Danny Funt
speaker
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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burnt reputation as this defiant truth teller when John Day Porter was arrested or when other games that I know he cares a lot about were exposed to have fixing scandals.
He's very, you know, kind of tongue tied and, you know, really watching his words in a way that he doesn't typically.
And I think it's because FanDuel is one of his biggest sponsors.
And that's true of so much of the media.
And just lastly, I'll quote a former ESPN reporter named Henry Abbott, who said, when you think about all that, sports media is really being bribed by all this advertising dollars.
The bribe is, we'll give you millions and millions of dollars.
And in exchange, don't say anything that would either embarrass these sports books or embarrass the leagues for partnering with them and profiting so handsomely from this betting explosion.
We're seeing addiction rates rise.
The expectation for a long time had been that about one or maybe even 2% of the population is prone to a gambling problem.
In states that have legalized it, health experts believe it's closer to six or 8% among young men who are the target demo, it's much higher.
As bad as that is, and I tell some really heartbreaking stories in the book of the most ordinary people
who seem like they're smart and know about sports and wouldn't get themselves down that road.
I also think that people can hear addiction stories and say, well, that doesn't apply to me.
That's sad, but I don't have a gambling problem.
And what we're seeing is such pervasive rates of problematic gambling, even if you don't have a clinically diagnosable problem.
And what I mean by that is,
A third of gamblers saying they've felt ashamed after how much money they've lost.
Half of gamblers saying they've lost money and then bet and bet and bet to try to make up for it, what's called chasing losses, a telltale sign of a gambling problem.
Half of sports bettors admit to that.
Wow.
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