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Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Against the Rules: Fans

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

Pushkin Industries

Business, Society & Culture, Sports

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Against the Rules is going to Vegas (by way of New Jersey!). Host Michael Lewis bets high and low to find out how Americans, and their state governments, got addicted to a new form of legalized gambling. This season, we’ll meet bookies, lobbyists, lawyers and professional sharps. All in their own ways trying to figure out why fans might hitch their life savings to their favorite team’s performance.

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0:00.0

Pushkin. What is wrong with me? Why am I sitting around yelling at a television, getting gross and

0:19.2

disappointed and frustrated and mad? It's hard enough being a sports fan, the highs and lows, the weird

0:26.6

traditions, the cost of box seats or nosebleed seats, it gets more expensive year

0:32.3

after year and they know you'll pay because you're a

0:36.4

fan. Your team matters to your life. You wear their colors, you follow their dramas.

0:41.7

Would you bet your life on your team?

0:44.3

Well, now you can. I ended up with close to $60,000 bet on the Super Bowl. I still to this

0:53.5

this day I've never watched that game. I was too nervous.

0:56.0

Has it kind of played out as you imagined?

0:58.0

Bigger, bigger than I could have ever imagined.

1:01.0

Now everybody could just sit there on their couch betting in real time on games that are going on.

1:07.0

I'm Michael Lewis. In the next season of against the rules I'm going long on

1:14.7

sports betting America's new form of legalized gambling. It's changing what it means to

1:20.0

be a player. It's Just like a killer fungus.

1:23.2

You didn't see the Supreme Court decision coming.

1:25.8

Absolutely not.

1:27.2

I was totally blindsided.

1:29.7

Sports betting is changing the world of bookies too.

1:32.0

I'm bands from several sports books

1:33.6

throughout the country. I have to lie in what we call beards. I get the low down on

1:38.1

addiction. Gambling apps are praying on the gambler's total uncertainty about what they're going to get.

1:46.0

It sort of exceeds the capacity of the brain and you really just get caught in this flow.

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