Everything in America is Gambling Now

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we are sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!)

It feels like everything is a gamble these days, doesn’t it? That’s because, in many ways, it literally is. Sports betting, Wall Street speculation, crypto gambling, even loot boxes in video games—risk-taking has become a central part of American culture. When did we unknowingly turn the entire country into one giant casino?

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0:00.0	This is a Headgum podcast.
0:05.3	Well, the Super Bowl is almost here, and since the Eagles have brotherly shoved themselves into a rerun match with Taylor Swift's boyfriend, the only exciting thing we have to watch is the ads.
0:15.3	And you can bet that a lot of the ads this year are going to be for gambling.
0:19.4	You know, I can remember a time when gambling ads were considered too sleazy to be on
0:23.7	mainstream television.
0:24.9	Hell, the one time I took an ad for Draft Kings on my podcast a year or two ago, my own audience
0:29.8	gave me hell about it.
0:31.2	But now, everyone's getting on board.
0:33.4	They've got 80s comedians.
0:35.3	Their defense, unstoppable. 90s comedians. Their defense, unstoppable.
0:39.3	Nineties comedians.
0:41.5	At bet him gym, everyone gets a welcome off.
0:43.4	Even two thousand's comedians.
0:45.8	$200 instantly.
0:49.7	Yeah, you know if Kevin Hart tells me to bet, I'm not going to come up short.
0:51.9	It's a Kevin Hart joke.
0:56.6	Gambling has quickly become a part of mainstream American culture. Americans gambled over $67 billion in 2024, and these days it's not just sports.
1:02.6	You can bet on who's going to win the presidential election, play the slots on your phone,
1:06.6	blow your wad on a crypto meme coin, and even upload feetpicks to only fans and gamble with
1:12.1	whether or not Gim Gamble invite you to Thanksgiving next year.
1:15.0	And you do it all right here from your phone.
1:18.6	You know, in the old days if you want to blow your life savings, you had to go to the racetrack
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