do and using their platforms. Shams has a

big Twitter platform to do what they do. I think this was one of the first instances where

we saw in real time what is dangerous about it. I don't think anyone was doing anything

to move numbers or to benefit an operator, but I'm glad I'm glad Harala Bob Volgeris,

Bob Volgeris, he's the one who brought it up on Twitter and then den reviled it a story about

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