Speaker 1: Pushkin, What is wrong with me?
Speaker 2: Why am I sitting around yelling at a television getting
Speaker 2: gross and disappointed and frustrated and bad.
Speaker 3: It's hard enough being a sports fan. The highs and lows,
Speaker 3: the weird traditions, the cost of box seats.
Speaker 4: Or nosebleed seats.
Speaker 3: It gets more expensive year after year, and they know
Speaker 3: you'll pay because you're a fan. Your team matters to
Speaker 3: your life. You wear their colors, you follow their dramas.
Speaker 3: Would you bet your life on your team?
Speaker 4: Well now you can.
Speaker 3: I ended up with close to sixty thousand dollars bet
Speaker 3: on the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: I still to this day, I have never watched that game.
Speaker 4: I was too nervous. Has it kind of played out
Speaker 4: as you imagined? Bigger, bigger than I could have ever imagined.
Speaker 3: Now everybody could just sit there on their couch betting
Speaker 3: in real time on games that are going on. I'm
Speaker 3: Michael Lewis in the next season of Against the Rules.
Speaker 3: I'm going along on sports betting, America's new form of
Speaker 3: legalized gambling.
Speaker 4: It's changing what it means to be a player, just
Speaker 4: like a killer fung gos.
Speaker 3: You didn't see the Supreme Court decision coming absolutely not.
Speaker 4: I was totally blindsided. Sports betting is changing the world
Speaker 4: of bookies too.
Speaker 1: I'm bans from several sports books throughout the country.
Speaker 4: I have to rely on what we call beards. I
Speaker 4: get the lowdown on addiction.
Speaker 3: Gambling acts are preying on the gambler's total uncertainty about
Speaker 3: what they're going to get.
Speaker 2: It sort of exceeds the capacity of the brain, and
Speaker 2: you really just get caught in this flow.
Speaker 3: Most of all, I want to understand what the rise
Speaker 3: of sports betting is doing to us as fans.
Speaker 5: One lady said that the night before her football team's games,
Speaker 5: for good luck, she makes her husband make love to
Speaker 5: her wearing the team's jersey and socks and the team's colors.
Speaker 3: And if that doesn't make your own socks go up
Speaker 3: and down, I'm roaming America placing my own bets.
Speaker 2: I'm a calm better I'm not going to cheer. I
Speaker 2: got ice war in my veins. I just care about
Speaker 2: my process. It's pulling my bets out of my ass.
Speaker 2: That's my process.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it happened. Oh no, I lost? How
Speaker 1: did this happen?
Speaker 4: Against the rules?
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