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Monday Mini: Gender Differences in Gambling · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I wont for stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I never told you a prodiction if I heard you,
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to another edition of Monday Mini. Today we
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  Speaker 1: are talking about gambling addiction and gambling disorder, so content
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  Speaker 1: warning for that. This has also been something we need
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  Speaker 1: to come back to as a bigger episode. We've been
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  Speaker 1: meaning to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: This for a while. This is on our list.
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  Speaker 1: This has been on our list. So this is just
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  Speaker 1: a brief overview because I was thinking about it because
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  Speaker 1: we had this huge power ball jackpot here in the US,
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  Speaker 1: which is just about the only time I gamble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie any can I tell you?
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  Speaker 2: So in this last month, I've spent probably about thirty
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  Speaker 2: dollars in different lottery things and I've won ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good for you.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm like, do I keep playing? I'm having This
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  Speaker 2: is how people get cooked, isn't it? Isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, but that's pretty good. I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: most I mean I did I also played the slots
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  Speaker 1: Like by that, I mean like I'll bet twenty bucks
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  Speaker 1: at most over several days in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: I'll never spend more than twenty at a time. If
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  Speaker 2: that usually is ten, I cap at ten.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I I have a cat. That's it's one
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  Speaker 1: time I did win a thousand bucks. It's pretty sweet.
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  Speaker 2: I made a sixty dollars five dollars profit. My partner
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  Speaker 2: keeps laughing at maybe that rhetoric.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's fair, it's fair. And also I pretty
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  Speaker 1: pretty much just paid off my trip with the one
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars, so it's not I didn't feel like I
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  Speaker 1: actually won that much, even though I did. It was
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  Speaker 1: very useful, but it kind of just went back into
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  Speaker 1: the trip. But anyway, I have recently seen a huge
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  Speaker 1: uptick in ads for things like DraftKings, and I have
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  Speaker 1: to say, we get a lot of ad request for
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  Speaker 1: these types of things.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 1: Also, my mom reminded me that we were moving into
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  Speaker 1: football season. I totally forgot so football, fantasy football, big
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  Speaker 1: vetting time. So yeah, we thought we would do a
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  Speaker 1: quick rundown on gender differences in gambling. Though, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to come back and do a full
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  Speaker 1: episode because it involves a lot more than we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get into today. Oh my goodness. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: the APA defines gambling disorder like this gambling disorder is
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  Speaker 1: categorized as a behavioral addiction characterized by recurrent and persistent
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  Speaker 1: gambling behavior, which produces emotional distress and leads to economic, social,
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  Speaker 1: and legal problems. Problem gambling or compulsive gambling can have
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  Speaker 1: devastating ramifications, from homelessness to financial ruin, to domestic violence
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  Speaker 1: to suicide, and yet for a long time, research has
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  Speaker 1: ignored how this type of gambling might impact women. Public
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  Speaker 1: perceptions have long painted men as the gamblers, and that
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  Speaker 1: is slowly starting to change, and not always for the better,
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  Speaker 1: as in, we're seeing we're getting the full, fuller picture,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not pretty. A twenty thirteen study found that
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  Speaker 1: problem gambling rates had doubled amongst those eighteen to twenty
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  Speaker 1: five in the US, so about seven to eleven percent
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  Speaker 1: of that age range. That same study found that men
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  Speaker 1: were more likely to take risk and get themselves in
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  Speaker 1: hot water when it came to gambling. They also found
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  Speaker 1: it was related to things like substance abuse, masculinity, and machismo.
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  Speaker 1: So it was sort of like, I'm hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: my friends, I want to show that I'm not afraid
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  Speaker 1: of this, and I'm going to bet of note we've
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about this before. Things like slot
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  Speaker 1: machines are designed to be addictive, like they have done
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  Speaker 1: their science about how it sets off these areas in
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  Speaker 1: your brain. So that's a thing. However, recently the numbers
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  Speaker 1: have shifted are been more studied, probably especially when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to older women and gambling. A recent small study
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  Speaker 1: highlighted childhood abuse, maladaptive coping strategies, family members, So family
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  Speaker 1: members introducing you to gambling, and accessibility to discrete apps
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  Speaker 1: or methods of gambling for the perceived drives or at
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  Speaker 1: least what we're now seeing, because again it wasn't well studied.
