Breaking the Deadlock: Gambling With Your Life — Open
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Experts, lawmakers, and industry voices collide over the explosive rise of online sports gambling.
Experts, lawmakers, and industry voices collide over the explosive rise of online sports gambling. From young users hooked on nonstop apps to new fights over AI, regulation, and responsibility, the debate reveals a fast‑changing world with real consequences. This scene sets the stage for a deeper look at an industry racing ahead of the rules.
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Funding for this program was provided in part by grants from The Rosalind P. Walter Foundation and by a grant from Anne Ray Foundation and by contributions from viewers like you. Thank you. Location furnished by The New York Historical.
Breaking the Deadlock: Gambling With Your Life — Open
Preview: Season 2026 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Experts, lawmakers, and industry voices collide over the explosive rise of online sports gambling. From young users hooked on nonstop apps to new fights over AI, regulation, and responsibility, the debate reveals a fast‑changing world with real consequences. This scene sets the stage for a deeper look at an industry racing ahead of the rules.
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In our brave new world of online sports gambling.
Why do you feel so compelled to gamble as a way to get rich?
We're talking about teenage boys with undeveloped brains.
Young people more addicted to these platforms than ever before.
No longer did they have to go to the casino.
They got one in their pocket.
The legalization of sports gambling just in the last few years has been unlike anything we've ever seen.
We could have guardrails or we could have blindfolds.
Blindfolds is pretending that gambling does not exist.
We don't want to profit on the backs of problem gamblers.
Brother, please.
The FanFuels of the world would not exist but for their biggest losing customers.
You're paying for the price of entertainment.
AI is going to change everything about the way that people predict sports events.
It doesn't sound good to me at all.
I'm not buying it.
I love the prediction market.
This is where our gambling universe is headed.
I think we should stop calling it prediction markets.
It's sports gambling.
They are actually lobbying against my efforts to protect consumers.
You keep your federal hands off my state legislation.
Well, with all due respect, governor, no.
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