- Why do people wager?

Why do young men wager?

Why do I wager?

I'm sure there's folks that are out there that like, oh man, I wanna make the money.

This is how I'm gonna make the money.

And there's some like, really brilliant, like people from like, you know, MIT who's got like these like algorithms and they're making the money, but like the average Joe Schmo, like me and all of us, how, why are we wagering?

You know why?

Because if I put a dollar on the Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints who are two (bleeped!)

teams that I wouldn't watch for a second of my day, but I've got a dollar on that game, you bet your ass.

I'm watching it.

Right?

So this is why people gamble.

And on my radio show, I tell people when I talk about gambling, I'm gonna tell you what to put money down.

I tell people, don't wager what you can't afford to throw down your toilet.

Because more than not, you're gonna lose.

But what are you paying for?

You're paying for the price of entertainment.

It is more entertaining to watch a game, whether it's football, basketball, baseball, when you have money on the game than when you do not.

That's, that's what Gambling's supposed to be.

But I think what we're seeing here is that's not what gambling is.

It's supposed to be about having fun and entertainment.

That's the whole point of it.

But that's not what we're experiencing in this scenario.

We're experiencing actual degradation of someone's mental health, possibly the potential of suicide.

That's what, that's not what we're seeing on the ground in these gambling scenarios.

- We're talking about teenage boys with undeveloped brains.

Who, who, yes, Jeremy has already gone down the path, but there's a lot of boys that haven't yet, and they're just starting to in, in their, in their voyage of self discovery as their high schoolers and their college age kids.

And I don't know that they're gonna immediately delve into the black market, but what we need to do is limit all of this Disney-fication of gambling.