The Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins joins Audie to recount how he spent $10,000 of his employer’s money betting on sports. They discuss how online gambling reshaped his habits and what it reveals about a rapidly expanding industry.
0:00 An Atlantic writer describes his year of gambling
2:32 Before the experiment, gambling wasn’t tempting
5:34 Jumping into the deep end with company money
7:55 ‘What if I’m secretly a sports betting savant?’
11:13 History is full of gambling boom and bust cycles
15:05 What do sports leagues get out of sports betting?
17:37 Is gambling changing sports fandom?
20:30 How gambling fuels conspiratorial thinking
23:53 What’s it like to be unhinged?
28:32 Where is the societal backlash?
31:10 Lessons learned
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