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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I'm in that demographic.
Mostly when I'm watching a Lakers game, particularly when my wife is out of town and I've got nothing better to do.
I'm trying to liven up a night alone.
Exactly, like a lot of people.
It's a thing to do when you're bored and lonely.
I'll be honest with you, though, just hearing again and again and again how impossible it is to win, how these sportsbooks do everything they can to prevent you from coming out ahead long term, I've backed off a lot in the last year.
So a sportsbook is a company that takes bets.
They have bookmakers and oddsmakers and hundreds if not thousands of people who are dedicated to offering as many things as they can possibly think of on every sport in existence practically.
95 percent of this business is now conducted online.
So back in the day, this was an amenity to lure you into a casino, just like all-you-can-eat buffets or whatever.
It was, let's bring people in.
Hey, you can bet on sports, but hopefully you'll play some craps while you're here.
On your phone, predominantly.
And what are the big companies?
FanDuel and DraftKings control three quarters of the market.
The idea of legalization was that, among other things, this would install consumer protection so that you could – people have always been gambling.
Let's make sure you can do it fairly, get paid when you win, not get chased around town if you owe someone some money.
There's a lot of –
Exactly.
But just learning so much about how this business is done, you hear the word predatory again and again.
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