David Cohn (guest / Crane & Company)

100%.

If you look at that money as if it's entertainment, like you're paying to go to a ball game, I agree with you 100% on that.

And look, you're tapping into things that we have these serious conversations here on Craning Company, and we've had them with you, which is there are some times where you have Daily Wire members who don't necessarily have any respect or any tolerance for the concept of gambling.

But I like the analogy that you use with alcohol.

Some people

don't touch alcohol at all.

Some people don't gamble at all.

Some people engage with alcohol use recreationally and don't have a problem.

And then there are some people who cannot be near alcohol and they cannot gamble at all because they have a serious problem.

And we try on a daily basis, reach out to those people and say, hey, this is not for you if you are putting your family in jeopardy.

But the more serious side of this is a player, you know, actually participating in on court game fixing.

And Ben, I just worry.

I just worry that this is not going away.

Obviously, the NFL had a situation two years ago that was much less egregious where you had players simply gambling on other teams.

But because they're all friends and they have inside information on who may play or who may not play, the NFL did crack down on that hard, even though there was no evidence that they were necessarily throwing games or altering their performance at all.

And you saw a situation where Calvin Ridley, for instance, wide receiver,

was suspended for an entire year.

Or Jamison Williams, wide receiver for the Lions, I think was suspended for roughly half a year.

So the NFL came down hard on that.

I think we're going to see more and more instances like this.