Tonya Mosley

It's available on The Atlantic's website today and is the cover story of the magazine's April issue.

And McKay Coppins, welcome to Fresh Air.

Thanks for having me.

Well, what a title, first of all, which we will get into.

But, you know, what was so interesting about this experiment is not only the experiment itself, but that you are a Mormon, which means that gambling is off limits.

And yet here you are doing this experiment.

What made you want to spend a season doing this?

Well, we're going to get into the outcome of this experiment.

I'm going to make the audience wait to hear whether you had any winnings.

But I want to go inside of the experiment.

So you've got this $10,000.

It is the beginning of the NFL game season.

And you've downloaded these apps.

DraftKings is one.

It's one of the biggest online sports betting apps in the country.

How did you decide what to bet on and where?

Yeah, I mean, he actually looked at your first week of bet slips and immediately said to you, oh, no.

That makes me so nervous.

Well, McKay, I mean, that is the psychology of gambling.

We always feel like we might be the lucky one.