Danny Funt

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602 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 5 Feb

Danny Funt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 1/22/26: SCOTUS To Defeat Trump On Fed, DOGE Election Fraud, FanDuel Lies, MN Family Teargassed · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

And he sort of had ambivalence about, you know, he wants to help FanDuel make money, but is destroying customers at that rate really the right thing to be doing?

So a lot of revelations from all sorts of people around this field, but I'm particularly proud that

So many people within the industry wanted to speak up for this book.

Right.

So as much as the house always wins is such an axiom of the gambling business, there's something about sports betting where you think, I know my team or my league better than whoever's setting the odds.

I can outsmart them.

And the advertising from these companies totally reinforces that.

It's so on the nose that they're saying betting on sports is a way to make money.

Surveys of customers back that up.

And yet it goes beyond the house edge.

I remember speaking with someone who was an executive at a company that builds these micro bets.

So nowadays you can not only bet on who's going to win or even prop bets, like how many touchdowns will my favorite quarterback throw, but literally every play has become an opportunity for betting.

Will this play result in a score or not?

Things like that.

And this guy who's a micro betting executive said, we recognize that fans are predisposed to think positive outcomes will happen.

So you're going to hope your team scores more than you're going to hope they punt in a football game.

And we're going to shade the odds, as they put it, so that those positive outcomes pay out less.

And he sort of thought about it for a moment and said, we're kind of taxing the casuals.

with that shading.

And I just thought, man, the leagues and even these sports books have said betting is a way to enhance fandom.

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