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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Are we seeing that?
Yes.
So many educators I talk to say they're panicked at how suddenly preoccupied with gambling.
Kids as young as elementary school are, if you can believe that.
In college, 20% of students dip into tuition funds to fund their bets.
And I spoke with an expert in this named Jeffrey Derevinsky.
who specializes in youth problem gambling, and he pointed out that one of the dangers of gambling versus drug addiction or other things where you can kind of tell quickly if someone has a problem, typically with gambling it can take years for a problem to take shape.
Why is that?
I've spoken with so many problem gamblers in recovery who say, I was fine until I suddenly won $10,000, and I spent every day chasing not only that money but that feeling, and that is so dangerous.
Yes, particularly after those arrests in the NBA and Major League Baseball.
The House and Senate sent letters to Adam Silver saying, please help us make sense of what you're doing so that more of this doesn't happen.
Brian Schatz, the Democrat from Hawaii in the Senate, recently proposed regulating prop bets.
A New York assembly member has proposed banning live betting, which now makes up more than half of betting activity is placed during games.
Whether there will be a bill in Congress that reaches the president's desk, I wouldn't bet on it anytime soon.
It's hard for anything to pass, obviously.
But people like Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have really made— The senator from Connecticut, yeah.
Yes, have said this is so out of hand and the industry is so brazen in what they're doing to defy just common sense of what's fair for customers.
The federal government needs to weigh in.
Danny Fund, thank you so much.
My pleasure.
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