WEBVTT - Against the Rules: Fans

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin, What is wrong with me?

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<v Speaker 2>Why am I sitting around yelling at a television getting

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<v Speaker 2>gross and disappointed and frustrated and bad.

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<v Speaker 3>It's hard enough being a sports fan. The highs and lows,

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<v Speaker 3>the weird traditions, the cost of box seats.

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<v Speaker 4>Or nosebleed seats.

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<v Speaker 3>It gets more expensive year after year, and they know

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<v Speaker 3>you'll pay because you're a fan. Your team matters to

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<v Speaker 3>your life. You wear their colors, you follow their dramas.

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<v Speaker 3>Would you bet your life on your team?

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<v Speaker 4>Well now you can.

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<v Speaker 3>I ended up with close to sixty thousand dollars bet

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<v Speaker 3>on the Super Bowl.

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<v Speaker 4>I still to this day, I have never watched that game.

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<v Speaker 4>I was too nervous. Has it kind of played out

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<v Speaker 4>as you imagined? Bigger, bigger than I could have ever imagined.

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<v Speaker 3>Now everybody could just sit there on their couch betting

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<v Speaker 3>in real time on games that are going on. I'm

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<v Speaker 3>Michael Lewis in the next season of Against the Rules.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm going along on sports betting, America's new form of

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<v Speaker 3>legalized gambling.

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<v Speaker 4>It's changing what it means to be a player, just

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<v Speaker 4>like a killer fung gos.

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<v Speaker 3>You didn't see the Supreme Court decision coming absolutely not.

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<v Speaker 4>I was totally blindsided. Sports betting is changing the world

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<v Speaker 4>of bookies too.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm bans from several sports books throughout the country.

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<v Speaker 4>I have to rely on what we call beards. I

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<v Speaker 4>get the lowdown on addiction.

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<v Speaker 3>Gambling acts are preying on the gambler's total uncertainty about

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<v Speaker 3>what they're going to get.

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<v Speaker 2>It sort of exceeds the capacity of the brain, and

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<v Speaker 2>you really just get caught in this flow.

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<v Speaker 3>Most of all, I want to understand what the rise

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<v Speaker 3>of sports betting is doing to us as fans.

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<v Speaker 5>One lady said that the night before her football team's games,

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<v Speaker 5>for good luck, she makes her husband make love to

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<v Speaker 5>her wearing the team's jersey and socks and the team's colors.

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<v Speaker 3>And if that doesn't make your own socks go up

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<v Speaker 3>and down, I'm roaming America placing my own bets.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a calm better I'm not going to cheer. I

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<v Speaker 2>got ice war in my veins. I just care about

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<v Speaker 2>my process. It's pulling my bets out of my ass.

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<v Speaker 2>That's my process.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, it happened. Oh no, I lost? How

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<v Speaker 1>did this happen?

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<v Speaker 4>Against the rules?

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<v Speaker 3>Season four drop, September twenty fourth, and you can bet

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