Pushkin.

Hey, it's Alec Baldwin.

This past season on my podcast, Here's the Thing.

I spoke with more actors, musicians, policy makers, and so many other fascinating people, like writer and actor, Dan Aykroyd.

I love writing more than anything. You're left alone. You know, you do three hours in the morning,

you write three hours in the afternoon, go pick up a kid from school, and write at night,

and after nine hours, you come out with seven pages, and then you're moving on.

Listen to the new season of Here's the Thing starting January 28th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We're back, bringing this thing in for a landing.

I think we can now all agree as not just the law that changed

when the U.S. allowed states to legalize sports gambling back in 2018.

An entire region of the American brain has been wiped clean

and replaced with new software.

Somehow, sports gambling went from this slightly naughty activity you had to go out of your

way to engage in, to smack dab in the center of American culture.

It's very obviously overrun American colleges.

It's less obviously overrun American high schools, too.

What happened to one of my friends was that one of his friends tried to abandon this bookie,

and then he sent him his house addressed.

Oh, my God.

Which he'd never given to him.

He just tracked his IP address from how he was placing bets.

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