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  Speaker 1: Of women and gambling, studies from twenty eighteen indicate that
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  Speaker 1: the starting aged gambling between genders is about the same
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  Speaker 1: and that women are catching up to men when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to gambling percentages. This study recounted a few other
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  Speaker 1: gender differences. Women prefer things like bingo. The bingo is
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that they outpace men in.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, I've never thought of bingo as gambling, but I
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  Speaker 2: guess it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, slot machines. They prefer slot machines, while men prefer
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  Speaker 1: things usually in person. Things like card games are sports betting,
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  Speaker 1: while men see it as a way to win money
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  Speaker 1: or socialize prove their manhood. Generally speaking, all this is
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, Women use it more often as maladaptive coping
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  Speaker 1: or as a way to distract themselves or make themselves
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  Speaker 1: feel better. Since gambling is stigmatized for women more so
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  Speaker 1: than men at least, it also may keep them from
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  Speaker 1: seeking treatment or even recognizing that they have a problem
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  Speaker 1: at all. When women do seek help, they are less
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  Speaker 1: likely to receive family support than men other than women
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  Speaker 1: in their lives, and some of the quotes from this
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  Speaker 1: study were damning, Like I was flown away by what
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  Speaker 1: some of the participants said, Like some of them were saying,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the truth that women are more responsible for
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  Speaker 1: the home for children and more likely to be blamed,
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  Speaker 1: more shamed than men, and less likely to be supported
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  Speaker 1: by their male partner. So they like one woman was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm expected to support him in everything if he has
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  Speaker 1: a gambling problem. I had to support him when I
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  Speaker 1: had something, he was not there for me and instead
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  Speaker 1: was angry and ashamed of me. It was really bad.
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  Speaker 1: And it's almost like by when I was reading this study,
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  Speaker 1: it was almost like gambling was so male coded and
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  Speaker 1: caregiving was so female coded that a woman with a
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  Speaker 1: gambling problem is perceived as far worse on multiple scales
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  Speaker 1: because she's letting down her family. Swedish numbers found that
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  Speaker 1: women with compulsive gambling have increased and that they are
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  Speaker 1: less likely to seek help than men. Recent numbers out
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  Speaker 1: of Victoria, Australia indicate that about fifty one percent of
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  Speaker 1: women gamble, compared to fifty six percent of men. A
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  Speaker 1: separate Australian study found that women were also gambling regular early.
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  Speaker 1: About twenty three percent reported gambling once a week. The
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  Speaker 1: UK recently reported about a million women were at risk
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  Speaker 1: for gambling disorder and clearly all of this is underreported
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  Speaker 1: by the way. It's clear that this is stigmatized and
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  Speaker 1: there are a few complications in reporting on this because
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  Speaker 1: a UK another UK study found that when they removed
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  Speaker 1: lotteries like the powerball for instance, No, that's not what
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  Speaker 1: they have, but the percentage of women gamblers have Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So it's like hard to get down to the nitty
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  Speaker 1: gritty of it of what's going on, but whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: companies have taken notice. They realized that they were neglecting
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  Speaker 1: this demographic and they have stepped in. They have stepped in.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the ways we're seeing a lack of
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  Speaker 1: regulation does involve the ads, and several of the ads
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  Speaker 1: these days do target women. DraftKings is no joke running
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  Speaker 1: a tailor's themed ad with two women. FanDuel has one
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  Speaker 1: that is outright, like, women are tired of never being
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  Speaker 1: invited to play fantasy football, so if we should play.
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  Speaker 1: Some companies back women's sports and International Women's Day. I
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  Speaker 1: was reading today about how some of them like help
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  Speaker 1: pay for public transit air in here stadiums, like they're
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  Speaker 1: making moves. They're making moves, and several women reported the
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  Speaker 1: ease of social gambling and technology, so they were saying
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  Speaker 1: that now that it's easier and I can kind of
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  Speaker 1: do it in private, that's one of the reasons that
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  Speaker 1: they do it more often. And that they also said
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  Speaker 1: the ads that they consumed as introducing them to gambling
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  Speaker 1: was one of the reasons they got into it. Women
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  Speaker 1: influencers on TikTok or Instagram have also been cited as
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  Speaker 1: promoting gambling easy payment methods, a variety of games, so
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  Speaker 1: there's a huge variety that you can play. A few
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  Speaker 1: Other studies also cited the rise in visibility in women's sports,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm like, yeah, that's We're gonna have to unpack
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that later. Yeah. There's also been recent
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  Speaker 1: reporting on how women in sports are facing increasing abuse
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  Speaker 1: online because of gambling and lost bets. Like several women
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  Speaker 1: in sports have come out and said I'm getting harassed
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  Speaker 1: online and a lot of it is about how someone
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  Speaker 1: lost a bet. Here's a quote from the BBC. Flutter,
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  Speaker 1: the gambling operator which runs Patty Power, said that twenty
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  Speaker 1: four percent of all bets placed through its FANDUL brand
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  Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty four Olympic Games in Paris we're
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  Speaker 1: on women's events, with sixty percent of football bets placed
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  Speaker 1: on women's matches and seventy nine percent of gymnastics bets
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  Speaker 1: on women's events. And people bet on everything, They bet
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  Speaker 1: on everything, and this industry just makes a ton of money.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking billions of dollars. And this is a whole
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  Speaker 1: thing were I said, We're going to have to come
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  Speaker 1: back to it. More research is needed. There were so
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  Speaker 1: many different rabbit holes and thoughts about why this is
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  Speaker 1: happening that just deserve more space than a Monday many
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  Speaker 1: so we shall come back, but in the meantime that's
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  Speaker 1: an overview of what is going on here. Listeners. If
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