What Next TBD: Why Sports Are All in on Betting

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Out of the smoky backrooms, Vegas and clandestine dens, and straight to your phone—how did gambling on sports go from forbidden to inescapable seemingly overnight? Guest: John Holden, associate professor at Oklahoma State’s Spears school of business If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Check out AWS Insiders here: https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.whatnexttbd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, watch now.
0:28.1	Only on Prime Video.
0:33.6	The Penn's getting set for period number two in Colorado.
0:37.6	Penn's 12 games to go as they try to get into the playoffs.
0:40.9	And we're looking right now, drafting sports book odds, the avalanche, the favorites to win the West right now, plus 275.
0:47.1	It's not too late.
0:47.8	If you watch live sports these days, there is one thing that is always there.
0:53.5	I don't mean the athletes or the announcers
0:55.7	or the play-by-play, but betting.
0:58.5	You cannot watch TV without seeing betting ads.
1:01.4	You can't listen to the radio.
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