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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About $150 billion are wagered every year.
Just last November, New York set a record with more than $2 billion wagered in the state of New York alone.
It's hard to wrap your head around those numbers.
Who's gambling?
Mostly young men.
That's the target demo, 21 to 34.
It's hard to know exactly how many people total are betting.
I've seen like 30% is a good ballpark.
No, of Americans, of age Americans.
Absolutely.
The NFL is king.
All the major sports.
I mean, even in Colorado, where I used to live, when it was legalized during the pandemic, most sports were shuttered.
And all they could bet on was Eastern European table tennis.
And they continue to bet millions of dollars every month.
I guess they got hooked on ping pong.
That's fair.
I hope you'll trust that I didn't have that title locked in as I started this.
It was a realization of talking to hundreds of people, mainly in the industry, and seeing how they think about their customers, how they think about their business, left that impression that not only are we losing a staggering amount of money, as we were just talking about, but the credibility of sports, the integrity of sports, the independence of sports journalism, the list goes on.
Yeah, there's a stat that about half of people who bet, they admit that they're not honest about how much they bet and how often they bet.
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